The TESS Mission Target Selection Procedure
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Article Title | The TESS Mission Target Selection Procedure |
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ERA Journal ID | 1082 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Fausnaugh, Michael (Author), Morgan, Ed (Author), Vanderspek, Roland (Author), Pepper, Joshua (Author), Burke, Christopher J. (Author), Levine, Alan M. (Author), Rudat, Alexander (Author), Villasenor, Jesus Noel S. (Author), Vezie, Michael (Author), Goeke, Robert F. (Author), Ricker, George R. (Author), Latham, David W. (Author), Seager, S. (Author), Winn, Joshua N. (Author), Jenkins, Jon M. (Author), Bakos, G. A. (Author), Barclay, Thomas (Author), Berta-Thompson, Zachory K. (Author), Bouma, Luke G. (Author), Boyd, Patricia T. (Author), Brasseur, C. E. (Author), Burt, Jennifer (Author), Caldwell, Douglas A. (Author), Charbonneau, David (Author), Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (Author), Clampin, Mark (Author), Collins, Karen A. (Author), Colon, Knicole D. (Author), De Lee, Nathan (Author), Dunham, Edward (Author), Fleming, Scott W. (Author), Fong, William (Author), Soto, Aylin Garcia (Author), Gaudi, B. Scott (Author), Guerrero, Natalia M. (Author), Hesse, Katharine (Author), Holman, Matthew J. (Author), Huang, Chelsea X. (Author), Kaltenegger, Lisa (Author), Lissauer, Jack J. (Author), McDermott, Scott (Author), McLean, Brian (Author), Mireles, Ismael (Author), Mullally, Susan E. (Author), Oelkers, Ryan J. (Author), Paegert, Martin (Author), Pal, Andras (Author), Quintana, Elisa V. (Author), Rinehart, S. A. (Author), Rodriguez, David R. (Author), Rose, Mark (Author), Sasselov, Dimitar D. (Author), Schlieder, Joshua E. (Author), Sha, Lizhou (Author), Shporer, Avi (Author), Smith, Jeffrey C. (Author), Stassun, Keivan G. (Author), Tenenbaum, Peter (Author), Ting, Eric B. (Author), Torres, Guillermo (Author), Twicken, Joseph D. (Author), Vanderburg, Andrew (Author), Wohler, Bill (Author) and Yu, Liang (Author) |
Journal Title | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
Journal Citation | 133 (095002), pp. 1-15 |
Number of Pages | 15 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0004-6280 |
1538-3873 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ac1d3f |
Web Address (URL) | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ac1d3f |
Abstract | We describe the target selection procedure by which stars are selected for 2 minute and 20 s observations by TESS. We first list the technical requirements of the TESS instrument and ground systems processing that limit the total number of target slots. We then describe algorithms used by the TESS Payload Operation Center (POC) to merge candidate targets requested by the various TESS mission elements (the Target Selection Working Group, TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium, and Guest Investigator office). Lastly, we summarize the properties of the observed TESS targets over the two-year primary TESS mission. We find that the POC target selection algorithm results in 2.1-3.4 times as many observed targets as target slots allocated for each mission element. We also find that the sky distribution of observed targets is different from the sky distributions of candidate targets due to technical constraints that require a relatively even distribution of targets across the TESS fields of view. We caution researchers exploring statistical analyses of TESS planet-host stars that the population of observed targets cannot be characterized by any simple set of criteria applied to the properties of the input Candidate Target Lists. |
Keywords | Transit instruments (1708); Exoplanets (498); Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510109. Stellar astronomy and planetary systems |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States |
Lehigh University, United States | |
Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, United States | |
Princeton University, United States | |
NASA Ames Research Center, United States | |
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, United States | |
University of Colorado Boulder, United States | |
Space Telescope Science Institute, United States | |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States | |
Aarhus University, Denmark | |
Center for Astrophysics Harvard and Smithsonian, United States | |
Northern Kentucky University, United States | |
Lowell Observatory, United States | |
Ohio State University, United States | |
Cornell University, United States | |
Proto-Logic Consulting, United States | |
Vanderbilt University, United States | |
Konkoly Observatory, Hungary | |
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q725y/the-tess-mission-target-selection-procedure
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