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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 Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a wide-field all-sky survey mission designed to detect Earth-sized exoplanets. After over four years photometric surveys, data from sectors 1-57, including approximately 1,050,000 light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Li-Heng Wang , Kai Li , Xiang Gao , Ya-Ni Guo , Guo-You Sun

The proposed Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will survey the entire sky to locate the nearest and brightest transiting extrasolar planets with orbital periods up to about 36 days. Here we estimate the number and kind of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-09 Timothy M. Brown , David W. Latham

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has a goal of detecting small planets orbiting stars bright enough for mass determination via ground-based radial velocity observations. Here we present estimates of how many exoplanets the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Thomas Barclay , Joshua Pepper , Elisa V. Quintana

As the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) fulfills its primary mission it is executing an unprecedented all-sky survey with the potential to discover distant planets in our own solar system, as well as hundreds of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Matthew J. Holman , Matthew J. Payne , András Pál

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is surveying a large fraction of the sky, generating a vast database of photometric time series data that requires thorough analysis to identify exoplanetary transit signals. Automated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Helem Salinas , Rafael Brahm , Greg Olmschenk , Richard K. Barry , Karim Pichara , Stela Ishitani Silva , Vladimir Araujo

The Transient Optical Sky Survey (TOSS) is an automated, ground-based telescope system dedicated to searching for optical transient events. Small telescope tubes are mounted on a tracking, semi-equatorial frame with a single polar axis.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-05 E. Hadjiyska , G. Hughes , P. Lubin , S. Taylor , R. Hartong-Redden , J. Zierten

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) is currently concluding its 2-year primary science mission searching 85% of the sky for transiting exoplanets. TESS has already discovered well over one thousand TESS objects of interest…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Dana R. Louie , Norio Narita , Akihiko Fukui , Enric Palle , Motohide Tamura , Nobuhiko Kusakabe , Hannu Parviainen , Drake Deming

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

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

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) presents us with an unprecedented volume of space-based photometric observations that must be analyzed in an efficient and unbiased manner. With at least $\sim1,000,000$ new light curves…

Data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has produced of order one million light curves at cadences of 120 s and especially 1800 s for every ~27-day observing sector during its two-year nominal mission. These data…

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) provides long baseline (${\sim}4$ yrs) light curves for sources brighter than V$\lesssim17$ mag across the whole sky. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has started to…

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…

We report the discovery of six new variable stars identified through an exploratory analysis of several sky fields observed by the author using a small telescope and a CMOS camera. The search employed simultaneous photometry of hundreds of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Maksym Yu. Pyatnytskyy

Building on prior FAST targeted and blind SETI campaigns toward 33 exoplanet systems, we introduce a wavelet-integrated search pipeline for narrowband technosignature candidates in radio dynamic spectra. At its core, the pipeline uses a…

We present a novel method for extracting moving objects from TESS data using machine learning. Our approach uses two stacked 3D U-Nets with skip connections, which we call a W-Net, to filter background and identify pixels containing moving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Brian P. Powell , Jorge Martinez-Palomera , Amy Tuson , Christina Hedges , Jessie Dotson , Jordan Caraballo-Vega

Transit Timing Variations (TTVs) are a powerful tool for detecting unseen companions in systems with known transiting exoplanets and for characterizing their masses and orbital properties. Large-scale and homogeneous TTV analyses are a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Luca Naponiello

We present a software package designed to produce photometric lightcurves and measure rotation periods from full-frame images taken by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which we name ``TESSILATOR''. TESSILATOR is the only…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-29 A. S. Binks , H. M. Guenther