Quick-Look Pipeline Lightcurves for 9.1 Million Stars Observed Over the First Year of the TESS Extended Mission

Kavli Affiliate: George Ricker

| First 5 Authors: Michelle Kunimoto, Chelsea Huang, Evan Tey, Willie Fong, Katharine Hesse

| Summary:

We present a magnitude-limited set of lightcurves for stars observed over the
TESS Extended Mission, as extracted from full-frame images (FFIs) by MIT’s
Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP). QLP uses multi-aperture photometry to produce
lightcurves for ~1 million stars each 27.4-day sector, which are then searched
for exoplanet transits. The per-sector lightcurves for 9.1 million unique
targets observed over the first year of the Extended Mission (Sectors 27 – 39)
are available as High-Level Science Products (HLSP) on the Mikulski Archive for
Space Telescopes (MAST). As in our TESS Primary Mission QLP HLSP delivery
(Huang et al. 2020), our available data products include both raw and detrended
flux time series for all observed stars brighter than TESS magnitude T = 13.5,
providing the community with one of the largest sources of FFI-extracted
lightcurves to date.

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