TESS Bright Future

Presentation at the AAS233 TESS Evening Splinter summarizing why TESS has a bright future ahead of it.

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1. ’ Bright Future SUSAN E. MULLALLY, STScI
2. Kepler showed us that planets are common Batalha 2014
3. More than just planets -- Stars Model Red Giant interiors with Kepler/K2 Huber (2016) Yu 2018 Measure the oscillation amplitudes and spacings to model red giants. Use Kepler to map and date the Galactic Disk. 16,000 Kepler Red Giants
4. More than just planets – Binary Stars Eccentric Binaries KOI-54, Welsh+ (2011) Prsa+(2011)
5. More than just planets -- Supernova Supernova Ia, Dimitriadis (2018)
6. The Unexpected
7. TESS – Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite TimE series Survey Satellite Minutes -- Hours – Weeks -- Years TESS Data Release Notes – Sector 1
8. High Community Demand for Data 24 TB in 24 hrs
9. World-wide users Number of TESS data downloads by region. December 2018
10. Number of TESS data downloads by region. December 2018
11. Tools and Techniques Kepler/K2 GO Office
12. Tools and Techniques Starry by Luger EXOFAST by Eastman Allesfitter by Gunther Exoplanet by Foreman-Mackey
13. Archives Ready To Go ExoFOP-TESS MAST Portal
14. Presentations at AAS233 Xu Huang – MIT -- 209.08 Quick Look Pipeline to Find TESS Exoplanets in the FFI data Adina Feinstein – U. Chicago – 202.04 TESS Exoplanet Survey of the Southern Sky to look for Exoplanets Dana Louie – UMD – 140.10 Using MuSCAT and MuSCAT2 to distinguish TESS-discovered Exoplanets from False Positives Xinyu Yao – Lehigh University -- 422.05 Precovery of TESS Single Transits from KELT Carl Ziegler – UNC – 226.03 Death Stars? Understanding how tight binaries impact TESS planets with SOAR speckle Callista Christ – U. Chicago -- 140.15 Predicted yield of TESS TTV Measurements of Kepler Planets Mallory Harris – New College Florida – 140.13 Ephemeris Degeneration in TESS Targets
15. Presentations at AAS233 Ethan Kruse – Goddard -- 408.07D Hundreds of New Planet Candidates from K2 using EVEREST light curves Michael Henderson – Weselyan University --140.18 High Precision Photometry of Faint White Dwarf Stars from K2 Data Megan Ansdell– U. Berkley – 405.07 How can Machine Learning contribute to mining Kepler/K2 data? Sam Grunblatt – U. Hawaii -- 327.02D Planetary Archaeology: A Search for Transiting Planets Orbiting Evolved Stars with K2 Kristo Ment – CfA – 218.02 Mass of a second terrestrial planet orbiting the nearby M dwarf LHS 1140 Christina Hedges– NASA Ames – 123.02D Watery Worlds: A Uniform Analysis of Exoplanet Atmosphere Spectra Observed by HST Zoe Bell – Harvey Mudd – 465.07 Distribution of stellar rotation periods using light curve analysis of second phase Kepler data
16. Looking to the Future
17. Planetary Atmospheres with Hydrogen Sulfide Discovered with JWST Hedges, Yao, Wakeford et al., AJ, 2024 Future Discoveries Enabled by TESS Over Abundance of Small Exoplanets Found Around Nearby Stars Feinstein, Ansdell, Kruse et al., AJ, 2025 Population of Extremely Small Stellar Tidal Q Factors Grunblatt and Christ, AJ, 2021
18. Future Discoveries Enabled by TESS Population of Extremely Small Stellar Tidal Q Factors Grunblatt and Christ, AJ, 2022 “Some planets are rapidly spiraling into their stars. Is the Earth one of them? – Find out at 6pm.” FBC Nightly News, Sept 4, 2022
19. Aliens living closer than originally thought. Future Science Daily, June 2025 Future Headlines Enabled by TESS Exoplanets smell of rotten eggs. Tomorrow’s Science Examiner, July 2024
20. The End.
21. TESS’ yield Barclay, Pepper and Quintana (2018)
22. More than just planets -- Asteroids 900 Main Belt Asteroid Light Curves (Szbao 2016)