TESS Science Processing Operations Center FFI Target List Products

TL;DR

This paper details the delivery of processed target pixel and light curve data for up to 160,000 targets from TESS FFI observations, enhancing data accessibility and systematic error correction for the astronomical community.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive set of high-quality, uniform pipeline products for FFI targets, including target pixels, light curves, and cotrending basis vectors, expanding data availability beyond 2-minute targets.

Findings

Delivery of calibrated target pixels and light curves for 160,000 targets.

Provision of cotrending basis vectors for systematic error correction.

Availability of data products at MAST as High Level Science Products.

Abstract

We report the delivery to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes of target pixel and light curve files for up to 160,000 targets selected from full-frame images (FFI) for each TESS Northern hemisphere observing sector. The data include calibrated target pixels, simple aperture photometry flux time series, and presearch data conditioning corrected flux time series. These data provide TESS users with high quality, uniform pipeline products for a selection of FFI targets, that would otherwise not be readily available. Additionally, we deliver cotrending basis vectors derived from the FFI targets to allow users to perform their own systematic error corrections. The selected targets include all 2-minute targets and additional targets selected from the TESS Input Catalog with a maximum of 10,000 targets per sector on each of the sixteen TESS CCDs. The data products are in the same format as the project-delivered files for the TESS 2-minute targets. All of the TESS-SPOC data products are available at the MAST as a High Level Science Product via https://doi.org/10.17909/t9-wpz1-8s54.