J/MNRAS/513/102 TESS Triple-9 Catalog (Cacciapuoti+, 2022)
The TESS Triple-9 Catalog 999 uniformly vetted exoplanet candidates.
Cacciapuoti L., Kostov V.B., Kuchner M., Quintana E.V., Colon K.D.,
Brande J., Mullally S.E., Chance Q., Christiansen J.L., Ahlers J.P.,
Di Fraia M.Z., Durantini Luca H.A., Ienco R.M., Gallo F., De Lima L.T.,
Hyogo M., Andres-Carcasona M., Fornear A.U., De Lambilly J.S., Salik R.,
Yablonsky J.M., Wallace S., Acharya S.
<Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 513, 102-116 (2022)>
=2022MNRAS.513..102C 2022MNRAS.513..102C (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Exoplanets ; Stars, double and multiple ; Photometry ; Infrared ;
Optical ; Stars, diameters
Keywords: catalogues - planets and satellites
Abstract:
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected
thousands of exoplanet candidates since 2018, most of which have yet
to be confirmed. A key step in the confirmation process of these
candidates is ruling out false positives through vetting. Vetting also
eases the burden on follow-up observations, provides input for
demographics studies, and facilitates training machine learning
algorithms. Here, we present the TESS Triple-9 (TT9) catalog - a
uniformly vetted catalog containing dispositions for 999 exoplanet
candidates listed on ExoFOP-TESS, known as TESS Objects of Interest
(TOIs). The TT9 was produced using the Discovery And Vetting of
Exoplanets pipeline, dave, and utilizing the power of citizen science
as a part of the Planet Patrol project. More than 70 per cent of the
TOIs listed in the TT9 pass our diagnostic tests, and are thus marked
as true planet candidates. We flagged 144 candidates as false
positives, and identified 146 as potential false positives. At the
time of writing, the TT9 catalog contains ∼ 20 per cent of the entire
ExoFOP-TESS TOIs list, demonstrates the synergy between automated
tools and citizen science, and represents the first stage of our
efforts to vet all TOIs. Our final dispositions and comments are
collected in a supplementary table and the dave-generated files are
publicly available on ExoFOP TESS.
Description:
Here, we present the TESS Triple-9 (TT9) catalog of 999 uniformly
vetted exoplanet candidates detected in TESS data. The candidates were
identified by the community using the Science Processing Operations
Center pipeline (spoc, Jenkins et al. 2016SPIE.9913E..3EJ) and Quick
Look Pipeline (qlp, Huang et al. 2020RNAAS...4..204H 2020RNAAS...4..204H) pipelines, and
are listed on ExoFOP-TESS. To create the catalog, we vet the signals
employing the dave pipeline and citizen science. Specifically, each
candidate is analysed through dave and inspected by human vetters, and
also utilizing auxiliary information as provided by ExoFOP TESS. This
effort has been possible also thanks to the Planet Patrol project , a
NASA-led citizen science project hosted on Zooniverse through which a
group of citizen scientists interested in validating TESS planets
joined our science team. The main goal of Planet Patrol is to evaluate
the reliability of dave results with the help of volunteers. The
outcomes of the classifications have been implemented in dave to rule
out bad images and compute high-fidelity photocentre statistics. Soon
after the launch of the project, several citizen scientists expressed
interest in further helping the vetting efforts and, after joining the
science team, quickly became proficient vetters. These 'Superusers'
have been key to the success of this endeavour. The Superusers and the
science team members will be referred hereafter as 'vetters', (i.e see
section Introduction).
As presented in the section 4 The tess triple-9 catalog, our analysis
led to the vetting of 709 signals as true planet candidates (PC, i.e.
TOIs that have passed all our vetting tests). We identified 144 TOIs
as FPs and 146 as pFP. We put our vetting results and physical
parameters of the 999 TOIs systems in the table2.dat. More, comment
descriptions are contained in com.dat.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table2.dat 259 1001 TESS Triple-9 TT9 catalog the final result
of our work
com.dat 559 17 List of abbreviations used during the vetting
process
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See also:
J/A+A/551/A80 : WASP-80 photometric and radial velocity data (Triaud+, 2013)
IV/38 : TESS Input Catalog - v8.0 (TIC-8) (Stassun+, 2019)
IV/39 : TESS Input Catalog version 8.2 (TIC v8.2) (Paegert+, 2021)
I/350 : Gaia EDR3 (Gaia Collaboration, 2020)
V/133 : Kepler Input Catalog (Kepler Mission Team, 2009)
J/A+A/635/A205 : Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b transits (Bourrier+, 2020)
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu : Nasa exoplanet archive
https://exofop.ipac.caltech.edu/tess/ : ExoFOP-TESS online data archive
https://archive.stsci.edu/tess/tess_drn.html : TESS sector observations details
https://tess.mit.edu/observations/ : TESS observations
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 4 I4 --- ID Identifier record number (ID)
6- 14 I9 --- TIC TESS Input Catalog identifier (TICID)
16- 75 A60 --- ExoFOP Display the ExoFOP-TESS online data from
Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program website
(ExoFOP-TESS)
77- 107 A31 --- Sectors TESS Sectors (Sectors)
109- 119 F11.3 d Epoch Barycentric Julian Date epoch (Epoch [BJD])
121- 130 F10.6 d Per Orbital period (Period [Days])
132- 136 F5.2 h Duration Planet transit duration which is the time
from the moment the planet begins to cross
the stellar limb to the moment the planet
finishes crossing the stellar limb (Duration)
138- 145 F8.1 ppm Depth ? Planet transit depth which is the size of
the relative flux decrement caused by the
orbiting body transiting in front of the star
in ppm units (Depth)
147- 151 F5.2 % Depth% ? Planet transit depth which is the size of
the relative flux decrement caused by the
orbiting body transiting in front of the star
(Depth%)
153- 157 F5.2 Rjup Rp Planet radius which is the length of a line
segment from the center of the planet to its
surface (Rtranister [RJup])
159- 163 F5.2 Rsun Rs Stellar radius (Rstar [RSun])
165- 173 F9.6 mag TESSmag Calculated TESS magnitude (Tmag)
175- 179 A5 mag e_TESSmag Mean uncertainty of TESSmag (DeltaTmag)
181- 183 A3 --- Disp Vetting disposition from the section 2 The
vetting workflow (Paperdisp) (1)
185- 259 A75 --- Com Related general comments on vetting result
comment explanations in com.dat (Papercomm)
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Note (1): Vetting dispositions are as follows:
FP = False Positive, a TOI that does not (fully) pass the vetting
tests, 144 sources in our sample
pFP = Potential FP false positive, 146 sources in our sample
PC = Planet Candidate, a TOI that passed all vetting tests,
711 sources in our sample
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: com.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 9 A9 --- Abbrev Comment abbreviation (Abbreviation)
11- 41 A31 --- Mean Comment abbreviation meaning (Meaning)
43-559 A517 --- Des Comment description (Description)
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