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
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
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
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
Load and display a TESS full frame image, using the world coordinate system information to convert pixel to celestial coordinates in the plot.
Beginner: Read and Plot A Light Curve File
Walkthroughs: Using API
Load and plot the contents of a TESS light curve file. Plot the flux timeseries contained with the file, and display the pixels used in the photometric aperture.
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.)
Beginner: Read And Display A Target Pixel (TP) File and Aperture
Walkthroughs: Using API
Load and plot the contents of a TESS target pixel file. Display the flux values of the collected pixels from a single cadence. Identify the pixels used in the photometric aperture.
Beginner: Read and Plot A Data Validation Time Series File
Walkthroughs: Using API
Load and plot the contents of a TESS data validation timeseries file. Plot the detrended flux timeseries contained within the file.
Beginner: Using MAST TESS Search Interfaces
Beginner - Searching For And Retrieving TESS Mission Products
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Shows how to use the MAST Portal and/or astroquery.mast to search for TESS mission products, including pre- and post-search filtering, how to use the download basket, and how to specify for certain types of products when requesting a download.
Tools Used:
- astroquery
- Portal: Pre-search Filtering
- Portal: Post-search Filtering
- Portal: Download Basket
Beginner - Get Data Products For A Guest Investigator Proposal.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
Use advanced search in the Portal to find and download all data products for a given Guest Investigator Proposal ID.
Tools Used:
- Pre-constructed bulk download scripts (browser-based)
- Portal: Advanced Search (astroquery)
Beginner - TESSCut (API: with URL Requests).
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
A review of how to use TESSCut through the URL using the requests library in Python.
Tools Used:
- TESSCut GUI (browser-based)
- TESSCut (through URL requests)
Beginner - Introduction To exo.MAST.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
An introduction to exploring known planets and planet candidates (including TESS Threshold Crossing Events, TCEs) using the exo.MAST portal.
Tools Used:
- exo.mast
Beginner - Downloading Data Validation Products Through Astroquery
Walkthroughs: Using API
Shows how to download Data Validation (DV) products through astroquery.mast for a given object, and then shows how to display some of the contents.
Tools Used:
- astroquery
Beginner - Download All Full Frame Images By Sector.
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based
Use the pre-constructed bulk download scritps to retrieve large numbers of full frame images from MAST using cURL commands.
Tools Used:
- Pre-constructed bulk download scripts.
Beginner - TESSCut (API: with Astroquery).
Walkthroughs: Browser-Based | Using API
A review of how to use TESSCut in Astroquery to make a cutout of Full Frame Images.
Tools Used:
- TESSCut GUI (browser-based)
- TESSCut (Astroquery version)
Beginner - TAP Service.
Walkthroughs: Using API
How to use TAP services to get a footprint from a specific Sector+camera+chip TESS FFI and then do a search for TESS mission data products that fall within exactly that footprint on the sky.
Tools Used:
- TAP
Intermediate: Science-Case-Driven Searches of TESS Data Products
Note: The tutorials here will be created after Sector 1 and 2 data release. Do you have a suggestion for a science case you'd like to see? Send it to us as a MAST helpdesk email, or better yet, share your notebook with us!
Intermediate - Explore the TESS Pixel Response Function
Walkthroughs: Using API
Learn how to work with the FITS formatted TESS PRFs to extract an image the represents a single star located at a specified location on the detector. TESS PRF models provide the inter-pixel response and the across detector shape of a single star as it travels through the optics and falls on the detector.
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 - 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