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Reprocessed TESS data coming soon

The TESS mission will be delivering reprocessed data for Sectors 1-19. These data will be ingested into the MAST archive over the next few months. A full list of the changes to the data will be described in the Data Release Note 30 that will accompany the first set of …

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TESS activities at AAS

The TESS team is looking forward to attending the upcoming winter AAS meeting in Honolulu next month. There will be many new science results presented from the prime mission, and we will share plans for the first extended mission.

The TESS team will be there staffing a booth all week …

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Update on pointing for Sectors 24, 25, and 26

As previously announced, the field-of-view of the TESS camera array was shifted north by 31° with respect to its nominal pointing in Sectors 14, 15, and 16 in order to reduce the impact of scattered light from the Earth and Moon.

The TESS project has determined that photometry from TESS …

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Update on TESS data availability at MAST

In order to better inform the community of the arrival times of the TESS data into the archive, the MAST has changed how and when it will announce the arrival of new TESS data. A few days before the data ingest begins, the date will be placed on the TESS …

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