The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission
Natalia Guerrero, Sara Seager, Chelsea X. Huang, Andrew Vanderburg, Aylin García Soto, Ismael Mireles, Katharine Hesse, W. Fong, Ana Glidden, Avi Shporer, David W. Latham, Karen A. Collins, Samuel N. Quinn, Jennifer Burt, Diana Dragomir, Ian J. M. Crossfield, R. Vanderspek, Michael Fausnaugh, Christopher J. Burke, G. Ricker, Tansu Daylan, Zahra Essack, Maximilian N. Günther, H. P. Osborn, Joshua Pepper, Pamela Rowden, Lizhou Sha, Steven Villanueva, Daniel A. Yahalomi, Liang Yu, Sarah Ballard, Natalie M. Batalha, David Berardo, Ashley Chontos, Jason Dittmann, Gilbert A. Esquerdo, Mikal-Evans, Thomas, Rahul Jayaraman, Akshata Krishnamurthy, Dana R. Louie, Nicholas Mehrle, Prajwal Niraula, Benjamin V. Rackham, Joseph E. Rodriguez, Rowden, Stephen J. L., Clara Sousa‐Silva, David Watanabe, Ian Wong, Zhuchang Zhan, Goran Zivanovic, Jessie L. Christiansen, David R. Ciardi, M. Swain, Michael B. Lund, Susan E. Mullally, Scott W. Fleming, David R. Rodriguez, Patricia T. Boyd, Elisa V. Quintana, Thomas Barclay, Knicole D. Colón, Stephen A. Rinehart, Joshua E. Schlieder, Mark Clampin, Jon M. Jenkins, Joseph D. Twicken, Douglas A. Caldwell, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, Chris Henze, Jack J. Lissauer, Robert Morris, Mark E. Rose, Jeffrey C. Smith, Peter Tenenbaum, Eric B. Ting, Bill Wohler, G. Á. Bakos, Jacob L. Bean, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, Allyson Bieryla, Luke G. Bouma, Lars A. Buchhave, N. Butler, David Charbonneau, J. Doty, Jian Ge, Matthew J. Holman, Andrew W. Howard, Lisa Kaltenegger, Stephen R. Kane, H. Kjeldsen, Laura Kreidberg, Lin, Douglas N. C., Charlotte Minsky, Norio Narita, Martin Paegert, András Pál, Ε. Πάλλη, Dimitar Sasselov, Alton Spencer
Abstract
We present 2241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its 2 yr Prime Mission. We list these candidates in the TESS Objects of Interest (TOI) Catalog, which includes both new planet candidates found by TESS and previously known planets recovered by TESS observations. We describe the process used to identify TOIs, investigate the characteristics of the new planet candidates, and discuss some notable TESS planet discoveries. The TOI catalog includes an unprecedented number of small planet candidates around nearby bright stars, which are well suited for detailed follow-up observations. The TESS data products for the Prime Mission (sectors 1-26), including the TOI catalog, light curves, full-frame images, and target pixel files, are publicly available at the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.