Processing simulated data

The processing of simulated data proceeds exactly as for real SCUBA-2 data and depends on the observing mode. See the respective workflows in Sections and above. Note that dark frames are not produced by the simulator and do not need to be included in any processing (there is no drift in the model bolometer response).

FOCUS observations are designed to be processed by the ORAC-DR pipeline rather than SMURF, as their analysis involves multiple steps. POINTING observations are equivalent to short science observations and should be processed in the same way.