The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a high-precision photometric survey monitoring bright stars over almost the entire sky. Data is being made publicly available after each 27-day sector as 2 minute light-curves (for selected targets) and 30 minute full-frame images. In these session we will showcase some of the exciting science that is coming from TESS, including exoplanet discoveries and characterisation, asteroseismology, eclipsing binaries systems, stellar flares, and solar system studies. We will bring together a broad range of astrophysical research groups and institutes with the aim that these sessions will help researchers optimally utilise the TESS data. We will promote the exchange of ideas and techniques in relation to using the TESS data. We will review the nominal two-year TESS mission (ended in July 2020), and the extended mission (currently operating).
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Session 1
16:00 Nora Eisner “Planet Hunters TESS: findings from the first 2.5 years of people-powered planet hunting in TESS data”
16:15 Emily Hatt "TESS asteroseismology: new detections from main-sequence to subgiant stars:
16:30 Krystian Ilkiewicz “A look into accretion processes in cataclysmic variables with TESS”
16:45 Warrick Ball “Asteroseismology of solar-like oscillators with TESS: HD 38529 and 12 Boo”
17:00 Edward Bryant “Detecting giant planets around low-mass stars to understand how planets form”
17:15 Gavin Ramsay “TESS observations of flares and quasi-periodic pulsations from low mass stars”
Session 2
13:00 Laurel Kaye “Detection of Transit Timing Variations in the 3-planet system TOI-270”
13:15 Lauren Doyle “Magnetic Fields on Low Mass Ultra Fast Rotators using TESS, NOT and FORS2”
13:30 Georgina Dransfield “TESS Photometric Follow-up with SPECULOOS and ASTEP”
13:45 David Armstrong “The NCORES program: precision radial velocities of small TESS planets with HARPS”
14:00 Billy Edwards “TESS Synergies with Ariel and Twinkle”
14:15 Paul Strøm “The role of PLATO in the era of TESS extended missions”
Daniel Bayliss, Bill Chaplin, Sarah Casewell, Suzanne Aigrain, Vincent Van Eylen
Monday late afternoon and Tuesday early afternoon
All attendees are expected to show respect and courtesy to other attendees and staff, and to adhere to the NAM Code of Conduct.