TY - JOUR
T1 - Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
AU - Ricker, George R.
AU - Winn, Joshua N.
AU - Vanderspek, Roland
AU - Latham, David W.
AU - Bakos, Gáspár
AU - Bean, Jacob L.
AU - Berta-Thompson, Zachory K.
AU - Brown, Timothy M.
AU - Buchhave, Lars
AU - Butler, Nathaniel R.
AU - Butler, R. Paul
AU - Chaplin, William J.
AU - Charbonneau, David
AU - Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen
AU - Clampin, Mark
AU - Deming, Drake
AU - Doty, John
AU - De Lee, Nathan
AU - Dressing, Courtney
AU - Dunham, Edward W.
AU - Endl, Michael
AU - Fressin, Francois
AU - Ge, Jian
AU - Henning, Thomas
AU - Holman, Matthew J.
AU - Howard, Andrew W.
AU - Ida, Shigeru
AU - Jenkins, Jon M.
AU - Jernigan, Garrett
AU - Johnson, John Asher
AU - Kaltenegger, Lisa
AU - Kawai, Nobuyuki
AU - Kjeldsen, Hans
AU - Laughlin, Gregory
AU - Levine, Alan M.
AU - Lin, Douglas
AU - Lissauer, Jack J.
AU - MacQueen, Phillip
AU - Marcy, Geoffrey
AU - McCullough, Peter R.
AU - Morton, Timothy D.
AU - Narita, Norio
AU - Paegert, Martin
AU - Palle, Enric
AU - Pepe, Francesco
AU - Pepper, Joshua
AU - Quirrenbach, Andreas
AU - Rinehart, Stephen A.
AU - Sasselov, Dimitar
AU - Sato, Bun'Ei
AU - Seager, Sara
AU - Sozzetti, Alessandro
AU - Stassun, Keivan G.
AU - Sullivan, Peter
AU - Szentgyorgyi, Andrew
AU - Torres, Guillermo
AU - Udry, Stephane
AU - Villasenor, Joel
N1 - Funding Information:
Many people and institutions have generously supported TESS over the years, including: Aerospace Corporation, Google, the Kavli Foundation, the MIT Department of Physics, the MIT School of Science, Mr. Gregory E. Moore and Dr. Wynne Szeto, Mr. Richard M. Tavan, and Mr. Juan Carlos Torres. Extensive support has also been provided by NASA Headquarters, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and NASA's Ames Research Center (ARC) under the following grants and contracts: NNG09FD65C, NNX08BA61A, NNG12FG09C, and NNG14FC03C.
Funding Information:
Many people and institutions have generously supported TESS over the years, including: Aerospace Corporation, Google, the Kavli Foundation, the MIT Department of Physics, the MIT School of Science, Mr. Gregory E. Moore and Dr. Wynne Szeto, Mr. Richard M. Tavan, and Mr. Juan Carlos Torres. Extensive support has also been provided by NASA Headquarters, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and NASA’s Ames Research Center (ARC) under the following grants and contracts: NNG09FD65C, NNX08BA61A, NNG12FG09C, and NNG14FC03C. The authors also wish to thank the following individuals for their important scientific, technical, and other contributions to the mission: Charles Alcock, Fash Asad, Mark Bautz, Chet Beals, Dave Bearden, Marc Bernstein, Greg Berthiaume, Ed Bertschinger, Adam Burgasser, Barry Burke, Claude Canizares, Ben Cichy, Kris Clark, Dave Czajkowski, Debra Emmons, Jim Francis, Joe Gangestad, Bob Goeke, Jose Guzman, Kari Haworth, Greg Henning, Jackie Hewitt, Shane Hynes, Marc Kastner, Brian Lewis, Robert Lockwood, Gerry Luppino, Francois Martel, Bill Mayer, Chad Mendelsohn, Ed Morgan, Bill Oegerle, Randy Persinger, Ron Remillard, Matt Ritsko, Tim Sauerwein, Robbie Schingler, Joe Scillieri, Rob Simcoe, Tony Smith, Dave Strobel, Vyshi Suntharalingam, Jeff Volosin, Kim Wagenbach, Nick White, Pete Worden, and Maria Zuber.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - 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 2-year mission, TESS will employ four wide-field optical charge-coupled device cameras to monitor at least 200,000 main-sequence dwarf stars with IC≈4-13 for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. Each star will be observed for an interval ranging from 1 month to 1 year, depending mainly on the star's ecliptic latitude. The longest observing intervals will be for stars near the ecliptic poles, which are the optimal locations for follow-up observations with the James Webb Space Telescope. Brightness measurements of preselected target stars will be recorded every 2 min, and full frame images will be recorded every 30 min. TESS stars will be 10 to 100 times brighter than those surveyed by the pioneering Kepler mission. This will make TESS planets easier to characterize with follow-up observations. TESS is expected to find more than a thousand planets smaller than Neptune, including dozens that are comparable in size to the Earth. Public data releases will occur every 4 months, inviting immediate community-wide efforts to study the new planets. The TESS legacy will be a catalog of the nearest and brightest stars hosting transiting planets, which will endure as highly favorable targets for detailed investigations.
AB - 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 2-year mission, TESS will employ four wide-field optical charge-coupled device cameras to monitor at least 200,000 main-sequence dwarf stars with IC≈4-13 for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. Each star will be observed for an interval ranging from 1 month to 1 year, depending mainly on the star's ecliptic latitude. The longest observing intervals will be for stars near the ecliptic poles, which are the optimal locations for follow-up observations with the James Webb Space Telescope. Brightness measurements of preselected target stars will be recorded every 2 min, and full frame images will be recorded every 30 min. TESS stars will be 10 to 100 times brighter than those surveyed by the pioneering Kepler mission. This will make TESS planets easier to characterize with follow-up observations. TESS is expected to find more than a thousand planets smaller than Neptune, including dozens that are comparable in size to the Earth. Public data releases will occur every 4 months, inviting immediate community-wide efforts to study the new planets. The TESS legacy will be a catalog of the nearest and brightest stars hosting transiting planets, which will endure as highly favorable targets for detailed investigations.
KW - Exoplanet
KW - extrasolar planet
KW - photometry
KW - satellite
KW - transits
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U2 - 10.1117/1.JATIS.1.1.014003
DO - 10.1117/1.JATIS.1.1.014003
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85009465899
SN - 2329-4124
VL - 1
JO - Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
JF - Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems
IS - 1
M1 - 014003
ER -