A TESS Search for Distant Solar System Planets: A Feasibility Study
Abstract
As the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) fulfills its primary mission it is executing an unprecedented all-sky survey with the potential to discover distant planets in our own solar system, as well as hundreds of Transneptunian Objects (TNOs) and Centaurs. We demonstrate that shift-and-stack techniques can be used to efficiently search the Full-Frame Image (FFI) data from the TESS mission and survey the entire sky for outer Solar System objects down to $\sim22^{nd}$ magnitude.
- Publication:
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Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- October 2019
- DOI:
- 10.3847/2515-5172/ab4ea6
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1910.06383
- Bibcode:
- 2019RNAAS...3..160H
- Keywords:
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- 207;
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- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Submitted to RNAAS