The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission

TL;DR

This paper presents the TESS Objects of Interest Catalog with 2,241 exoplanet candidates from TESS's two-year prime mission, highlighting new and recovered planets, especially small ones around bright stars, suitable for follow-up.

Contribution

The paper introduces the comprehensive TOI Catalog from TESS's prime mission, including new detection methods and a large dataset of small, nearby planet candidates.

Findings

Identified 2,241 exoplanet candidates from TESS data.

Catalog includes many small planets around bright stars.

Data products are publicly available for follow-up studies.

Abstract

We present 2,241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its two-year prime mission. We list these candidates in the TESS Objects of Interest (TOI) Catalog, which includes both new planet candidates found by TESS and previously-known planets recovered by TESS observations. We describe the process used to identify TOIs and investigate the characteristics of the new planet candidates, and discuss some notable TESS planet discoveries. The TOI Catalog includes an unprecedented number of small planet candidates around nearby bright stars, which are well-suited for detailed follow-up observations. The TESS data products for the Prime Mission (Sectors 1-26), including the TOI Catalog, light curves, full-frame images, and target pixel files, are publicly available on the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.