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This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 8 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 7 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 5 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 6 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 4 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the planetary transit search data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sectors 1-2 observations made with the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the planetary transit search data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sectors 1-3 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 3 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 2 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 1 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will conduct a search for Earth's closest cousins starting in early 2018 and is expected to discover approximately 1,000 small planets with R(sub p) less than 4 (solar radius) and measure the masses of at least 50 of these small worlds. The Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) is being developed at NASA Ames Research Center based on the Kepler science pipeline and will generate calibrated pixels and light curves on the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division's Pleiades supercomputer. The SPOC will also search for periodic transit events and generate validation products for the transit-like features in the light curves. All TESS SPOC data products will be archived to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST).
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will conduct a search for Earth’s closest cousins starting in late 2017. TESS will discover approx.1,000 small planets and measure the masses of at least 50 of these small worlds. The Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) is being developed based on the Kepler science pipeline and will generate calibrated pixels and light curves on the NAS Pleiades supercomputer. The SPOC will search for periodic transit events and generate validation products for the transit-like features in the light curves. All TESS SPOC data products will be archived to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.
The Explosive Transient Camera (ETC), an automatic wide-field sky monitor sensitive to short-timescale optical transients, has been operating in conjunction with BATSE since the launch of GRO. In this paper, we discuss the probability and implications of the ETC monitoring a part of the sky in which BATSE detects a gamma-ray burst.
The current configuration and performance of the Explosive Transient Camera (ETC), a wide-field sky monitor capable of detecting short-timescale optical transients, are briefly reviewed, as are plans for future improvements. The primary objective of the ETC is to detect an optical transient that is spatially and temporally coincident with a gamma-ray burster. However, the ETC is sensitive to all sources of short-timescale optical transients and will conduct a systematic survey of the night sky for all optical transients. Results of preliminary observations of the night sky conducted since January 1991 are summarized, and long-term variability searches with the ETC are discussed.