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Though missions devoted to time series photometry focus primarily on targets far beyond the solar system, their observations can be contaminated by foreground minor planets, especially near the ecliptic plane where solar system objects are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Ben Cassese , Justin Vega , Daniel A. Yahalomi , David Gelpi , Eva Marmolejos , Aneisa Rampersaud , Aware Deshmukh , Ruth Angus , Malena Rice

Many attempts have already been made for detecting exomoons around transiting exoplanets but the first confirmed discovery is still pending. The experience that have been gathered so far allow us to better optimize future space telescopes…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 A. E. Simon , Gy. M. Szabó , L. L. Kiss , A. Fortier , W. Benz

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission searches for new exoplanets. The observing strategy of TESS results in high-precision photometry of millions of stars across the sky, allowing for detailed asteroseismic studies of…

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

For ongoing studies of the role of rotation in stellar evolution, we require large catalogs of rotation periods for testing and refining gyrochronology. While there is a wealth of data from the Kepler and K2 missions, TESS presents both an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 Isabel L. Colman , Ruth Angus , Trevor David , Jason Curtis , Soichiro Hattori , Yuxi Lucy Lu

In this paper, we study stellar light curves from the TESS satellite (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) for the presence of stellar flares. The main aim is to detect stellar flares using two-minutes cadence data and to perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Małgorzata Pietras , Robert Falewicz , Marek Siarkowski , Kamil Bicz , Paweł Preś

This study presents the implementation of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) methodologies, particularly the fuzzy Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), in prioritizing technosignatures (TSs) for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Juan Miguel Sánchez-Lozano , Eloy Peña-Asensio , Hector Socas-Navarro

The demographics of young exoplanets can shed light onto their formation and evolution processes. Exoplanet properties are derived from the properties of their host stars. As such, it is important to accurately characterize the host stars…

When an exoplanet passes in front of its host star, the resulting eclipse causes an observable decrease in stellar flux, and when multiple such transits are detected, the orbital period of the exoplanet can be determined. Over the past six…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Dillon Bass , Daniel Fabrycky

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

Driven largely by multiple ground-based radial-velocity (RV) surveys and photometric space missions such as Kepler and K2, the discovery of new exoplanets has increased rapidly since the early 2000s. However, due to a target selection bias…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 Filipe Pereira

Up to date planet ephemerides are becoming increasingly important as exoplanet science moves from detecting exoplanets to characterising their architectures and atmospheres in depth. In this work ephemerides are updated for 22 Kepler…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Matthew P. Battley , Michelle Kunimoto , David J. Armstrong , Don Pollacco

In this paper we present the latest results of our ongoing multiplicity survey of (Community) TESS Objects of Interest, using astrometry and photometry from the latest data release of the ESA Gaia mission to detect stellar companions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-06 M. Mugrauer , A. -K. Kollak , L. Pietsch , K. -U. Michel

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

In this paper we present and discuss the criteria for selecting potential target stars suitable for the search for Earth like planets, with a special emphasis on the stellar aspects of habitability. Missions that search for terrestrial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. Kaltenegger , C. Eiroa , I. Ribas , F. Paresce , M. Leitzinger , P. Odert , A. Hanslmeier , M. Fridlund , H. Lammer , the Darwin team

The high number of planet discoveries made in the last years provides a good sample for statistical analysis, leading to some clues on the distributions of planet parameters, like masses and periods, at least in close proximity to the host…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Bonavita , G. Chauvin , S. Desidera , R. Gratton , M. Janson , J. L. Beuzit , M. Kasper , C. Mordasini

During the TESS prime mission, 74% of the sky area will only have an observational baseline of 27 days. For planets with orbital periods longer than 13.5 days, TESS can only capture one or two transits, and the planet ephemerides will be…

Current and future space-based observatories such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and PLATO are set to provide an enormous amount of new data on oscillating stars, and in particular stars that oscillate similar to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 M. B. Nielsen , E. Hatt , W. J. Chaplin , W. H. Ball , G. R. Davies

We present a homogeneously-selected sample of 15779 candidate binary systems with main sequence primary stars and orbital periods shorter than 5 days. The targets were selected from TESS full-frame image lightcurves on the basis of their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Matthew J. Green , Dan Maoz , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler , Sahar Shahaf , Roy Gomel , Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix