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A TESS Search for Distant Solar System Planets: A Feasibility Study

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2019-10-16 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

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 Transneptunian Objects (TNOs) and Centaurs. We demonstrate that shift-and-stack techniques can be used to efficiently search the Full-Frame Image (FFI) data from the TESS mission and survey the entire sky for outer Solar System objects down to 22nd\sim22^{nd} magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.1910.06383,
  title  = {A TESS Search for Distant Solar System Planets: A Feasibility Study},
  author = {Matthew J. Holman and Matthew J. Payne and András Pál},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06383},
  year   = {2019}
}

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