Quick-Look Pipeline Light Curves for 5.7 Million Stars Observed Over the Second Year of TESS’ First Extended Mission

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Fausnaugh

| First 5 Authors: Michelle Kunimoto, Evan Tey, Willie Fong, Katharine Hesse, Avi Shporer

| Summary:

We present High-Level Science Products (HLSPs) containing light curves from
MIT’s Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP) from the second year of TESS’ first Extended
Mission (Sectors 40 – 55; 2021 July – 2022 September). In total, 12.2 million
per-sector light curves for 5.7 million unique stars were extracted from
10-minute cadence Full-Frame Images (FFIs) and are made available to the
community. As in previous deliveries, QLP HLSPs include both raw and detrended
flux time series for all observed stars brighter than TESS magnitude T = 13.5
mag. Starting in Sector 41, QLP also produces light curves for select fainter M
dwarfs. QLP has provided the community with one of the largest sources of
FFI-extracted light curves to date since the start of the TESS mission.

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