Confirmation and Characterization of TESS Planet Candidates

The TESS Follow-up Observing Program Working Group (TFOP WG) has members from both the community and the TESS team working together to coordinate efforts toward the common goal of confirming and characterizing transiting planet candidates identified by TESS. The TFOP WG is organized into five Sub Groups that use different techniques and facilities for pursuing this goal: Seeing-limited Photometry (SG1), Recon Spectroscopy (SG2), High-Resolution Imaging (SG3), Precise Radial Velocities (SG4), and Space Photometry (SG5). ExoFOP-TESS is a web-based tool designed to archive results from follow-up observations of TESS Objects of Interest and to help coordinate the follow-up efforts. Details for the Sub Groups and ExoFop-TESS, including information on how to join, are presented by half a dozen posters at this meeting.