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During its two year prime mission the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will perform a time-series photometric survey covering over 80% of the sky. This survey comprises observations of 26 24 x 96 degree sectors that are each…

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

In this work, we present the analysis of 33,054 M-dwarf stars located within 100 parsecs in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Full Frame Images (FFIs) of the observed sectors 1 to 5. We present a new pipeline called NEMESIS…

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 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…

TESS will target the ecliptic plane in Sectors 42 - 46. These sectors overlap with campaigns from the K2 mission, providing a unique opportunity for multi-mission light curve analysis. This data release note describes the combined analysis…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-26 Michelle Kunimoto , Chelsea Huang , Evan Tey , Willie Fong , Katharine Hesse , Avi Shporer

The majority of observed pixels on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) are delivered in the form of full frame images (FFI). However, the FFIs contain systematic effects such as pointing jitter and scattered light from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Soichiro Hattori , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , David W. Hogg , Benjamin T. Montet , Ruth Angus , T. A. Pritchard , Jason L. Curtis , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

We study the statistics and properties of microlensing events that can be detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite(TESS) based on Monte Carlo simulations. We simulate potential microlensing events from a sample of the TESS…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Sedighe Sajadian , Atousa Kalantari , Hossein Fatheddin , Somayeh Khakpash

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

The Public European Southern Observatory Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO) began as a public spectroscopic survey in April 2012. We describe the data reduction strategy and data products which are publicly available through…

Since its launch, TESS has provided high cadence observations for objects across the sky. Although high cadence TESS observations provide a unique possibility to study the rapid time evolution of numerous objects, artifacts in the data make…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 R. Ridden-Harper , A. Rest , R. Hounsell , T. E. Müller-Bravo , Q. Wang , V. A. Villar

The T16 project has produced a uniformly detrended and systematics-corrected set of 83,717,159 TESS Cycle 1 full-frame image light curves for stars observed by TESS in its primary mission down to T=16 mag, enabling sensitive transit…

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

3I/ATLAS, also known as C2025 N1 (ATLAS), is the third known macroscopic interstellar object to pass through our Solar System. We report serendipitous Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) observations of 3I/ATLAS taken between…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Jorge Martinez-Palomera , Amy Tuson , Christina Hedges , Jessie Dotson , Thomas Barclay , Brian Powell

Stellar variability and transient events provide critical insights into astrophysics, accelerated by missions like CoRoT, Kepler, and K2. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) adds a unique combination of long baseline and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bisi Bernard Ogunwale , Yossi Zaguri , Volker Perdelwitz , Marcel V"olschow , Sagi Yosef Azulay , Dafne Guetta , Lev Tal-Or

JWST has ushered in an era of unprecedented ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While there are over 5,000 confirmed planets, more than 4,000 TESS planet candidates are still unconfirmed and many of the best planets for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-21 Benjamin J. Hord , Eliza M. -R. Kempton , Thomas Mikal-Evans , David W. Latham , David R. Ciardi , Diana Dragomir , Knicole D. Colón , Gabrielle Ross , Andrew Vanderburg , Zoe L. de Beurs , Karen A. Collins , Cristilyn N. Watkins , Jacob Bean , Nicolas B. Cowan , Tansu Daylan , Caroline V. Morley , Jegug Ih , David Baker , Khalid Barkaoui , Natalie M. Batalha , Aida Behmard , Alexander Belinski , Zouhair Benkhaldoun , Paul Benni , Krzysztof Bernacki , Allyson Bieryla , Avraham Binnenfeld , Pau Bosch-Cabot , François Bouchy , Valerio Bozza , Rafael Brahm , Lars A. Buchhave , Michael Calkins , Ashley Chontos , Catherine A. Clark , Ryan Cloutier , Marion Cointepas , Kevin I. Collins , Dennis M. Conti , Ian J. M. Crossfield , Fei Dai , Jerome P. de Leon , Georgina Dransfield , Courtney Dressing , Adam Dustor , Gilbert Esquerdo , Phil Evans , Sergio B. Fajardo-Acosta , Jerzy Fiołka , Raquel Forés-Toribio , Antonio Frasca , Akihiko Fukui , Benjamin Fulton , Elise Furlan , Tianjun Gan , Davide Gandolfi , Mourad Ghachoui , Steven Giacalone , Emily A. Gilbert , Michaël Gillon , Eric Girardin , Erica Gonzales , Ferran Grau Horta , Joao Gregorio , Michael Greklek-McKeon , Pere Guerra , J. D. Hartman , Coel Hellier , Krzysztof G. Hełminiak , Thomas Henning , Michelle L. Hill , Keith Horne , Andrew W. Howard , Steve B. Howell , Daniel Huber , Howard Isaacson , Giovanni Isopi , Emmanuel Jehin , Jon M. Jenkins , Eric L. N. Jensen , Marshall C. Johnson , Andrés Jordán , Stephen R. Kane , John F. Kielkopf , Vadim Krushinsky , Sławomir Lasota , Elena Lee , Pablo Lewin , John H. Livingston , Jack Lubin , Michael B. Lund , Franco Mallia , Christopher R. Mann , Giuseppe Marino , Nataliia Maslennikova , Bob Massey , Rachel Matson , Elisabeth Matthews , Andrew W. Mayo , Tsevi Mazeh , Kim K. McLeod , Edward J. Michaels , Teo Močnik , Mayuko Mori , Georgia Mraz , Jose A. Muñoz , Norio Narita , Louise Dyregaard Nielsen , Hugh Osborn , Enric Palle , Aviad Panahi , Riccardo Papini , Alex S. Polanski , Adam Popowicz , Francisco J. Pozuelos , Samuel N. Quinn , Don J. Radford , Phillip A. Reed , Howard M. Relles , Malena Rice , Paul Robertson , Joseph E. Rodriguez , Lee J. Rosenthal , Ryan A. Rubenzahl , Nicole Schanche , Joshua Schlieder , Richard P. Schwarz , Ramotholo Sefako , Avi Shporer , Alessandro Sozzetti , Gregor Srdoc , Chris Stockdale , Alexander Tarasenkov , Thiam-Guan Tan , Mathilde Timmermans , Eric B. Ting , Judah Van Zandt , JP Vignes , Ian Waite , Noriharu Watanabe , Lauren M. Weiss , Justin Wittrock , George Zhou , Carl Ziegler , Shay Zucker

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