Questions tagged [tess]
Questions about the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
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Computing Algol's apparent magnitude from TESS observation data
A helpful developer downloaded a light curve of Algol from STScI's MAST service of the TESS archive for me.
Its content looks like this:
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What could successive double dips in the light-curve mean?
I was going through some analysis of the TESS light-curve data and I stumbled upon an interesting example (see below figures, where the blue line is simply a moving average), where the light-curve ...
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Do these results mean that I have found this exoplanet?
Yesterday I was going through the TESS mission data on mast portal and after applying some filters I found some data. I started analyzing that data using the lightkurve library.
plot without using the ...
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TESS sector of observations in RA/DEC vs lat/long
I'm trying to figure out WCS & just generic astronomical coordinates system, in order to better understand/use TESS data. I've been reading the mit docs, but I can't understand the reasons for ...
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Syntax for the naming of TESS data repository
I'm following this and downloading & displaying the TESS image file in matplotlib. That works great.
Now I'm trying to write myself a wrapper that allows me to specify in some config files what I ...
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Why is the TESS spacecraft finding fewer exoplanets than expected?
Judging from the Wikipedia page, I got the impression that TESS is underperforming, being expected to detect about 20000 candidate exoplanets in its primary two-year mission, but with only a few weeks ...
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Cannot plot Kepler FITS files with topcat in Windows
This is a continuation of my earlier question here. I was able to find Kepler data. Now I wanted to plot the data using Topcat. But when I tried to plot the data, I received error. Below is the error ...
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How to find Kepler/TESS data [duplicate]
I have some basic understanding of the Kepler/TESS mission. The missions both look at the stars and try to find the dip in the light from the stars to find possible existence of exoplanets (exomoons ...
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How can a Grade-11 Student avail TESS data and learn to process?
As mentioned, I am a Grade-11 student. I have always been interested in Data Processing activities. This sums up my experience of working on Asteroid hunt Campaign under IASC (International Asteroid ...
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A basic question about light curves
I'm new here, so if I've done anything wrong, please let me know.
I've been taking a look at some photometry data collected from TESS, and I encountered this light curve:
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How to query a region on the sky when given only ecliptic coordinates?
I am new at using the Python packages astropy/astroquery and what I want to achieve is to use it to find stars that lay on the TESS continuous view zone (CVZ).
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Any plans for TESS after it finishes northern sky survey?
TESS has provided the astronomy community with a treasure trove of information.
Once TESS completes its one year survey of the northern sky, are there any plans for an extended mission?
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How actively is Deep Learning being used in exoplanet identification?
Papers, like this one from Google, show that Deep Learning and Machine Learning are effective in detecting exoplanets from luminosity data provided by telescopes like TESS or Kepler.
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Obtaining TESS input catalog (TIC) IDs for Gaia `source_ids`?
The TESS input catalog (TIC) "uses the GAIA DR2 catalog as a base" according to the catalog's website. The Gaia DR2 database provides source_ids for each ...
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At what annual rate are new exoplanets being recognized? How does it compare to new asteroids?
I just read the BBC News article Exoplanet tally set to pass 4,000 mark
. It makes me wonder about the annual rate that new exoplanets being recognized, and how it compares to the rate of new ...
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Understanding expected TESS data structure
I'm interested in trying to use the data that will be returned by TESS to apply some machine learning/computer sciences concepts. I'm not sure yet what I want to try to do with it (though I have some ...
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What do "star noise" and "sky noise" refer to for TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)?
The eoPortal article for TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) gives a fairly in-depth summary of the space telescope design and planned operation. Some further background information on its ...
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