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We review the capabilities of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED, http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu) for information retrieval and knowledge discovery in the context of a globally distributed virtual observatory. Since its inception in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joseph M. Mazzarella , Barry F. Madore , George Helou , the NED Team

Making an inventory of the Solar System is one of the four fundamental science requirements for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The current baseline footprint for LSST's main Wide-Fast-Deep (WFD) Survey observes the sky below…

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) presents us with an unprecedented volume of space-based photometric observations that must be analyzed in an efficient and unbiased manner. With at least $\sim1,000,000$ new light curves…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has a goal of detecting small planets orbiting stars bright enough for mass determination via ground-based radial velocity observations. Here we present estimates of how many exoplanets the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Thomas Barclay , Joshua Pepper , Elisa V. Quintana

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will perform a two-year survey of nearly the entire sky, with the main goal of detecting exoplanets smaller than Neptune around bright and nearby stars. There do not appear to be any…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 L. G. Bouma , Joshua N. Winn , Jacobi Kosiarek , P. R. McCullough

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched successfully on 18th of April, 2018, will observe nearly the full sky and will provide time-series imaging data in ~27-day-long campaigns. TESS is equipped with 4 cameras; each has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 András Pál , László Molnár , Csaba Kiss

We examine the ability of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to detect and improve our understanding of planetary systems in the Kepler field. By modeling the expected transits of all confirmed and candidate planets detected…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Callista N. Christ , Benjamin T. Montet , Daniel C. Fabrycky

The TESS follow-up of a large number of known transiting exoplanets provide unique opportunity to study their physical properties more precisely. Being a space-based telescope, the TESS observations are devoid of any noise component…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Suman Saha

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is NASA's latest space telescope dedicated to the discovery of transiting exoplanets around nearby stars. Besides the main goal of the mission, asteroseismology is an important secondary goal…

While Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) covers a considerable area of the sky during routine observations and the pointing schedule is easy to follow, it is not obvious to retrieve the current and/or predicted visibility of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 András Pál

The legacy of NASA's K2 mission has provided hundreds of transiting exoplanets that can be revisited by new and future facilities for further characterization, with a particular focus on studying the atmospheres of these systems. However,…

The high-precision photometry from NASA's Kepler and TESS missions has revolutionized exoplanet detection, enabling the discovery of over 5500 confirmed exoplanets via the transit method and around 10000 additional candidates awaiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Sarah Huang , Chen Jiang

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is conducting a two-year wide-field survey searching for transiting exoplanets around nearby bright stars that will be ideal for follow-up characterization. To facilitate studies of planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Rachel A. Matson , Steve B. Howell , David Ciardi

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will embark in 2018 on a 2-year wide-field survey mission, discovering over a thousand terrestrial, super-Earth and sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets potentially suitable for follow-up…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Dana R. Louie , Drake Deming , Loic Albert , L. G. Bouma , Jacob Bean , Mercedes Lopez-Morales

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the first high-precision full-sky photometry survey in space. We present light curves from a magnitude limited set of stars and other stationary luminous objects from the TESS Full Frame…

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has collected high-precision, high-cadence time series photometry on 781,590 unique postage-stamp targets across 21 different fields of view. These observations have already yielded 2,496 scientific…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is surveying a large fraction of the sky, generating a vast database of photometric time series data that requires thorough analysis to identify exoplanetary transit signals. Automated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Helem Salinas , Rafael Brahm , Greg Olmschenk , Richard K. Barry , Karim Pichara , Stela Ishitani Silva , Vladimir Araujo