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TESS as a Low-surface-brightness Observatory: Cutouts from Wide-area Coadded Images
Abstract We present a mosaic of those co-added Full Frame Images acquired by the TESS satellite that had been released in 2020 April. The mosaic shows substantial stray light over the sky. Yet over spatial scales of a few degrees, the background appears uniform. This result indicates that TESS has considerable potential as a Low Surface Brightness Observatory. The co-added images are freely available as a High Level Science Product (HLSP) at MAST and accessible through a Jupyter Notebook.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1835379
- PAR ID:
- 10315094
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Research Notes of the AAS
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 7
- ISSN:
- 2515-5172
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ac0fe2
