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The TESS mission has several data products ranging from the TESS input catalog to a catalog of planet candidates. Here we give an overview of what information is in each data product, how it is produced and how the data is formatted.

Photometric Data

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Products

Graphical view of TESS Data Products

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  • TESS Input Catalog (TIC): Catalog of stars used by the TESS mission to select targets to download at short cadence. The TIC is available through the MAST portal and via the API.
  • Catalog Target List (CTL): Subset of the TIC containing each science groups priorities to obtain short cadence observations.
  • Merged Target List:

Planet Search Products

For each TCE found, the following products are produced by the TESS Science Processing Pipeline.

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