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Resolved Near-infrared Stellar Populations in Nearby Galaxies

  • Authors: Julianne J. Dalcanton, Benjamin F. Williams, Jason L. Melbourne, Léo Girardi, Andy Dolphin, Philip A. Rosenfield, Martha L. Boyer, Roelof S. de Jong, Karoline Gilbert, Paola Marigo, Knut Olsen, Anil C. Seth, and Evan Skillman

Dalcanton et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 198 6.

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Caption: Figure 4.

DOLPHOT's estimate of the local sky for a sequence of exposures taken during a single orbit visit for UGC4305-1, based on DOLPHOT's PSF fitting. The first exposure in the orbit is in the upper left, and the final exposure is in the lower right. Exposures alternate between F110 W and F160 W, and all images for a single filter have been displayed with a common scale and stretch. There is an overall gradient from top to bottom in all images, due to a larger fraction of unresolved sources in the upper half of the image. There is also a time-dependent feature on the left-hand side of the image, due to scattered light. We show in Figure 5 that this feature appears when the telescope is pointed to within 30° of a bright Earth limb; the first two exposures in the orbit had average limb angles of 22° and 26°, respectively, while the third through sixth exposures have limb angles of 31°, 34°, 36°, and 37°, respectively. Even after the bright limb feature disappears, there are still temporal variations in the overall sky brightness level.

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