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Wavelength Coverage
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky transit survey, whose principal goal is to detect Earth-sized planets orbiting bright stars that are amenable to follow-up observations to determine planet masses and atmospheric compositions. TESS will conduct high-precision photometry of more than 200,000 stars during a two-year mission with a cadence of approximately 2 minutes. These targets will be read-out as postage stamps and be made available to the community as target pixel files (TPFs) and calibrated light curves. In addition, the full image frame will be read out approximately every 30 minutes. These Full Frame Images (FFIs) will enable users to conduct photometry on any target within the 24x96 degree field-of-view.
Active From
April 2018 - Present
Resolution
21 arcseconds / pixel
Capabilities
- Time Series
- Photometry
- Imaging
Access all the publicly available TESS data directly in the AWS cloud. Calibrated and uncalibrated full frame images, two-minute cadence target pixel and light curve files, and co-trending basis vectors, and FFI cubes available on Amazon S3. Also accessible using astroquery.mast.
Featured Data Products
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December 06, 2018
TESS Archive Manual
The TESS Archive Manual website containing data product overviews, summaries of MAST tools, and tutorials on how to interact with TESS data at MAST.
