TESS
The TESS team is looking forward to attending the upcoming AGU fall meeting meeting in New Orleans next week.
Members from both the TESS GI and MIT offices will be there staffing a booth all week, both in person and virtually, allowing us to serve as a live Helpdesk for all your TESS-related questions.
During the event Dr. Rebekah Hounsell will be holding two sessions in the learning area during which she will teach you, the user, how to find an exoplanet with TESS data. These sessions will be held on Tuesday December 14th, at 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm (CST), and Thursday December 16th, at 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm (CST). Below we provide the notebook which will be discussed during this tutorial, as well as a factsheet that might help first time TESS users.
| How To Find An Exoplanet | Download | In this tutorial, we teach the user how to find an exoplanet transit signal using TESS data. Please note that you should right click on the "Download" button to save the Jupyter notebook on your system. |
| AGU TESS Factsheet | Download | TESS Factsheet providing information about the mission, data products, analysis software, and how you can propose for targets. |
In addition, you can stop by the NASA traveling Hyperwall on Thursday, December 16th, at 5:00 pm - 5:15 pm (CST) when Dr. Avi Shpoer from MIT will present an overview of the TESS mission.
We hope you can join us at one or more of these activities! A summary of the TESS activities at the fall AGU is provided below with times listed in CST.
Monday, December 13th
- TESS Live Chat: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Virtual Platform
- TESS booth staffing: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Astro Table)
Tuesday, December 14th
- TESS booth staffing: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Astro Table)
- TESS Live Chat: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Virtual Platform)
- TESS booth staffing: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Astro Table)
- How to find an exoplanet with TESS data: 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Learning Area)
- TESS Live Chat: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Virtual Platform)
- TESS booth staffing: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Astro Table)
Wednesday, December 15th
- TESS booth staffing: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Astro Table)
- TESS booth staffing: 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Astro Table)
- TESS Live Chat: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Virtual Platform)
Thursday, December 16th
- How to find an exoplanet with TESS data: 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Learning Area)
- TESS booth staffing: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Astro Table)
- TESS Live Chat: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Virtual Platform)
- Overview of the TESS mission: 5:00 pm - 5:15 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Hyperwall Area)
Friday, December 17th
- TESS booth staffing: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (NASA Booth #741 - Astro Table)
- TESS Live Chat: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (Virtual Platform)
Note that you do not have to be registered for the AGU in order to view the NASA booth and take part in its events. You can simply go to https://go.nasa.gov/NASA_AGU2021 and register for free to view.