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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…

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

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered $\sim$5000 planets and planet candidates after three and a half years of observations. With a planned second Extended Mission spanning Years 5 - 7 on the horizon, now is the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Michelle Kunimoto , Joshua N. Winn , George R. Ricker , Roland Vanderspek

The Kepler, K2, and Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) missions have provided a wealth of confirmed exoplanets, benefiting from a huge effort from the planet-hunting and follow-up community. With careful systematics mitigation,…

In this paper we investigate systems previously identified to exhibit transit timing variations (TTVs) in Kepler data, with the goal of predicting the expected improvements to the mass and eccentricity constraints that will arise from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Max Goldberg , Sam Hadden , Matthew J. Payne , Matthew J. Holman

Multi-planet system architectures are frequently used to constrain possible formation and evolutionary pathways of observed exoplanets. Therefore, understanding the predictive and descriptive power of empirical models of these systems is…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 Emma V. Turtelboom , Jamie Dietrich , Courtney D. Dressing , Caleb K. Harada

We present the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Habitable Zone Stars Catalog, a list of 1822 nearby stars with a TESS magnitude brighter than T = 12 and reliable distances from Gaia DR2, around which the NASA's TESS mission can…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-28 L. Kaltenegger , J. Pepper , K. Stassun , R. Oelkers

We present results of a study on identifying circumbinary planet candidates that produce multiple transits during one conjunction with eclipsing binary systems. The occurrence of these transits enables us to estimate the candidates' orbital…

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 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

Up to date planet ephemerides are becoming increasingly important as exoplanet science moves from detecting exoplanets to characterising their architectures and atmospheres in depth. In this work ephemerides are updated for 22 Kepler…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Matthew P. Battley , Michelle Kunimoto , David J. Armstrong , Don Pollacco

A re-purposed Kepler mission could continue the search for nearly Earth-sized planets in very short-period (< 1 day) orbits. Recent surveys of the Kepler data already available have revealed at least a dozen such planetary candidates, and a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-09 Brian Jackson

We present a study of the detection efficiency for the TESS mission, focusing on the yield of longer-period transiting exoplanets ($P > 25$ days). We created the Transit Investigation and Recoverability Application (TIaRA) pipeline to use…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-14 Toby Rodel , Daniel Bayliss , Samuel Gill , Faith Hawthorn

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

Radial velocity (RV) surveys have detected hundreds of exoplanets through their gravitational interactions with their host stars. Some will be transiting, but most lack sufficient follow-up observations to confidently detect (or rule out)…

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 upcoming TESS mission is expected to find thousands of transiting planets around bright stars, yet for three-quarters of the fields observed the temporal coverage will limit discoveries to planets with orbital periods below 13.7 days.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 David M. Kipping , Christopher Lam

Context: TESS has been successfully launched and has begin data acquisition. To expedite the science that may be performed with the resulting data it is necessary to gain a good understanding of planetary yields. Given the observing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-21 Benjamin F. Cooke , Don Pollacco , Richard West , James McCormac , Peter J. Wheatley

Continuous data releases throughout the TESS primary mission will provide unique opportunities for the exoplanet community at large to contribute to maximizing TESS's scientific return via the discovery and validation of transiting planets.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Ryan Cloutier