Deborah F. Woods

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: Simulations of Planet Detections and Astrophysical False Positives

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit bright host stars. Here, we predict the properties of the transiting planets that TESS will detect along with the eclipsing binary stars that produce false-positive photometric signals. The predictions are based on Monte Carlo simulations of the nearby population of stars, occurrence rates of planets derived from Kepler, and models for the photometric performance and sky coverage of the TESS cameras. We expect that TESS will find approximately 1700 transiting planets from 200,000 pre-selected target stars. This includes 556 planets smaller than twice the size of Earth, of which 419 are hosted by M dwarf stars and 137 are hosted by FGK dwarfs. Approximately 130 of the

The F/5 instrumentation suite for the Clay Telescope

R < 2~R_\oplus

Focus and alignment of the Space Surveillance Telescope: procedures and year 2 performance results

planets will have host stars brighter than K = 9. Approximately 48 of the planets with

Asteroid search operations with the space surveillance telescope

R < 2~R_\oplus

Detecting small asteroids with the Space Surveillance Telescope

lie within or near the habitable zone (

Testing and characterization of the TESS CCDs

0.2 < S/S_\oplus < 2

Expected Yields of Planet discoveries from the TESS primary and extended missions.

), and between 2-7 such planets have host stars brighter than K = 9. We also expect approximately 1100 detections of planets with radii 2-4 R_Earth, and 67 planets larger than

Erratum: “The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: Simulations of Planet Detections and Astrophysical False Positives” (2015, ApJ, 809, 77)

4~R_\oplus

WISDOM: the WIYN spectrograph for Doppler monitoring: a NASA-NSF concept for an extreme precision radial velocity instrument in support of TESS

. Additional planets larger than

The TESS camera: modeling and measurements with deep depletion devices

2~R_\oplus