LIGHTS. Limitations of Far-Infrared Tracers for Galactic Cirrus Mitigation in the Era of Ultra-Deep Imaging

arXiv:2610.00463 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Legacy Survey of Space and Time — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Carving out the low surface brightness universe with NoiseChisel
• Quantitative Morphology of Galactic Cirrus in Deep Optical Imaging
• Deep Imaging of Diffuse Light Around Galaxies and Clusters: Progress and Challenges

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