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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the first high-precision full-sky photometry survey in space. We present light curves from a magnitude limited set of stars and other stationary luminous objects from the TESS Full Frame…

We investigate the accuracy of astrometric measurements with the VLT/FORS1 camera and consider potential applications. The study is based on two-epoch (2000 and 2002/2003) frame series of observations of a selected Galactic Bulge sky region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. F. Lazorenko , M. Mayor , M. Dominik , F. Pepe , D. Segransan , S. Udry

NEAT is an astrometric mission proposed to ESA with the objectives of detecting Earth-like exoplanets in the habitable zone of nearby solar-type stars. NEAT requires the capability to measure stellar centroids at the precision of 5e-6…

NEAT is an astrometric mission proposed to ESA with the objectives of detecting Earth-like exoplanets in the habitable zone of nearby solar-type stars. NEAT requires the capability to measure stellar centroids at the precision of 5e-6…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be conducting a nearly all-sky photometric survey over two years, with a core mission goal to discover small transiting exoplanets orbiting nearby bright stars. It will obtain 30-minute…

To determine the precise positions of stars in CCD frames, various centering algorithms have been proposed for astrometry. The effective point spread function (ePSF) and the Gaussian centering algorithms are two representative centering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 F. R. Lin , Q. Y. Peng , Z. J. Zheng , B. F. Guo , Y. J. Shang

Two of TESS's major science goals are to measure masses for 50 planets smaller than 4 Earth radii and to discover high-quality targets for atmospheric characterization efforts. It is important that these two goals are linked by quantifying…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Natasha E. Batalha , Taylor Lewis , Jonathan J. Fortney , Natalie M. Batalha , Eliza Kempton , Nikole K. Lewis , Michael R. Line

Exoplanetary transit and stellar oscillation surveys require a very high precision photometry. The instrumental noise has therefore to be minimized. First, we perform a semi-analytical model of different noise sources. We show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nicolas Crouzet , Tristan Guillot , Francois Fressin , Alain Blazit

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

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

The impulsive noise in astronomical images originates from various sources. It develops as a result of thermal generation in pixels, collision of cosmic rays with image sensor or may be induced by high readout voltage in Electron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 A. Popowicz , A. R. Kurek , T. Blachowicz , V. Orlov , B. Smolka

The origin of the disks around Be stars is still not known. Further progress requires a proper parametrization of their structure, both spatially and kinematically. This is challenging as the disks are very small. Here we assess whether a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rene Oudmaijer , Andrew Parr , Deborah Baines , John Porter

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS, launched early 2018) is expected to find a multitude of new transiting planet candidates around the nearest and brightest stars. Timely high-precision follow-up observations from the ground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Gudmundur Stefansson , Suvrath Mahadevan , John Wisniewski , Yiting Li , Marissa Maney , Leslie Hebb , Brett Morris , Samuel Halverson , Andrew Monson , Paul Robertson

New insights on stellar evolution and stellar interiors physics are being made possible by asteroseismology. Throughout the course of the Kepler mission, asteroseismology has also played an important role in the characterization of…

Since the onset of the `space revolution' of high-precision high-cadence photometry, asteroseismology has been demonstrated as a powerful tool for informing Galactic archaeology investigations. The launch of the NASA TESS mission has…

By utilizing the spatially-resolved photometry of galaxies at $0.2<z<3.0$ in the CEERS field, we estimate the resolved and unresolved stellar mass via spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting to study the discrepancy between them. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-16 Jie Song , GuanWen Fang , Zesen Lin , Yizhou Gu , Xu Kong

We present a theoretical analysis of the measuring algorithm we use when applying the Diffracto-Astrometry technique to Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) saturated stellar images. Theoretical Point Spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Ruelas-Mayorga , L. J. Sanchez , J. Olivares , C. Allen , A. Poveda , R. Costero , A. Nigoche-Netro

The ASTEP project aims at detecting and characterizing transiting planets from Dome C, Antarctica, and qualifying this site for photometry in the visible. The first phase of the project, ASTEP South, is a fixed 10 cm diameter instrument…

Online Digital Sky Survey (DSS) material is often used to obtain information on newly discovered variable stars for older epochs (e.g. Nova progenitors, flare stars, ...). We present here the results of an investigation of photometry on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Bacher , S. Kimeswenger , P. Teutsch