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most citedKepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science

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astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

TESS Science Processing Operations Center Photometric Precision Archival Product

Joseph D. Twicken, Jon M. Jenkins, Douglas A. Caldwell +11

We report the delivery to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST) of tables containing Root Mean Square (RMS) Combined Differential Photometric Precision (CDPP) values for…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

The TESS Mission Target Selection Procedure

Michael Fausnaugh, Ed Morgan, Roland Vanderspek +61

We describe the target selection procedure by which stars are selected for 2-minute and 20-second observations by TESS. We first list the technical requirements of the TESS instrum…

astro-ph.IM2021

TESS Data for Asteroseismology: Photometry

Rasmus Handberg, Mikkel N. Lund, Timothy R. White +12

Over the last two decades, asteroseismology has increasingly proven to be the observational tool of choice for the study of stellar physics, aided by the high quality of data avail…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 247 cited

Kepler Data Validation II -- Transit Model Fitting and Multiple-Planet Search

Jie Li, Peter Tenenbaum, Joseph D. Twicken +5

This paper discusses the transit model fitting and multiple-planet search algorithms and performance of the Kepler Science Data Processing Pipeline, developed by the Kepler Science…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 102 cited

Automatic Classification of Kepler Planetary Transit Candidates

Sean D. McCauliff, Jon M. Jenkins, Joseph Catanzarite +7

In the first three years of operation the Kepler mission found 3,697 planet candidates from a set of 18,406 transit-like features detected on over 200,000 distinct stars. Vetting c…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 170 cited

Identification of Background False Positives from Kepler Data

Stephen T. Bryson, Jon M. Jenkins, Ronald L. Gilliland +8

The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for Earth-size planets with the transit technique. The r…