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

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: 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 - Searching For And Retrieving TESS Mission Products

Walkthroughs: Browser-Based

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 - Explore the TESS Pixel Response Function

Walkthroughs:  Using API

Work with the FITS formatted TESS PRFs to extract an image that 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.