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BY COVERING A SOLID ANGLE NEARLY 400 TIMES LARGER THAN A SINGLE KEPLER/K2 FIELD PHOTOMETRY FROM TESS FULL FRAME IMAGES (FFIS) IS EXPECTED TO REVOLUTIONIZE TIME-DOMAIN ASTRONOMY OVER THE COMING YEARS. HOWEVER LIGHT CURVES FROM FFIS WILL NOT BE A STANDARD TESS DATA PRODUCT AND HENCE THE SUCCESS OF SCIENCE FROM FFIS RELIES ON EFFORTS BY THE COMMUNITY. HERE WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AND RUN A COMPLETE END-TO-END PHOTOMETRY PIPELINE FOR TESS FFI DATA PRODUCING ANALYSIS-READY LIGHT CURVES FOR ALL FFI SOURCES. USING POWERFUL COMPUTING RESOURCES AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPED THROUGH COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS WITHIN THE TESS ASTEROSEISMIC SCIENCE CONSORTIUM THE LIGHT CURVES PRODUCED IN THIS PROGRAM WILL ENABLE A VAST ARRAY OF SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS ACROSS STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS AND EXOPLANET SCIENCE.

$159,988FY2020National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA

University Of Hawaii, Honolulu

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