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Introduction
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ESBO-ETC aims on modelling the physical aspect of light coming from a target through optical components
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(e.g. atmosphere, mirrors, lenses, ...) onto the detector. The set up of this so called optical pipeline can be
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individually defined using a configuration file. Additionally, the thermal emission of optical components, the
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obstruction of components as well as different PSFs including pointing jitter can be considered.
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Finally, ESBO-ETC allows the computation of either the necessary exposure time for a desired SNR, the SNR for a given
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exposure time or, in case of a BlackBodyTarget, the sensitivity as the minimum apparent magnitude for a given exposure
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time and SNR. All computations support a batch-mode, allowing to compute multiple set ups at once.
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