Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Ricker, G.; Winn, Joshua N.; Vanderspek, R.; Latham, David W.; Bakos, G. Á.; Bean, Jacob L.; Berta-Thompson, Zachory K.; Brown, Timothy M.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Butler, N.; Butler, R. Paul; Chaplin, W. J.; Charbonneau, David; Christensen‐Dalsgaard, J.; Clampin, Mark; Deming, Drake; Doty, J.; Lee, Nathan De; Dressing, Courtney D.; Dunham, Edward W.; Endl, Michael; Fressin, François; Ge, Jian; Henning, Thomas; Holman, Matthew J.; Howard, Andrew W.; Ida, Shigeru; Jenkins, Jon; Jernigan, G.; Johnson, John Asher; Kaltenegger, Lisa; Kawai, N.; Kjeldsen, H.; Laughlin, Gregory; Levine, Alan M.; Lin, D. N. C.; Lissauer, Jack J.; MacQueen, Phillip J.; Marcy, Geoffrey W.; McCullough, P. R.; Morton, Timothy D.; Narita, Norio; Paegert, Martin; Πάλλη, Ε.; Pepe, F.; Pepper, Joshua; Quirrenbach, A.; Rinehart, Stephen A.; Sasselov, Dimitar; Sato, Bun’ei; Seager, Sara; Sozzetti, A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Sullivan, Peter; Szentgyorgyi, Andrew; Torres, Guillermo; Udry, S.; Villaseñor, J.

doi:10.1117/12.2063489

articleProceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIEAug 2, 2014GREEN OA

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

GRG. Ricker JNJoshua N. Winn RVR. Vanderspek DWDavid W. Latham GÁG. Á. Bakos

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian · +7 more institutions

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Abstract

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS ) will search for planets transiting bright and nearby stars. TESS has been selected by NASA for launch in 2017 as an Astrophysics Explorer mission. The spacecraft will be placed into a highly elliptical 13.7-day orbit around the Earth. During its two-year mission, TESS will employ four wide-field optical CCD cameras to monitor at least 200,000 main-sequence dwarf stars with IC (approximately less than) 13 for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. Each star will be observed for an interval ranging from one month to one year, depending mainly on the star's ecliptic latitude. The longest observing intervals will be for stars near the ecliptic…

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