The TESS science processing operations center

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Jenkins, Jon M.; Twicken, Joseph D.; McCauliff, Sean; Campbell, Jennifer; Sanderfer, Dwight; ... Show more
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will conduct a search for Earth's closest cousins starting in early 2018 and is expected to discover ∼1,000 small planets with R[subscript p] < 4 R[subscript ⊕] and measure the masses of at least 50 of these small worlds. The Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) is being developed at NASA Ames Research Center based on the Kepler science pipeline and will generate calibrated pixels and light curves on the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division's Pleiades supercomputer. The SPOC will also search for periodic transit events and generate validation products for the transit-like features in the light curves. All TESS SPOC data products will be archived to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST).
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2016-06
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116910
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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Proceedings Volume 9913, Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy IV
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SPIE
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Jenkins, Jon M., et al. "The TESS Science Processing Operations Center." 26 June - 1 July, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, edited by Gianluca Chiozzi and Juan C. Guzman, SPIE, 2016, p. 99133E. © 2016 COPYRIGHT SPIE.
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