TESS Follow-up Observing Program Working Group (TFOP WG): The ExoFOP-TESS Website
Abstract
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe most of the sky over a period of two years, divided into 26 sectors that are each observed for ~27 days. TESS data are expected to produce hundreds of transiting planet candidates (PCs) per month and thousands over the two year nominal mission. The TFOP WG is a mission-led effort organized to efficiently provide follow-up observations to confirm candidates as planets or reject them as false positives. The primary goal of the TFOP WG is to facilitate achievement of the Level One Science Requirement to measure masses for 50 transiting planets smaller than 4 Earth radii. Secondary goals are to serve any science coming out of TESS and to foster communication and coordination both within the TESS Science Team and with the community at large. This poster presents the ExoFOP-TESS website which is used by the TESS Follow-up Observing Program Working Group and the general community to share information about observations, data and parameters derived from the observations, and notes about the targets. The ExoFOP-TESS site has all of the project identified planetary candidates, and all of the TFOPWG data is being uploaded to the ExoFOP-TESS site. The site is developed and operated by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute and can be found at https://exofop.ipac.caltech.edu
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #233
- Pub Date:
- January 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AAS...23314009A