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.
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.
ThinkIR Citation
Berriman, G. Bruce; Good, John C.; and Holwerda, Benne, "TESS as a Low-surface-brightness Observatory: Cutouts from Wide-area Coadded Images" (2021). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 831.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/831
DOI
10.3847/2515-5172/ac0fe2
ORCID
0000-0002-4884-6756
Comments
© 2021. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.