TESS WILL OBSERVE OVER 85% OF THE SKY IN FULL-FRAME IMAGES (FFIS). THE OVERLAP OF SECTORS NEAR THE ECLIPTIC POLES PROVIDES ~350 DAYS OF COVERAGE IN THE CONTINUOUS VIEWING ZONE (CVZ). THIS IS A VALUABLE PLACE TO SEARCH FOR PLANETS DUE TO THE LONG BASELINE. OVER 100 000 STARS ON THE CANDIDATE TARGET LIST IN THE CVZ WILL NOT HAVE 2-MIN DATA; SOME THESE WILL HOST OBSERVABLE TRANSITING EXOPLANETS. WE WILL DISCOVER MORE THAN 200 PLANETS IN THE CVZ USING FFIS AND SWIFTLY ADD THEM TO THE 2-MIN TARGET LIST AS TOOS. THE NEW 2- MIN DATA COMBINED WITH FFIS WILL PROVIDE A RICH DATASET TO CONSTRAIN PLANET AND STAR PROPERTIES SEARCH FOR ADDITIONAL PLANETS AND CONSTRAIN PLANET MASSES THROUGH TRANSIT TIMING VARIATIONS. THIS WORK PROVIDES A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE YIELD OF THE MOST VALUABLE PLANETS.
$50,000FY2020National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA
Seti Institute, Mountain View CA