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., Charbonneau, David, Deming, Drake, Dressing, Courtney D., Latham, David W., McCullough, Peter R., Morton, Timothy D., Winn, Joshua Nathan, Berta-Thompson, Zach, Woods, Deborah F., Levine, Alan M, Ricker, George R, Vanderspek, Roland K
Other Authors: Lincoln Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100041
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2058-6662
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100041
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2058-6662
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4265-047X

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