TESSELLATE: Piecing Together the Variable Sky With TESS
Hugh Roxburgh, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Andrew Moore, Clarinda Montilla, Brayden Leicester, Zachary G. Lane, James Freeburn, Armin Rest, Michele T. Bannister, Andrew R. Ridden-Harper, Lancia Hubley, Qinan Wang, Rebekah Hounsell, Jeff Cooke, Dave A. Coulter, Michael M. Fausnaugh

TL;DR
TESSELLATE is a comprehensive pipeline that systematically detects and classifies variable phenomena, transients, and other signals in TESS data, creating an open catalog of the variable sky.
Contribution
It introduces a novel pipeline and survey for untargeted, wide-field analysis of TESS data, enabling discovery of diverse variable phenomena and transients.
Findings
Expected detection of numerous fast transients like FBOTs and GRB afterglows.
Identification of new variable stars and exoplanet candidates.
Recovery of known asteroids in TESS data.
Abstract
We present TESSELLATE, a dedicated pipeline for performing an untargeted search documenting all variable phenomena captured by the TESS space telescope. Building on the TESSreduce difference imaging pipeline, TESSELLATE extracts calibrated and reduced photometric data for every full frame image in the TESS archive. Using this data, we systematically identify transient, variable and non-sidereal signals across timescales ranging from minutes to weeks. The high cadence and wide field of view of TESS enables us to conduct a comprehensive search of the entire sky to a depth of ~17 . Based on the volumetric rates for known fast transients, we expect there to be numerous Fast Blue Optical Transients and Gamma Ray Burst afterglows present in the existing TESS dataset. Beyond transients, TESSELLATE can also identify new variable stars and exoplanet candidates, and recover known asteroids.…
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TopicsSilicone and Siloxane Chemistry
