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Getting Ready for TESS: an On-hand Software Tutorial

Workshop 3

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2019

J. Burt  and
T. Barclay
J. Burt
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA email: [email protected]
T. Barclay
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
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Abstract

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The launch of NASA’s next exoplanet mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), took place successfully on 2018 April 18, and has now commenced science operations. TESS is specifically designed to search for exoplanets transiting the closest and brightest stars using high-cadence photometric measurements. The images employed for detecting those planets can also be used for a wide variety of time-domain astronomy, especially when considering the full-frame images that TESS takes every 30 minutes. This (pre-launch) workshop familiarised participants with the details of how TESS will operate, described the expected data products and how to access them, introduced the software suite PyKE, which can be used to analyse TESS data, and highlighted ways for participants to request additional TESS targets.

Keywords

Methods: data analysistechniques: photometric
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S339: Southern Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , November 2017 , pp. 220 - 225
Copyright
© International Astronomical Union 2019 

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