/TESSphomo

TESS PHOtomoeter MOdeler

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TESSphomo

The TESS PHOtometer MOdeler -- An Accessible tool for Extracting Corrected Aperture- and PRF-based Light Curves from TESS Full Frame Images.

Also availabe in this package:

  • Use the TESS PRF, a TargetPixelFile, and a TIC query to calculate crowding metrics from nearby stars
  • Calculate an ideal aperture for extracting aperture photometry
  • A flexible linear model to perform local background subtraction, accounting for higher order terms such as background gradients and the reflective straps.