The TESS objects of interest catalog from the TESS prime mission

NM Guerrero, S Seager, CX Huang… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS …

Kepler data validation II–transit model fitting and multiple-planet search

J Li, P Tenenbaum, JD Twicken, CJ Burke… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper discusses the transit model-fitting and multiple-planet search algorithms and
performance of the Kepler Science Data Processing Pipeline, developed by the Kepler …

Identifying exoplanets with deep learning. III. Automated triage and vetting of TESS candidates

L Yu, A Vanderburg, C Huang, CJ Shallue… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) presents us with an
unprecedented volume of space-based photometric observations that must be analyzed in …

Discovery and Vetting of Exoplanets. I. Benchmarking K2 Vetting Tools

VB Kostov, SE Mullally, EV Quintana… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We have adapted the algorithmic tools developed during the Kepler mission to vet the
quality of transit-like signals for use on the K2 mission data. Using the four sets of publicly …

37 new validated planets in overlapping K2 campaigns

JP De Leon, J Livingston, M Endl… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We analysed 68 candidate planetary systems first identified during Campaigns 5 and 6 (C5
and C6) of the NASA K2 mission. We set out to validate these systems by using a suite of …

Characterizing K2 candidate planetary systems orbiting low-mass stars. IV. Updated properties for 86 cool dwarfs observed during campaigns 1–17

CD Dressing, K Hardegree-Ullman… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present revised stellar properties for 172 K2 target stars that were identified as possible
hosts of transiting planets during Campaigns 1–17. Using medium-resolution near-infrared …

Follow-Up and Validation of K2 and TESS Planetary Systems With Keck NIRC2 Adaptive Optics Imaging

JE Schlieder, EJ Gonzales, DR Ciardi… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
High resolution imaging (HRI) is a critical part of the transiting exoplanet follow-up and
validation process. HRI allows previously unresolved stellar companions and background …

Deep long asymmetric occultation in EPIC 204376071

S Rappaport, G Zhou, A Vanderburg… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We have discovered a young M star of mass 0.16 M⊙ and radius 0.63 R⊙, likely in the
Upper Sco Association, that exhibits only a single 80 per cent deep occultation of 1-d …

Another Superdense Sub-Neptune in K2-182 b and Refined Mass Measurements for K2-199 b and c

JMA Murphy, MR Kosiarek, NM Batalha… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine multiple campaigns of K2 photometry with precision radial velocity
measurements from Keck-HIRES to measure the masses of three sub-Neptune-sized …

Transit least-squares survey-II. Discovery and validation of 17 new sub-to super-Earth-sized planets in multi-planet systems from K2

R Heller, M Hippke, K Rodenbeck - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019 - aanda.org
The extended Kepler mission (K2) has revealed more than 500 transiting planets in roughly
500 000 stellar light curves. All of these were found either with the box least-squares …