The TESS science processing operations center

Jon M. Jenkins(Ames Research Center), Joseph D. Twicken(Ames Research Center), Sean McCauliff(Ames Research Center), J. Campbell(Ames Research Center), Dwight T. Sanderfer(Ames Research Center), David Christopher Lung(Ames Research Center), Masoud Mansouri-Samani(Ames Research Center), Forrest R. Girouard(Ames Research Center), Peter Tenenbaum(Ames Research Center), Todd C. Klaus(Ames Research Center), Jeffrey C. Smith(Ames Research Center), Douglas A. Caldwell(Ames Research Center), A. D. Chacon(Ames Research Center), Christopher E. Henze(Ames Research Center), Cory Heiges(Goddard Space Flight Center), David W. Latham(Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian), E. Morgan(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Daryl A. Swade(Space Telescope Science Institute), Stephen A. Rinehart(Goddard Space Flight Center), R. Vanderspek(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
August 8, 2016
10.1117/12.2233418
Cited by 1,021Open Access
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Abstract

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will conduct a search for Earth's closest cousins starting in early 2018 and is expected to discover &sim;1,000 small planets with R<sub>p</sub> &lt; 4 R<sub>&oplus;</sub> 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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