Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2021

Department

Physics and Astronomy

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.

Comments

© 2021. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Original Publication Information

G. Bruce Berriman et al. "TESS as a Low-surface-brightness Observatory: Cutouts from Wide-area Coadded Images." 2021 Research Notes of the AAS 5(7): 1-5.

DOI

10.3847/2515-5172/ac0fe2

ORCID

0000-0002-4884-6756

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