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Here, I present the community with exoTEDRF (EXOplanet Transit and Eclipse Data Reduction Framework; formerly known as supreme-SPOON), an end-to-end pipeline for data reduction and light curve analysis of time series observations (TSOs) of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Michael Radica

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected thousands of exoplanet candidates since 2018, most of which have yet to be confirmed. A key step in the confirmation process of these candidates is ruling out false positives…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has now been operational for a little over two years, covering the Northern and the Southern hemispheres once. The TESS team processes the downlinked data using the Science Processing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Sriram Rao , Ashish Mahabal , Niyanth Rao , Cauligi Raghavendra

Space-based missions such as TESS are identifying a wealth of short-period ($\lesssim30$ d) transiting planets. Despite the growing number of confirmed and candidate planets, the sample is still incomplete and highly biased, challenging…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 M. Lafarga , D. J. Armstrong , K. Cui , A. Hadjigeorghiou , V. Kunovac , L. Doyle , E. M. Bryant , R. F. Díaz , L. A. Nieto , A. Osborn

A crucial step in planet hunting surveys is to select the best candidates for follow up observations, given limited telescope resources. This is often performed by human `eyeballing', a time consuming and statistically awkward process. Here…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 David J. Armstrong , Don Pollacco , Alexandre Santerne

Never before has the detection and characterization of exoplanets via transit photometry been as promising and feasible as it is now, due to the increasing breadth and sensitivity of time domain optical surveys. Past works have made use of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Anna Zuckerman , James Davenport , Steve Croft , Andrew Siemion , Imke de Pater

Transit timing variations (TTVs) can provide useful information for systems observed by transit, as they allow us to put constraints on the masses and eccentricities of the observed planets, or even to constrain the existence of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-15 A. Leleu , G. Chatel , S. Udry , Y. Alibert , J. -B. Delisle , R. Mardling

We present a catalog of cool dwarf targets ($V-J>2.7$, $T_{\rm eff} \lesssim 4000 K$) and their stellar properties for the upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), for the purpose of determining which cool dwarfs should be…

The transit method allows the detection and characterization of planetary systems by analyzing stellar light curves. Convolutional neural networks appear to offer a viable solution for automating these analyses. In this research, two 1D…

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

Despite the ever-growing number of exoplanets discovered and the extensive analyses carried out to find their potential satellites, only two exomoon candidates, Kepler-1625b-i and Kepler-1708 b-i, have been discovered to date. A…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-09 Sz. Kálmán , Sz. Csizmadia , A. E. Simon , K. W. F. Lam , A. Deline , J. -V. Harre , Gy. M. Szabó

We present an analysis of 18 short-cadence (SC) transit lightcurves of TrES-2b using quarter 0 (Q0) and quarter 1 (Q1) from the Kepler Mission. The photometry is of unprecedented precision, 237ppm per minute, allowing for the most accurate…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 David M. Kipping , Gáspár Á. Bakos

The Kepler mission has to date found almost 6,000 planetary transit-like signals, utilizing three years of data for over 170,000 stars at extremely high photometric precision. Due to its design, contamination from eclipsing binaries,…

We present a new method to detect planetary transits from time-series photometry, the Transit Least Squares (TLS) algorithm. TLS searches for transit-like features while taking the stellar limb darkening and planetary ingress and egress…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Michael Hippke , René Heller

The Kepler mission has provided high-accurate photometric data in a long time span for more than two hundred thousands stars, looking for planetary transits. Among the detected candidates, the planetary nature of around 15% has been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 J. Lillo-Box , D. Barrado , L. Mancini , Th. Henning , P. Figueira , S. Ciceri , N. Santos

Data from the Kepler space telescope have led to the discovery of thousands of planet candidates. Most of these candidates are likely to be real exoplanets, but a significant number of false positives still contaminate the sample,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Drake A. Lehmann , Andrew Vanderburg

In this work, we explore several ways to detect possible exocomet transits in the TESS (The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) light curves. The first one has been presented in our previous work, a machine learning approach based on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 D. V. Dobrycheva , I. V. Kulyk , D. R. Karakuts , M. Yu. Vasylenko , Ya. V. Pavlenko , O. S. Shubina , I. V. Luk'yanyk

Much of the exoplanet discovery efforts over the next several years are largely tasked with finding candidates for the upcoming Ariel mission. This is a role that TESS is well-suited for. Radial velocity follow-up is needed to confirm the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Thomas Tarrants , Elvis Mendes

In the last decade, over a million stars were monitored to detect transiting planets. Manual interpretation of potential exoplanet candidates is labor intensive and subject to human error, the results of which are difficult to quantify.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Kyle A. Pearson , Leon Palafox , Caitlin A. Griffith