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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…
The Pandora SmallSat: Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host Stars
Elisa V. Quintana, Knicole D. Colón, Gregory Mosby +24
Pandora is a SmallSat mission designed to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, and was selected as part of NASA's Astrophysics Pioneers Program. Transmission spectroscopy of transi…
Volatile Sample Return in the Solar System
Stefanie N. Milam, Jason P. Dworkin, Jamie E. Elsila +17
We advocate for the realization of volatile sample return from various destinations including: small bodies, the Moon, Mars, ocean worlds/satellites, and plumes. As part of recent…
Community Involvement in the WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey
David P. Bennett, Rachel Akeson, Thomas Barclay +22
WFIRST is NASA's first flagship mission with pre-defined core science programs to study dark energy and perform a statistical census of wide orbit exoplanets with a gravitational m…
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…