TESS Planet Count and Papers

List of TESS Planets

Last updated:  12/15/2023

Total number of sectors: 70
Total number of TOIs: 7021

Total number of TOIs with Radii < 4 Earth Radii: 1386
Total number of Confirmed Planets: 410
Total number of False Positives: 1645

TESS Discovered Exoplanets

The confirmed planets on Exoplanet Archive listed here have appeared in peer-reviewed journals. There are many more planet discoveries, some with measured mass, and some with no mass measurement or a bound on mass, which are on arXiv.

¹ Planets detected through transit timing variations

² Referred to as “TOI-561 d” in Weiss et al. 2020

List of Publications

There have been many publications created from TESS data, such as: exoplanet discoveries, stellar variability, flares, and other interesting phenomena. Below you will find various lists publications from TESS team contributed papers to non-contributed papers.

TESS Discovered Exoplanets

TESS Science Team Discoveries

• Huang et al. (2018). “TESS Discovery of a Transiting Super-Earth in the π Mensae System.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 868: L39
• Vanderspek et al. (2019). “TESS Discovery of an Ultra-short-period Planet around the Nearby M Dwarf LHS 3844.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 871: L24
• Wang et al. (2019). “HD 202772A b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Around a Bright Mildly Evolved Star in a Visual Binary Discovered by TESS.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 51
• Nielsen et al. (2019). “A Jovian planet in a highly eccentric 11.5 day orbit around HD 1397 discovered by TESS.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. 623: A100
• Dragomir et al. (2019). “TESS Delivers Its First Earth-sized Planet and a Warm Sub-Neptune.”The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 875: L7.
• Jones et al. (2018). “HD2685 b: A Hot-Jupiter orbiting an early F-type star detected by TESS.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. 625: A16. 
• Rodriguez et al. (2019). “An Eccentric Massive Jupiter Orbiting a Sub-Giant on a 9.5 Day Period Discovered in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Full Frame Images.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 191.
• Huber et al. (2019). “A Hot Saturn Orbiting An Oscillating Late Subgiant Discovered by TESS.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 245.
• Kostov et al. (2019). “The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-Sized Planets Orbiting a Nearby M-dwarf.” The Astronomical Journal. 158: 32.
• Dumusque et al. (2019). “Hot, rocky and warm, puffy super-Earths orbiting TOI-402 (HD 15337).” Astronomy & Astrophysics. 627: A43.
• Gandolfi et al. (2019). “The Transiting Multi-planet System HD15337: Two Nearly Equal-mass Planets Straddling the Radius Gap.”The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 876: L24.
• Dawson et al. (2019). “TOI-216b and TOI-216c: Two warm, large exoplanets in or slightly wide of the 2:1 orbital resonance.” The Astronomical Journal. 158: 65.
• Newton et al. (2019). “TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): A Planet in the 45 Myr Tucana─Horologium Association.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 880: L17.
• Bakos et al. (2018). “HATS-71b: A giant planet transiting an M3 dwarf star in TESS Sector 1.” arXiv:1812.09406.
• Quinn et al. (2019). “Near-resonance in a system of sub-Neptunes from TESS.” arXiv:1901.09092.
• Günther et al. (2019). “A Super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes transiting the bright, nearby, and quiet M-dwarf TOI-270.” arXiv:1903.06107.
• Espinoza et al. (2019). “HD 213885b: A transiting 1-day-period super-Earth with an Earth-like composition around a bright (V=7.9) star unveiled by TESS.” arXiv:1903.07694.
• Vanderburg et al. (2019). “TESS Spots a Compact System of Super-Earths around the Naked-Eye Star HR 858.” arXiv:1905.05193.
• Daylan et al. (2020). “TESS discovery of a super-Earth and three sub-Neptunes hosted by the bright, Sun-like star HD 108236.” arXiv:2004.11314.

Community Discoveries

• Gandolfi et al. (2018). “TESS’s first planet: a super-Earth transiting the naked-eye star π Mensae.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. 619: L10.
• Trifonov et al. (2019). “TESS exoplanet candidates validated with HARPS archival data. A massive Neptune around GJ 143 and two Neptunes around HD 23472.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. 622: L7.
• King et al. (2019). “The XUV irradiation and likely atmospheric escape of the super-Earth π Men c.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484: L49.
• Brahm et al. (2018). “HD 1397b: A Transiting Warm Giant Planet Orbiting A V = 7.8 mag Subgiant Star Discovered by TESS.” The Astronomical Journal. 158: 45.
• Esposito et al. (2018). “HD 219666 b: a hot-Neptune from TESS Sector 1.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. 623: A165.
• Cloutier, R. (2018). “The Independent Discovery of Planet Candidates around Low-mass Stars and Astrophysical False Positives from the First Two TESS Sectors.” The Astronomical Journal. 158: 81.
• Leleu et al. (2019). “Co-orbital exoplanets from close-period candidates: the TOI-178 case.” Astronomy & Astrophysics. 624: A46.
• Kipping et al. (2019). “A resonant pair of warm giant planets revealed by TESS.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486: 4980.
• Cañas et al. (2019). “TOI-150: A Transiting Hot Jupiter in the TESS Southern CVZ.” The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 877: L29.

Previously Known Exoplanets

• Shporer et al. (2019). “TESS full orbital phase curve of the WASP-18b system.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 178.
• Bouma et al. (2019) “WASP-4b Arrived Early for the TESS Mission.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 217.
• Daylan et al. (2019). “TESS observations of the WASP-121 b phase curve.” arXiv:1909.03000.

General Astronomy with TESS

TESS Science Team Discoveries

• Barclay et al. (2018). “A Catalog of Stars Observed Simultaneously by Kepler and TESS.” Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 2, 192.

• Günther et al. (2019). “Stellar Flares from the First Tess Data Release: Exploring a New Sample of M-dwarfs.” arXiv:1901.00443.
• Zhan et al. (2019). “Complex Rotational Modulation of Rapidly Rotating M-Stars Observed with TESS.” arXiv:1903.02061.

Community Discoveries

• Balona et al. 2019. “Rotational modulation in TESS B stars.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 576.
• Pedersen et al. (2019). “Diverse Variability of O and B Stars Revealed from 2-minute Cadence Light Curves in Sectors 1 and 2 of the TESS Mission: Selection of an Asteroseismic Sample.” The Astrophysical Journal. 872: L9.
• Handler et al. (2019). “Asteroseismology of Massive Stars with the TESS Mission: The Runaway β Cep Pulsator PHL 346 = HN Aqr.” The Astrophysical Journal. 873: L4.
• Jayasinghe et al. (2019). “The ASAS-SN catalogue of variable stars III: variables in the southern TESS continuous viewing zone.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485: 961.
• Jayasinghe et al. (2018). “An Extreme Amplitude, Massive Heartbeat System in the LMC Characterized Using ASAS-SN and TESS.” arXiv:1901.00005.
• Osborn et al. (2019). “Rapid Classification of TESS Planet Candidates with Convolutional Neural Networks.” arXiv:1902.08544.
• Schofield et al. (2019). “The Asteroseismic Target List (ATL) for solar-like oscillators observed in 2-minute cadence with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).” arXiv:1901.10148.
• Littlefield et al. (2019). “Fast-Cadence TESS Photometry and Doppler Tomography of the Asynchronous Polar CD Ind: A Revised Accretion Geometry from Newly Proposed Spin and Orbital Periods.” arXiv:1903.00490.
• Feinstein et al. (2019). “eleanor: An open-source tool for extracting light curves from the TESS Full-Frame Images.” arXiv:1903.09152.

Selected Pre-Science Operations Papers

TESS Science Team Papers

• Ricker et al. (2014) “Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).” Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2014: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave 914320.
• Sullivan et al. (2015). “The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: Simulations of Planet Detections and Astrophysical False Positives.” The Astrophysical Journal. 809: 77.
  • Sullivan et al. (2017). “Erratum: “The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: Simulations of Planet Detections and Astrophysical False Positives” (2015, ApJ, 809, 77)” The Astrophysical Journal. 837: 99.
• Stassun et al. (2018). “Empirical Accurate Masses and Radii of Single Stars with TESS and Gaia.” The Astronomical Journal. 155: 22.

• Jenkins et al. (2018). “A Simulated Data Set for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.” Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. 2: 47.
• Muirhead et al. (2018). “A Catalog of Cool Dwarf Targets for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.” The Astronomical Journal. 155: 180.
• Stassun et al. (2018). “The TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List.” The Astronomical Journal. 156: 102.
  • Stassun et al. (2018). “Erratum: “The TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List” (2018, AJ, 156, 102).” The Astronomical Journal. 156: 183.
• Barclay et al. (2018). “A Revised Exoplanet Yield from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 239: 2.
• Collins et al. (2018). “The KELT Follow-up Network and Transit False-positive Catalog: Pre-vetted False Positives for TESS.” The Astronomical Journal. 156: 234.
• Burt et al. (2018). “Simulating the M─R Relation from APF Follow-up of TESS Targets: Survey Design and Strategies for Overcoming Mass Biases.” The Astronomical Journal. 156: 255.
• Villanueva et al. (2019). “An Estimate of the Yield of Single-transit Planetary Events from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 84.
• Crossfield et al. (2018). “A TESS Dress Rehearsal: Planetary Candidates and Variables from K2 Campaign 17.” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 239: 5.
• Pál et al. (2018). “TESS in the Solar System.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 130: 114503.
• Ballard et al. (2019). “Predicted Number, Multiplicity, and Orbital Dynamics of TESS M-dwarf Exoplanets.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 113.
• Huang et al. (2018). “Expected Yields of Planet discoveries from the TESS primary and extended missions.” arXiv:1807.11129.

Community Papers

• Holwerda et al. (2018). “TESS as a Low-surface-brightness Observatory.” Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society. 2: 53.
• Ball et al. (2018). “A Synthetic Sample of Short-cadence Solar-like Oscillators for TESS.” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 239: 34.
• Yao et. (2019). “Precovery of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Single Transits with Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope.” The Astronomical Journal 157: 37.
• Dalba et al. (2019). “Predicted Yield of Transits of Known Radial Velocity Exoplanets from the TESS Primary and Extended Missions.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 131: 34401.
• Greklek-McKeon et al. (2019). “Killing Planet Candidates with EVEREST.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 77.
• Goldberg et al. (2019). “Prospects for Refining Kepler  TTV Masses Using TESS Observations.” The Astronomical Journal. 157: 142.
• Masuda et al. (2018). “Prospects of Finding Detached Black Hole-Star Binaries with TESS.” arXiv:1808.10856.
• Hadden et al. (2018). “Prospects for TTV Detection and Dynamical Constraints with TESS.” arXiv:1811.01970.
• Bugnet et al. (2019). “FliPer_Class In search of solar-like pulsators among TESS targets.” arXiv:1902.09854.
• Deacon et al. (2019). “Data-driven stellar parameters for southern TESS FGK targets.” arXiv:1903.03115.