iDiffuse: on-sky photometric precisions with diffusers

Welcome to the iDiffuse documentation, a Python package to calculate expected diffuser-assisted photometric precisions from the ground.

iDiffuse is currently heavily focused on calculating the diffuser-assisted photometric precision of ARCTIC on the ARC 3.5m Telescope at Apache Point Observatory.

However, iDiffuse is written in a way that it is easy to modify and calculate diffuser-assisted photometric precisions for other telescopes.

Contents:

• Installation
• Getting Started
• Sizing Diffusers
• (Coming soon!) Extending iDiffuse for other telescopes

More information on diffusers

Take a look at the following discussions for further discussion on diffusers for high precision photometry applications:

• More about diffusers on this website
• Paper I
• Paper II