THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE: SIMULATIONS OF PLANET DETECTIONS AND ASTROPHYSICAL FALSE POSITIVES

THE TRANSITING EXOPLANET SURVEY SATELLITE: SIMULATIONS OF PLANET DETECTIONS AND ASTROPHYSICAL FALSE POSITIVES

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit bright host stars. Here, we predict the properties of the transiting planets that TESS will detect along with the EB stars that produce false-positive...

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Main Authors: Sullivan, Peter W. (Contributor), Charbonneau, David (Author), Deming, Drake (Author), Dressing, Courtney D. (Author), Latham, David W. (Author), McCullough, Peter R. (Author), Morton, Timothy D. (Author), Winn, Joshua Nathan (Contributor), Berta-Thompson, Zach (Contributor), Woods, Deborah F. (Contributor), Levine, Alan M (Author), Ricker, George R (Author), Vanderspek, Roland K (Author)
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Levine, Alan M. (Contributor), Ricker, George R. (Contributor), Vanderspek, Roland K. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: 2015-11-24T19:29:42Z.
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