Around which stars can TESS detect Earth-like planets? The Revised TESS Habitable Zone Catalog
L. Kaltenegger, J. Pepper, P. M. Christodoulou, K. Stassun, S. Quinn,, C. Burke

TL;DR
This paper identifies and catalogs stars observed by TESS that are suitable for detecting Earth-like planets in their habitable zones, providing a valuable resource for future exoplanet discovery and follow-up observations.
Contribution
The study creates the Revised TESS Habitable Zone Catalog, detailing stars observed long enough by TESS to potentially detect Earth-like planets, including known and candidate hosts.
Findings
Identified 4,239 stars suitable for Earth-like planet detection within 210pc.
9 known exoplanet hosts are in the catalog, with potential for additional discoveries.
37 stars host unconfirmed TESS Objects of Interest, including three in the habitable zone.
Abstract
In the search for life in the cosmos, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission has already monitored about 74% of the sky for transiting extrasolar planets, including potentially habitable worlds. However, TESS only observed a fraction of the stars long enough to be able to find planets like Earth. We use the primary mission data - the first two years of observations - and identify 4,239 stars within 210pc that TESS observed long enough to see 3 transits of an exoplanet that receives similar irradiation to Earth: 738 of these stars are located within 30pc. We provide reliable stellar parameters from the TESS Input Catalog that incorporates Gaia DR2 and also calculate the transit depth and radial velocity semi-amplitude for an Earth-analog planet. Of the 4,239 stars in the Revised TESS HZ Catalog, 9 are known exoplanet hosts - GJ 1061, GJ 1132, GJ 3512, GJ 685,…
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