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One Hit Wonders
Recovering the longest
period TESS planets
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TESS
is finding thousands of planets
that
transit
bright stars.
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But most of these planets will have short periods,
and orbit close to their host stars.
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TESS will observe a thousand long-period planets transit just once.
Without follow-up observations, most of these planets will be lost.
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The
One Hit Wonders
survey is hunting
the TESS single transit planets.*
We
began September 2019
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*why are these interesting?
Few long-period planets are known that transit bright stars.
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We expect
One Hit Wonders
to find many of these planets.
Studying these systems will help us better understand the atmospheres of cooler exoplanets.
Who we are
One Hit Wonders is:
PI: Carl Ziegler
Suresh Sivanandam
Adam Butko
Emily Deibert
Masen Lamb
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