Introduction

This section describes the data products for the SIM level-1 VIS, NISP-S and NISP-P.

In the SIM Splitted pipeline, the focal plane simulation is split per detector. Every simulator Processing Function implements 3 Processing Element with suffixes

• Split to split the catalogues, and produce detector specific internal configuration files

• Detector to simulate a detector image

• Combine to combine the detector images and metadata into a LE1 data product

In addition, there is a Processing Element without a suffix, that simulates all the detectors at once.

Depending on the simulator, the input data products are

• Vis Input Configuration Product

• Nip Input Configuration Product

• Nis Input Configuration Product

• Ext Input Configuration Product

In addition, all simulators ingest the following data products

• True Universe Output Product with the metadata and link to the galaxy, star and SSO catalogues

• Mission Data Base with the telescope and instrument model, environment data

All simulators produce a focal plane image split per detector in a multi-extension FITS file. The output data products are

• Vis Raw Frame Product for VIS

• NISP Raw Frame Product for NIS and NIP