TESS Science highlights from AAS 246

The 246th meeting of the American Astronomical Society was held from June 7-12 in Anchorage, Alaska. The meeting showcased a number of exciting science highlights gleaned from TESS data, including no less than 1 plenary talk, 7 oral presentations, and 20 posters that had significant contributions from TESS. In addition, the team from the MAST archive hosted a successful interactive workshop to get new users started with accessing TESS data. To learn more about the talks, you can check out the block schedule.

Below, we highlight the iPosters that utilize TESS data. These posters come from a range of science topics and scientist career stages (including a few high school projects!) It was amazing seeing the breadth of work being carried out with the help of TESS!

• The Young Open Cluster Danks 1 and An Anomalous Cepheid Pulsator

• TOI-2005 b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-Orbit Alignment

• Photometric Analysis of the Eclipsing Binary GDS J0737437-143532

• Thermal Eclipse Observation of the Young Hot Neptune AU Mic b with Spitzer

• A Signal in the Noise: Using Machine Learning to Improve TESS’s Systematic Error and Find More Planets

• Flare Temperatures, UV Fluxes, and Occurrence Rates for Four Young Cool Stars

• Probing Long Orbital Period Companions to Subdwarf B stars using the Pulsation Timing Method

• Rethinking KELT-5b: Fourier Modeling of a Transit about an Am Type Star

• Exoplanet Candidate Detection through TESS Light Curve Analysis

• TESS CROWDSAP Errors from White Dwarf Observations

• A New Frequency Analysis of the DY Pegasi Pulsation Cycle

• Photometric Analysis of Two β Cephei Stars and Their Host Cluster NGC 4755

• Characterizing TESS-Identified Quadruple and Higher Order Eclipsing Binaries with Speckle Imaging

• A Planet Search of the Kepler Field Using TESS-Gaia Light Curves in the Cloud

• Convolutional Neural Networks for Variable Star Classification from Raw Light Curves

• The spotty surface of the blue giant ξ Persei

• Properties of Stellar Flares Observed on Exoplanet Host Stars Using TESS 20-second Cadence Data

• Update from the TESS Science Support Center

• Multi-Band Photometry and Period, Magnitude, and Epoch Calculations of the Variable Star ASAS J103624-5752.7

• Confirming exoplanet candidates and searching for multi-planetary systems using transit photometry and timing variations

• Exoplanet TOI Transit Observations at the Grand Mesa Observatory for Undergraduate Research