The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission

Creators: Guerrero, Natalia M.; Seager, S.; Huang, Chelsea X.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Soto, Aylin Garcia; Mireles, Ismael; Hesse, Katharine; Fong, William; Glidden, Ana; Shporer, Avi; Latham, David W.; Collins, Karen A.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Burt, Jennifer; Dragomir, Diana; Crossfield, Ian; Vanderspek, Roland; Fausnaugh, Michael; Burke, Christopher J.; Ricker, George; Daylan, Tansu; Essack, Zahra; Günther, Maximilian N.; Osborn, Hugh P.; Pepper, Joshua; Rowden, Pamela; Sha, Lizhou; Villanueva Jr., Steven; Yahalomi, Daniel A.; Yu, Liang; Ballard, Sarah; Batalha, Natalie M.; Berardo, David; Chontos, Ashley; Dittmann, Jason A.; Esquerdo, Gilbert A.; Mikal-Evans, Thomas; Jayaraman, Rahul; Krishnamurthy, Akshata; Louie, Dana R.; Mehrle, Nicholas; Niraula, Prajwal; Rackham, Benjamin V.; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Rowden, Stephen J. L.; Sousa-Silva, Clara; Watanabe, David; Wong, Ian; Zhan, Zhuchang; Zivanovic, Goran; Christiansen, Jessie L.; Ciardi, David R.; Swain, Melanie A.; Lund, Michael B.; Mullally, Susan E.; Fleming, Scott W.; Rodriguez, David R.; Boyd, Patricia T.; Quintana, Elisa V.; Barclay, Thomas; Colón, Knicole D.; Rinehart, S. A.; Schlieder, Joshua E.; Clampin, Mark; Jenkins, Jon M.; Twicken, Joseph D.; Caldwell, Douglas A.; Coughlin, Jeffrey L.; Henze, Chris; Lissauer, Jack J.; Morris, Robert L.; Rose, Mark E.; Smith, Jeffrey C.; Tenenbaum, Peter; Ting, Eric B.; Wohler, Bill; Bakos, G. Á.; Bean, Jacob L.; Berta-Thompson, Zachory K.; Bieryla, Allyson; Bouma, Luke G.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Butler, Nathaniel; Charbonneau, David; Doty, John P.; Ge, Jian; Holman, Matthew J.; Howard, Andrew W.; Kaltenegger, Lisa; Kane, Stephen R.; Kjeldsen, Hans; Kreidberg, Laura; Lin, Douglas N. C.; Minsky, Charlotte; Narita, Norio; Paegert, Martin; Pál, András; Palle, Enric; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; Spencer, Alton; Sozzetti, Alessandro; Stassun, Keivan G.; Torres, Guillermo; Udry, Stephane; Winn, Joshua N.

Abstract

We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS Objects of Interest (TOI) Catalog, which includes both new planet candidates found by TESS and previously known planets recovered by TESS observations. We describe the process used to identify TOIs, investigate the characteristics of the new planet candidates, and discuss some notable TESS planet discoveries. The TOI catalog includes an unprecedented number of small planet candidates around nearby bright stars, which are well suited for detailed follow-up observations. The TESS data products for the Prime Mission (sectors 1–26), including the TOI catalog, light curves, full-frame images, and target pixel files, are publicly available at the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.

Additional Information

© 2021. The American Astronomical Society. Received 2019 December 20; revised 2021 February 17; accepted 2021 February 17; published 2021 June 9. We thank the referee for the thoughtful comments that greatly improved the clarity of the paper. Funding for the TESS mission is provided by NASA's Science Mission directorate. We thank William Fong and Martin Owens for their contributions to the TSO software. This research has made use of the TESS Exoplanet Follow-up Observation Program website (ExoFOP-TESS), which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. This research has made use of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under the Exoplanet Exploration Program. This paper includes data collected with the TESS mission, obtained from the MAST data archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The analysis for this paper was done in part on the TESS Science Platform, a JupyterHub environment on Amazon Web Services that was deployed by the STScI. The STScI is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 526555. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC; https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System. Resources supporting this work were provided by the NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center for the production of the SPOC data products. A portion of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004) A.V.'s work was performed under contract with the California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory funded by NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program executed by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. D.D.'s work was supported in part by TESS Guest Investigator Program grant 80NSSC19K1727 and NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF2-51372.001-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS5-26555. H.K. acknowledges funding for the Stellar Astrophysics Centre provided by the Danish National Research Foundation (grant agreement No. DNRF106) I.J.M.C. acknowledges support from the NSF through grant AST-1824644 and NASA through Caltech/JPL grant RSA-1610091. This work is partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant Nos. JP18H01265 and JP18H05439 and JST PRESTO grant No. JPMJPR1775. K.S. acknowledges support from NASA 17-XRP17 2-0024. C.X.H. and M.N.G. acknowledge support from MIT's Kavli Institute as Juan Carlos Torres fellows. T.D. acknowledges support from MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research as a Kavli postdoctoral fellow. We acknowledge indigenous peoples as the traditional stewards of the land and the enduring relationship that exists between them and their traditional territories. The land on which this research was conducted is the traditional unceded territory of the Wampanoag Nation. We acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced occupation of their territory, and we honor and respect the many diverse indigenous people connected to this land on which we gather from time immemorial. Facilities: TESS - , MAST - , NASA Exoplanet Archive - , Gaia. - Software: QLP (Huang et al. 2020a, 2020b), SPOC (Jenkins 2020; Twicken et al. 2016), tica (M. Fausnaugh et al. 2021, in preparation), FITSH (Pál 2012), AstroNet (Yu et al. 2019), TEC, TEV, batman (Kreidberg 2015), nebuliser (Irwin 1985), emcee (Foreman-Mackey et al. 2013), vartools (Hartman & Bakos 2016), go (Meyerson 2014), TensorFlow (Abadi et al. 2015), h5py (Collette 2013), Astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013; Price-Whelan et al. 2018), astroquery (Ginsburg et al. 2019), matplotlib (Hunter 2007), pandas (Pandas Development Team 2020), Scipy (Virtanen et al. 2020), Numpy (Oliphant 2006).

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