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TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) was launched in 2018 with the purpose of observing bright stars in the solar neighbourhood to search for transiting exoplanets. After the completion of the two year nominal mission, TESS has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Sangeetha Nandakumar , Mauro Barbieri , Jeremy Tregloan-Reed

Space-based photometric surveys have discovered large numbers of planets transiting other stars, but these observe in a single band-pass and yield only the planet radius, orbital period, and transit duration. Information on the masses,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 E. Gaidos , D. Kitzmann , K. Heng

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new worlds, with TESS planet candidates now outnumbering the total number of confirmed planets from $\textit{Kepler}$. Owing to differences in survey design, TESS…

Though free-floating planets (FFPs) may outpopulate their bound counterparts in the terrestrial-mass range, they remain one of the least explored exoplanet demographics. Due to their negligible electromagnetic emission at all wavelengths,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Michelle Kunimoto , William DeRocco , Nolan Smyth , Steve Bryson , B. Scott Gaudi

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, is currently carrying out an all-sky search for small planets transiting bright stars. In the first year of the TESS survey, steady progress was made in achieving the mission's primary…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the upcoming PLATO mission (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) represent two space-based missions with complementary objectives in the field of exoplanet science. While TESS…

The upcoming NASA TESS mission will perform an all-sky survey for planets transiting bright nearby stars. In addition, its excellent photometric precision will enable asteroseismology of solar-type and red-giant stars. We apply a newly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Tiago L. Campante

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,…

As the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) fulfills its primary mission, it is executing an unprecedented survey of almost the entire sky: TESS's approved extended mission will likely extend sky coverage to ~94%, including…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-12 Matthew J Payne , Matthew J Holman , András Pál

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…

The next generation of exoplanet space photometry missions proposed by both NASA and ESA promise to discover small transiting planets around the nearest and brightest main-sequence stars. The physical and rotational properties of these…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Samuel N. Quinn , Russel J. White

When an exoplanet passes in front of its host star, the resulting eclipse causes an observable decrease in stellar flux, and when multiple such transits are detected, the orbital period of the exoplanet can be determined. Over the past six…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Dillon Bass , Daniel Fabrycky

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited sample of transiting hot Jupiters suitable for population studies. Assembling such…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Samuel W. Yee , Joshua N. Winn , Joel D. Hartman , Luke G. Bouma , George Zhou , Samuel N. Quinn , David W. Latham , Allyson Bieryla , Joseph E. Rodriguez , Karen A. Collins , Owen Alfaro , Khalid Barkaoui , Corey Beard , Alexander A. Belinski , Zouhair Benkhaldoun , Paul Benni , Krzysztof Bernacki , Andrew W. Boyle , R. Paul Butler , Douglas A. Caldwell , Ashley Chontos , Jessie L. Christiansen , David R. Ciardi , Kevin I. Collins , Dennis M. Conti , Jeffrey D. Crane , Tansu Daylan , Courtney D. Dressing , Jason D. Eastman , Zahra Essack , Phil Evans , Mark E. Everett , Sergio Fajardo-Acosta , Raquel Forés-Toribio , Elise Furlan , Mourad Ghachoui , Michaël Gillon , Coel Hellier , Ian Helm , Andrew W. Howard , Steve B. Howell , Howard Isaacson , Emmanuel Jehin , Jon M. Jenkins , Eric L. N. Jensen , John F. Kielkopf , Didier Laloum , Naunet Leonhardes-Barboza , Sarah E. Logsdon , Jack Lubin , Michael B. Lund , Mason G. MacDougall , Andrew W. Mann , Natalia A. Maslennikova , Bob Massey , Kim K. McLeod , Jose A. Muñoz , Patrick Newman , Valeri Orlov , Peter Plavchan , Adam Popowicz , Francisco J. Pozuelos , Tyler A. Pritchard , Don J. Radford , Michael Reefe , George R. Ricker , Alexander Rudat , Boris S. Safonov , Richard P. Schwarz , Heidi Schweiker , Nicholas J. Scott , S. Seager , Stephen A. Shectman , Chris Stockdale , Thiam-Guan Tan , Johanna K. Teske , Neil B. Thomas , Mathilde Timmermans , Roland Vanderspek , David Vermilion , David Watanabe , Lauren M. Weiss , Richard G. West , Judah Van Zandt , Michal Zejmo , Carl Ziegler

The KELT project was originally designed as a small-aperture, wide-field photometric survey that would be optimally sensitive to planets transiting bright (V~8-10) stars. This magnitude range corresponded to the gap between the faint…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Joshua Pepper , Keivan Stassun , B. Scott Gaudi

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 recently launched NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is going to collect lightcurves for a few hundred million of stars and we expect to increase the number of pulsating stars to analyze compared to the few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 L. Bugnet , R. A. García , G. R. Davies , S. Mathur , O. J. Hall , B. M. Rendle

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is focusing on relatively bright stars and has found thousands of planet candidates. However, mainly because of the low spatial resolution of its cameras ($\approx$ 21 arcsec/pixel), TESS is…

The NASA Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) is a general purpose stellar archive with the aim of providing support for NASA's planet finding and characterization goals, stellar astrophysics, and the planning of NASA and other space…

Transit observations have found the majority of exoplanets to date. Spectroscopic observations of transits and eclipses are the most commonly used tool to characterize exoplanet atmospheres and will be used in the search for life. However,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 L. Kaltenegger , J. Pepper