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
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
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.
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
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.