TESS Planet Count and Papers

TESS light curves for π Mensae c or TOI 144.01 (Figure 2. of Huang et al. 2018). The lighter points represent short-cadence data (2-minute time integration), while the darker points are long-cadence (30-minute time integration). Top: the raw TESS light curve overlaid with black dashed lines to represent the location of momentum dumps, which is the deceleration of the instrument wheels. Middle: the detrended light curve--extra features were removed such as: stellar variability, instrument noise, etc. Bottom: the phase-folded light curve--all the transits superimposed onto each other with a red line fitting the binned data (every 5 minutes).

TESS light curves for Wasp-18b or TOI 185.01 (Figure 3. of Shporer et al. 2019). The top panel: the phase-folded light curve, after correcting for long-term trends, binned in 5-minute intervals (black points), along with the best-fit full phase curve model from our joint analysis (red line). Middle panel: same as top panel, but with an expanded vertical axis to detail the fitted phase curve modulation and secondary eclipse signal. The contributions to the phase curve from ellipsoidal (caused by the distortion of the star by the planet), atmospheric brightness (caused summation of the difference in the night-side and day-side temperature of the stellar light reflected by the tidally-locked planet’s atmosphere), and beaming (or or Doppler boosting, caused by the doppler shifting of the star’s spectrum as it orbits around the system’s center of mass) modulations are plotted individually with black solid, dot-dash, and dotted lines. Bottom panel: plot of the corresponding residuals from the best-fit model.

TESS light curves of M-dwarf TIC 25118964 (Figure 1. of Günther et al. 2019). Top: All of flares since the start of the sector. Bottom: the three flares detected for this object (green filled arrows) and a feature disregarded as potential noise (red unfilled arrow). The disregarded feature might be a small flare; however, the paper prioritizes avoiding false positives. Curves denote the local median (black line), the root mean square (RMS; red dashed line) and the flare detection threshold (green line).

The footprint of different TESS sectors for the primary mission (Figure. 2. of Huang et al. 2018). The labeled numbers correspond to the sequence of the observations in both hemispheres. Each sector will be observed for 27.4 days, with the first sector starting from late June, 2018. The points represent a random draw of stars from different sectors (the density of points represent the density of 2 min cadence targets at a given position).