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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

A transiting planet invites us to measure its size, mass, orbital parameters, atmospheric composition, and other characteristics. But the invitation can only be accepted if the host star is bright enough for precise measurements of its flux…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Joshua N. Winn

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) will search for planets transiting bright stars with Ic<13. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2018 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission, and is expected to discover a thousand or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Akshata Krishnamurthy , Joel Villasenor , Steve Kissel , George Ricker , Roland Vanderspek

Several hundreds of thousands of eclipsing binaries (EBs) are expected to be detected in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) full frame images (FFIs). This represents a significant increase in the number of EBs available for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Frédéric Marcadon , Andrej Prša

We present a simple and interpretable representation of TESS light curves designed for large-scale exploratory analysis. Our goal is not to optimize classification performance, but to construct a computationally efficient mapping in which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Dovi Poznanski

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…

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is performing a homogeneous survey of the sky from space in search of transiting exoplanets. The collected data are also being used for detecting passing Solar system objects, including 17…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-28 C. de la Fuente Marcos , R. de la Fuente Marcos , O. Vaduvescu , M. Stanescu

Accurate masses and radii for normal stars derived from observations of detached eclipsing binary stars are of fundamental importance for testing stellar models and may be useful for calibrating free parameters in these model if the masses…

During its two-year prime mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is obtaining full-frame images with a regular 30-minute cadence in a sequence of 26 sectors that cover a combined 85% of the sky. While its primary science…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-06 Keaton J. Bell

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

New insights on stellar evolution and stellar interiors physics are being made possible by asteroseismology. Throughout the course of the Kepler mission, asteroseismology has also played an important role in the characterization of…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the latest observational effort to find exoplanets and map bright transient optical phenomena. Supernovae (SN) are particularly interesting as cosmological standard candles for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 B. W. Holwerda , S. Knabel , R. C. Steele , L. Strolger , J. Kielkopf , A. Jacques , W. Roemer

We present High-Level Science Products (HLSPs) containing light curves from MIT's Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP) from the second year of TESS' first Extended Mission (Sectors 40 - 55; 2021 July - 2022 September). In total, 12.2 million…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Michelle Kunimoto , Evan Tey , Willie Fong , Katharine Hesse , Avi Shporer , Michael Fausnaugh , Roland Vanderspek , George Ricker

Background. Astrometry at or below the micro-arcsec level with an imaging telescope assumes that the uncertainty on the location of an unresolved source can be an arbitrarily small fraction of the detector pixel, given a sufficient photon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 Mario Gai , Alberto Vecchiato , Alberto Riva , Deborah Busonero , Mario Lattanzi , Beatrice Bucciarelli , Mariateresa Crosta , Zhaoxiang Qi

Though missions devoted to time series photometry focus primarily on targets far beyond the solar system, their observations can be contaminated by foreground minor planets, especially near the ecliptic plane where solar system objects are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Ben Cassese , Justin Vega , Daniel A. Yahalomi , David Gelpi , Eva Marmolejos , Aneisa Rampersaud , Aware Deshmukh , Ruth Angus , Malena Rice

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 All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) provides long baseline (${\sim}4$ yrs) light curves for sources brighter than V$\lesssim17$ mag across the whole sky. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has started to…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be conducting a nearly all-sky photometric survey over two years, with a core mission goal to discover small transiting exoplanets orbiting nearby bright stars. It will obtain 30-minute…