We are pleased to announce the release of a software tool known as ticgen that an be used to calculate TESS magnitudes from various different bandpasses, and also calculates the TESS noise level for different brightness sources. The software is a command line tool and can be downloaded from our …
more ...The allocation of targets assigned to the Guest Investigator Program in Cycle 1 has been increased from 10,000 to 20,000 targets. Targets will be approximately evenly split over each of the 13 sectors, leading to around 1,500 targets per sector.
The primary aim of this increase is …
more ...The TESS team has been working together to plan how to merge lists of targets are that are to be observed at two-minute cadence. As a result of these discussions the mission is committing to observing at two-minute cadence all stars that fall into the TESS field of view that …
more ...UPDATE: the proposal deadline has been changed to October 6, 2017
We have made available a Microsoft Word format proposal template. The aim of creating this is to aid in preparing the proposal document and avoiding compliance issue. There is no requirement to use this template.
As a reminder, proposals …
more ...You can now submit TESS Cycle 1 proposals via the HEASARC's Remote Proposal System.
A few things to note are:
If you haven't used ARK/RPS before, get an account now (it's easy, but don't wait till the last minute)
Make sure your co-I's countries and institutions are recognized by …
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