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Both direct and indirect methods of exoplanet detection rely upon detailed knowledge of the potential host stars. Such stellar characterization allows for accurate extraction of planetary properties, as well as contributing to our overall…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Emilie R. Simpson , Tara Fetherolf , Stephen R. Kane , Joshua Pepper , Teo Mocnik , Paul A. Dalba

We investigate the effect of observing cadence on the precision of radius ratio values obtained from transit light curves by performing uniform Markov Chain Monte Carlo fits of 46 exoplanets observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-07 Julio Hernandez Camero , Cynthia S. K. Ho , Vincent Van Eylen

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

We present TSARDI, an efficient rejection algorithm designed to improve the transit detection efficiency in data collected by large scale surveys. TSARDI is based on the Machine Learning clustering algorithm DBSCAN, and its purpose is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-27 D. Mislis , S. Pyrzas , K. A. Alsubai

While Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) covers a considerable area of the sky during routine observations and the pointing schedule is easy to follow, it is not obvious to retrieve the current and/or predicted visibility of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 András Pál

High-precision and high-cadence photometric surveys such as Kepler or TESS are making huge progress not only in the detection of new extrasolar planets but also in the study of a great number of variable stars. This is the case for central…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Alba Aller , Jorge Lillo-Box , David Jones

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched successfully on 18th of April, 2018, will observe nearly the full sky and will provide time-series imaging data in ~27-day-long campaigns. TESS is equipped with 4 cameras; each has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 András Pál , László Molnár , Csaba Kiss

A preliminary data analysis of the stellar light curves obtained by the robotic telescopes of the TAOS project is presented. We selected a data run relative to one of the stellar fields observed by three of the four TAOS telescopes, and we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-27 D. Ricci , P. -G. Sprimont , C. Ayala , F. G. Ramón-Fox , R. Michel , S. Navarro , S. -Y. Wang , Z. -W. Zhang , M. J. Lehner , L. Nicastro , M. Reyes-Ruiz

We present EVEREST, an open-source pipeline for removing instrumental noise from K2 light curves. EVEREST employs a variant of pixel level decorrelation (PLD) to remove systematics introduced by the spacecraft's pointing error and a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Rodrigo Luger , Eric Agol , Ethan Kruse , Rory Barnes , Andrew Becker , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Drake Deming

The goal of our study is to provide a reliable classification of variability of A-F stars brighter than 11 mag located in the northern TESS continuous viewing zone. We also aim at thorough discussion about issues in the classification…

Visual classification of the variability classes of over 120,000 Kepler, K2 and TESS stars is presented. The sample is mainly based on stars with known spectral types. Since variability classification often requires the location of the star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Luis A. Balona

We present the first results of the application of supervised classification methods to the Kepler Q1 long-cadence light curves of a subsample of 2288 stars measured in the asteroseismology program of the mission. The methods, originally…

This study introduces an approach to detecting exocomet transits in the dataset of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), specifically within its Sector 1. Given the limited number of exocomet transits detected in the observed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-01 D. V. Dobrycheva , M. Yu. Vasylenko , I. V. Kulyk , Ya. V. Pavlenko , O. S. Shubina , I. V. Luk'yanyk , P. P. Korsun

Pulsation frequencies reveal the interior structures of white dwarf stars, shedding light on the properties of these compact objects that represent the final evolutionary stage of most stars. Two-minute cadence photometry from TESS will…

The rotation period of a star is an important quantity that provides insight into its structure and state. For stars with surface features like starspots, their periods can be inferred from brightness variations as these features move…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Soichiro Hattori , Ruth Angus , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Yuxi , Lu , Isabel Colman

The recently launched NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is going to collect lightcurves for a few hundred million of stars and we expect to increase the number of pulsating stars to analyze compared to the few…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 L. Bugnet , R. A. García , G. R. Davies , S. Mathur , O. J. Hall , B. M. Rendle

We apply multi-algorithm machine learning models to TESS 2-minute survey data from Sectors 1-72 to identify stellar flares. Models trained with Deep Neural Network, Random Forest, and XGBoost algorithms, respectively, utilized four flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Chia-Lung Lin , Daniel Apai , Mark S. Giampapa , Wing-Huen Ip

We present 83,717,159 light curves for 56,401,549 stars with T < 16 mag observed in the Full-Frame Images (FFIs) of Cycle 1 of the NASA TESS mission. These light curves were extracted from subtracted images produced by the Cluster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Joel Hartman , Gáspár Bakos , Luke G. Bouma , Zoltan Csubry

Photometric missions such as Kepler and TESS have generated millions of light curves covering almost the entire sky, offering unprecedented opportunities to study stellar variability and advance our understanding of the Universe. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Paul F. X. Gregory , Jeroen Audenaert , Mykyta Kliapets , Daniel Muthukrishna , Andrew Tkachenko , Marek Skarka , Marc Hon , George R. Ricker

The feasibility of using data from the NASA STEREO mission for variable star and asteroseismology studies has been examined. A data analysis pipeline has been developed that is able to apply selected algorithms to the entire database of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. T. Wraight , Glenn J. White , D. Bewsher , A. J. Norton