The Gaia System Simulator (GASS) is part of the Gaia Simulator. It shares a common structure with the Gaia Instrument and Basic Image Simulator (GIBIS). GASS is designed to simulate the telemetry stream of the Gaia mission according to the GDAAS (Gaia Data Access and Analysis Study) specifications, modelling the astronomical objects and instruments. This telemetry stream provides realistic data for several purposes, such as filling the test data base of GDAAS, test of algorithms (e.g., cross-matching, telemetry compression, ...) and reduction software, or evaluation of the mission performances. GASS is developed in Java.
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