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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe $\sim$150~million stars brighter than $T_{\rm mag} \approx 16$, with photometric precision from 60~ppm to 3~percent, enabling an array of exoplanet and stellar astrophysics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ryan J. Oelkers , Keivan G. Stassun

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is continuing its second extended mission after 55 sectors of observations. TESS publishes full-frame images (FFI) at a cadence of 1800, 600, or 200 seconds, allowing light curves to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Te Han , Timothy D. Brandt

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~85% of the sky throughout its two-year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has an exceptionally large plate scale of 21"/px, causing most TESS light curves to record the blended light of multiple stars. This creates a danger of misattributing variability observed by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Michael E. Higgins , Keaton J. Bell

Over the last two decades, asteroseismology has increasingly proven to be the observational tool of choice for the study of stellar physics, aided by the high quality of data available from space-based missions such as CoRoT, Kepler, K2 and…

We present the first integrated light, TESS-based light curves for star clusters in the Milky Way, Small Magellanic Cloud, and Large Magellanic Cloud. We explore the information encoded in these light curves, with particular emphasis on…

Stellar variability and transient events provide critical insights into astrophysics, accelerated by missions like CoRoT, Kepler, and K2. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) adds a unique combination of long baseline and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bisi Bernard Ogunwale , Yossi Zaguri , Volker Perdelwitz , Marcel V"olschow , Sagi Yosef Azulay , Dafne Guetta , Lev Tal-Or

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~75% of the sky throughout its two year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is providing precise time-series photometry for most star clusters in the solar neighborhood. Using the TESS images, we have begun a Cluster Difference Imaging Photometric Survey (CDIPS), in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-25 L. G. Bouma , J. D. Hartman , W. Bhatti , J. N. Winn , G. Á. Bakos

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has begun a two-year survey of most of the sky, which will include lightcurves for thousands of solar-like oscillators sampled at a cadence of two minutes. To prepare for this steady…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Warrick H. Ball , William J. Chaplin , Mathew Schofield , Andrea Miglio , Diego Bossini , Guy R. Davies , Léo Girardi

Astrophysical light curves are particularly challenging data objects due to the intensity and variety of noise contaminating them. Yet, despite the astronomical volumes of light curves available, the majority of algorithms used to process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-07 Mario Morvan , Nikolaos Nikolaou , Kai Hou Yip , Ingo Waldmann

In the era of rapidly increasing amounts of time series data, classification of variable objects has become the main objective of time-domain astronomy. Classification of irregularly sampled time series is particularly difficult because the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-21 Sven Dennis Kügler , Nikos Gianniotis , Kai Lars Polsterer

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 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…

During its two year prime mission the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will perform a time-series photometric survey covering over 80% of the sky. This survey comprises observations of 26 24 x 96 degree sectors that are each…

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…

XMM-Newton provides unprecedented insight into the X-ray Universe, recording variability information for hundreds of thousands of sources. Manually searching for interesting patterns in light curves is impractical, requiring an automated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Miloš Kovačević , Mario Pasquato , Martino Marelli , Andrea De Luca , Ruben Salvaterra , Andrea Belfiore Mondoni

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

The TESS mission has provided the community with high-precision times series photometry for $\sim$2.8 million stars across the entire sky via the Full Frame Image (FFI) light curves produced by the TESS Science Processing Operations Centre…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Lauren Doyle , David J. Armstrong , Daniel Bayliss , Toby Rodel , Vedad Kunovac

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
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