TESS reached a milestone. We now have over 5,000 exoplanet candidates. Scientists have a lot of work to do confirming them.
The high number of FPs in the primary mission might look shocking, but it’s an expected part of the process. The PM has the highest number of FPs and the highest number of Confirmed Planets. Why?
The detection data from the Extended Mission looks different. But that data hasn’t been scrutinized as much as the PM yet.747 PCs “The Faint Star TOIs so far account for 2033 TOIs, where 1617 were initially found using data from the Prime Mission and the latest batch of 416 have been from the Extended Mission,” Kunimoto said.So far, the FSS data contains a greater percentage of false positives than the other missions. That’s not unexpected.“I would also expect the Faint Star TOIs to have a higher false-positive rate than other kinds of TOIs,” Kunimoto said. “These are TOIs around stars as faint as TESS magnitude=13.
TESS found 4584 eclipsing binaries in sectors 1 to 26. EBs can be false positives, but they’re also an essential research topic and are one of the pillars of stellar astrophysics. So even when TESS detects false positives, it’s still sometimes a win for science. Image Credit:
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