Kavli Affiliate: George Ricker
| First 5 Authors: Michelle Kunimoto, Tansu Daylan, Natalia Guerrero, William Fong, Steve Bryson
| Summary:
We present the detection of 1,617 new transiting planet candidates,
identified in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) full-frame
images (FFIs) observed during the Primary Mission (Sectors 1 – 26). These
candidates were initially detected by the Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP), which
extracts FFI lightcurves for and searches all stars brighter than TESS
magnitude T = 13.5 mag in each sector. However, QLP heavily relies on manual
inspection for the identification of planet candidates, limiting vetting
efforts to planet-hosting stars brighter than T = 10.5 mag and leaving millions
of potential transit signals un-vetted. We describe an independent vetting
pipeline applied to QLP transit search results, incorporating both automated
vetting tests and manual inspection to identify promising planet candidates
around these fainter stars. The new candidates discovered by this ongoing
project will allow TESS to significantly improve the statistical power of
demographics studies of giant, close-in exoplanets.
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