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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky transit survey, whose principal goal is to detect Earth-sized planets orbiting bright stars that are amenable to follow-up observations to determine planet masses and atmospheric compositions. TESS will conduct high-precision photometry of more than 200,000 stars during a two-year mission with a cadence of approximately 2 minutes. These targets will be read-out as postage stamps and be made available to the community as target pixel files (TPFs) and calibrated light curves. In addition, the full image frame will be read out approximately every 30 minutes. These Full Frame Images (FFIs) will enable users to conduct photometry on any target within the 24x96 degree field-of-view.
Active From
April 2018 - Present
Resolution
21 arcseconds / pixel
Capabilities
Time Series
Photometry
Imaging
Data Availability
Consult the
Data Holdings Table
to know which Sectors are available in MAST services and interfaces.
Access TESS data in TIKE, our free cloud computing environment that runs in your browser using JupyterLab. There's no need to download and analyze terabytes of data on your computer; instead, get started right away with quick data access and pre-installed software. Calibrated and uncalibrated full-frame images, two-minute cadence target pixel and light curve files, co-trending basis vectors, and FFI cubes are all available.
