The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List

By Keivan G. Stassun, R. Oelkers, M. Paegert, G. Torres, Joshua A. Pepper, N. D. Lee, K. Collins, D. Latham, P. Muirhead, J. Chittidi and 27 more. Astronomical Journal, 2019

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We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the revised TESS Input Catalog (TIC), based on the incorporation of the Gaia second data release. We also describe a revised ranking system for prioritizing stars for 2 minute cadence observations, and we assemble a revised Candidate Target List (CTL) using that ranking. The TIC is available on the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes server, and an enhanced CTL is available through the Filtergraph data visualization portal system at http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/tess_ctl.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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Citations in the corpus

• The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission (2021, background): “Additionally, the community produces millions of time series (Lund et al. 2015, 2017; Bouma et al. 2019; Feinstein et al. 2019; Nardiello et al. 2019; Oelkers & Stassun 2019; Caldwell et al. 2020; Montalto et al. 2020) from the FFIs that are not evaluated in this work.”
• The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V (2023, methodology): “To mitigate the complications of extinction, we used the 3D reddening information provided by TIC v8 (Stassun et al. 2019).”
• SOAR TESS Survey. I. Sculpting of TESS Planetary Systems by Stellar Companions (2019, methodology): “The TESS planet candidate hosts are relatively nearby: on average, less than half the distance of the Kepler hosts, based on the TIC distance estimates (Stassun et al. 2019).”