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Tess As A Low-Surface-Brightness Observatory: Cutouts From Wide-Area Coadded Images, G. Bruce Berriman, John C. Good, Benne Holwerda
Tess As A Low-Surface-Brightness Observatory: Cutouts From Wide-Area Coadded Images, G. Bruce Berriman, John C. Good, Benne Holwerda
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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.