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As the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) fulfills its primary mission it is executing an unprecedented all-sky survey with the potential to discover distant planets in our own solar system, as well as hundreds of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Matthew J. Holman , Matthew J. Payne , András Pál

We present a pipeline for searching for trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) using data from the TESS mission, that includes a novel optimization-based framework for subtracting the effects of scattered light and pointing jitter. The background…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Varun Ganapathi

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

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

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

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

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit bright host stars. Here, we predict the properties of the transiting planets that TESS will…

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…

We present TESSELLATE, a dedicated pipeline for performing an untargeted search documenting all variable phenomena captured by the TESS space telescope. Building on the TESSreduce difference imaging pipeline, TESSELLATE extracts calibrated…

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 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

The accumulating, but small, set of large semi-major axis trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) shows an apparent clustering in the orientations of their orbits. This clustering must either be representative of the intrinsic distribution of these…

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

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

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…

TESS is finding transiting planet candidates around bright, nearby stars across the entire sky. The large field-of-view, however, results in low spatial resolution, therefore multiple stars contribute to almost every TESS light curve.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Carl Ziegler , Andrei Tokovinin , Cesar Briceno , James Mang , Nicholas Law , Andrew W. Mann

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

The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is observing tens of millions of stars with time spans ranging from $\sim$ 27 days to about 1 year of continuous observations. This vast amount of data contains a wealth of information…

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