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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has provided photometric light curves for stars across nearly the entire sky. This allows for the application of asteroseismology to a pool of potential solar-like oscillators that is…

We report the delivery to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes of target pixel and light curve files for up to 160,000 targets selected from full-frame images (FFI) for each TESS Northern hemisphere observing sector. The data include…

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

Radial-velocity follow-up of stars harbouring transiting planets detected by TESS is expected to require very large amounts of expensive telescope time in the next few years. Therefore, scheduling strategies should be implemented to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Lorenzo Cabona , Pedro Viana , Marco Landoni , João Faria

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 ESA Ariel mission has been adopted for launch in 2029 and will conduct a survey of around one thousand exoplanetary atmospheres during its primary mission life. By providing homogeneous datasets, with a high SNR and wide wavelength…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 Billy Edwards , Giovanna Tinetti

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

We present the first analysis of Cepheid stars observed by the TESS space mission in Sectors 1 to 5. Our sample consists of 25 pulsators: ten fundamental mode, three overtone and two double-mode classical Cepheids, plus three Type II and…

Transiting exoplanets in multi-planet systems exhibit non-Keplerian orbits as a result of the gravitational influence from companions which can cause the times and durations of transits to vary. The amplitude and periodicity of the transit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 Kyle A. Pearson

The TESS mission has provided a wealth of asteroseismic data for solar-like oscillators. However, these data are subject to varying cadences, large gaps, and unequal sampling, which complicates analysis in the frequency domain. One solution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Daniel Hey , Daniel Huber , Joel Ong , Dennis Stello , Daniel Foreman-Mackey

The TESS mission delivers time-series photometry for millions of stars across the sky, offering a probe into stellar astrophysics, including rotation, on a population scale. However, light curve systematics related to the satellite's…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Zachary R. Claytor , Jennifer L. van Saders , Lyra Cao , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Johanna Teske , Rachael L. Beaton

We present a method for deriving a probabilistic estimate of the true source of a detected TESS transiting event. Our method relies on comparing the observed photometric centroid offset for the target star with models of the offset that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Andreas Hadjigeorghiou , David J. Armstrong

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is providing the scientific community with millions of light curves of stars spread across the whole sky. Since 2018 the telescope has detected thousands of planet candidates that…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will search for planets transiting bright stars with Ic<13. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2018 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission, and is expected to discover a thousand or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Akshata Krishnamurthy , Joel Villasenor , Steve Kissel , George Ricker , Roland Vanderspek

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 present stellar parameter estimates for 939,457 southern FGK stars that are candidate targets for the TESS mission. Using a data-driven method similar to the CANNON, we build a model of stellar colours as a function of stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 N. R. Deacon , Th. Henning , D. E. Kossakowski

TESS has proven to be a powerful resource for finding planets, including those that orbit the most prevalent stars in our galaxy: the M dwarfs. Identification of stellar companions (both bound and unbound) has become a standard component of…

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

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