The TESS Input Catalog (TIC) was built on Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2). To date, there has not been an update to the TIC to incorporate Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) IDs. In this Research Note, we outline how we cross-matched the TIC with Gaia DR3 IDs, its immediate applications to exoplanet research, and lessons learned when dealing with such large data sets. A full TIC/Gaia DR3 cross-match table is available for download on the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program (ExoFOP) website, and a Jupyter Notebook with instructions to reproduce the table is available on GitHub.
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@article{arxiv.2603.28850,
title = {Gaia DR3 IDs for TESS Input Catalog Targets},
author = {Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman and Melanie Swain and Jessie L. Christiansen and Emily A. Gilbert and Marcy Harbut and Aurora Y. Kesseli and Michael B. Lund and Meca Lynn and Julian C. van Eyken},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28850},
year = {2026}
}
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4 pages, 1 table. Accepted for publication in RNAAS. Table 1 has been integrated into the NASA Exoplanet Archive and the ExoFOP and is available for full download at https://exofop.ipac.caltech.edu/tess/gaiadr3_tic_crossmatch.php . Code to reproduce Table 1 is available on Github at https://github.com/kevinkhu/ticgaia