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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


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