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A Revised Exoplanet Yield from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

  • Authors: Thomas Barclay, Joshua Pepper, and Elisa V. Quintana

2018 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 239 2.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Our simulations predict that TESS will detect a total of about 4400 planets orbiting stars on the CTL, of which 1300 will be observed at 2-minute cadence. Roughly 40 Earth-sized planets will be found, almost all of which are on the 2-minute target list. A total of 1000 super-Earths and mini-Neptunes will also be found. Many new giant planets will be discovered, primarily through FFI data. The numbers shown above the FFI bars are total planets and include the planets found in 2-minute cadence data.

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