We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the revised TESS Input Catalog (TIC), based on the incorporation of the Gaia second data release. We also describe a revised ranking system for prioritizing stars for 2-minute cadence observations, and assemble a revised Candidate Target List (CTL) using that ranking. The TIC is available on the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) server, and an enhanced CTL is available through the Filtergraph data visualization portal system at the URL http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/tess_ctl.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1905.10694,
title = {The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List},
author = {Keivan G. Stassun and Ryan J. Oelkers and Martin Paegert and Guillermo Torres and Joshua Pepper and Nathan De Lee and Kevin Collins and David W. Latham and Philip S. Muirhead and Jay Chittidi and Barbara Rojas-Ayala and Scott W. Fleming and Mark E. Rose and Peter Tenenbaum and Eric B. Ting and Stephen R. Kane and Thomas Barclay and Jacob L. Bean and C. E. Brassuer and David Charbonneau and Jack J. Lissauer and Andrew W. Mann and Brian McLean and Susan Mulally and Norio Narita and Peter Plavchan and George R. Ricker and Dimitar Sasselov and S. Seager and Sanjib Sharma and Bernie Shiao and Alessandro Sozzetti and Dennis Stello and Roland Vanderspek and Geoff Wallace and Joshua N. Winn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.10694},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
30 pages, 16 figures, submitted to AAS Journals; provided to the community in advance of publication in conjunction with public release of the TIC/CTL on 28 May 2019