Beginner: Ways To Query the TESS Input Catalog (TIC) and Candidate Target List (CTL)
Beginner - Search the TIC centered on HD 209458.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Search the TIC centered on HD 209458 to find all dwarfs in the catalogs.
Tools Used:
- Portal: Catalog Cone Search
- MAST Name Resolver
- Portal: Post-search Filtering
- Portal: Export Search Results Grid
Beginner - Find high proper motion M dwarfs in the southern hemisphere from the TIC.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Search for high proper motion M dwarfs in the southern hemisphere from the TIC.
Tools Used:
- Portal: Advanced Search
Beginner - Find southern hemisphere K dwarfs.
Walkthroughs Browser-Based | Using API
Find all southern hemisphere K dwarf stars based on TIC temperature.
Tools Used:
- CasJobs SQL Query Interface
Beginner - Search the exoCTL centered on K2 Campaign 2.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Search the exoCTL centered on the K2 Campaign 2 field.
Tools Used:
- Portal: Catalog Cone Search
- Portal: Export Search Results Grid
Beginner - Export a Portal table in the Goddard Mission Office format.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Select a subset of output columns to export from a Portal search results table.
Tools Used:
- Portal: Edit Columns
- Portal: Export Search Results Grid
Beginner: Reading and Using TESS Data Products
Beginner: Read And Display A Calibrated Full Frame Image (FFI)
Walkthroughs: Using API
Description here.
Tools Used:
- Tool 1
- Tool 2
Beginner: Read and Plot A Light Curve File
Walkthroughs: Using API
Description here.
Tools Used:
- Tool 1
- Tool 2
Beginner: Tour Light Curve and Target Pixel File Contents
Walkthroughs: Using API
Walk through the basic contents of the TESS 2-minute cadence, time-series files (light curve files and target pixel files.)
Tools Used:
- Astropy.io.fits
- Astropy.WCS
- Matplotlib.pyplot
Beginner: Read And Display A Target Pixel (TP) File and Aperture
Walkthroughs: Using API
Description here.
Tools Used:
- Tool 1
- Tool 2
Beginner: Read and Plot A Data Validation Time Series File
Walkthroughs: Using API
Description here.
Tools Used:
- Tool 1
- Tool 2
Beginner: Using MAST TESS Search Interfaces
Intermediate - Portal.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
A review of Portal functionality: pre-search filtering ("advanced search"), spatial cross-matching, plotting, Virtual Observatory searches based on TIC ID.
Tools Used:
- Portal: Advanced Search
- Portal: Cross-Match
- Portal: Virtual Observatory Search
Intermediate - TESSCut.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
An introduction to using TESSCut to make target pixel files from full frame images without downloading the original full frame images.
Tools Used:
- TESS Sector query
- TESSCut
Intermediate - TAP Service.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
A review of TAP services for TESS.
Tools Used:
- TAP
Intermediate - exo.mast.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
An introduction to exploring known planets and planet candidates (including TESS Objects of Interest, TOIs) using the exo.mast portal.
Tools Used:
- exo.mast
Intermediate: Science-Case-Driven Searches of TESS Data Products
Intermediate - Cone Search Centered On 47 Tuc.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Get TESS light curves for all 2-minute cadence targets within a specified radius centered on the globular cluster 47 Tuc.
Tools Used:
- Portal: Cone Search
- MAST Name Resolver
- Portal: Specify A Search Radius
- Portal: Add Data To Basket
- Portal: Filter Inside Basket For Specific Data Products
Intermediate - Look For Transients In FFI's In Nearby Galaxies.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Use FFI cutout tool to extract areas centered on nearby galaxies to search for extragalactic transients north of -30 degrees. The declination limit is chosen so that higher resolution PanSTARRS data are also available for post-detection analysis.
Tools Used:
- TESSCut
Intermediate - Make A Download Script From A GI Proposal.
Walkthroughs Browser-Based | Using API
Given a list of TIC or TOI IDs from a GI proposal, use a pre-bundled script to download all the target pixel files for those targets.
Tools Used:
- Tool 1
Intermediate - Get All Bright TESS Targets Inside the JWST Southern CVZ.
Walkthroughs Browser-Based | Using API
Do a pre-search filter to get all TESS 2-minute cadence targets that lie within the JWST Southern Continuous Viewing Zone that are brighter than a specified H magnitude and load those results inside the Portal.
Tools Used:
- CasJobs SQL Query Interface
Intermediate - Download UV and TESS Data For A List Of White Dwarfs.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Upload a target list of white dwarfs, cross-match with the TIC in Portal, then do a spatial cross-match of the resulting table with MAST footprints, filter on UV mission data, add UV data AND TESS products to basket, and download all files with a wget/cURL output option.
Tools Used:
- Portal: Target Upload
- Portal: Spatial Cross-Match With the TIC
- Portal: Spatial Cross-Match With MAST Observation Footprints
- Portal: Post-Search Filter
- Portal: Add Data To Basket
- Portal: Basket Download Options
Intermediate - Get All 2-Min. TESS Targets With Long-Period Kepler Transits.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Use MAST CasJobs to get the TESS target IDs that have 2-minute cadence data and a Kepler Threshold Crossing Event (TCE) with an orbital period greater than some specified value.
Tools Used:
- CasJobs SQL Query Interface
Intermediate - Download Bulk Bundles of TESS Data Products.
Walkthroughs Browser-Based | Using API
Use Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) at MAST to download pre-bundled collections of Full Frame Images from one camera from one sector and all extracted, 2-minute light curves in the JWST Southern Continuous Viewing Zone.
Tools Used:
- Tool 1