TASOC
Welcome to TESS Asteroseismic Science Operations Center
The TESS Asteroseismic Science Operations Center (TASOC) provides asteroseismological data from the NASA TESS mission to astronomers who are members of the TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium (TASC). It is also the platform used to facilitate the international collaborations within TASC.
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News
16th Aug 2022: Materials from the TASC6/KASC13 in Leuven
Materials from the TASC6/KASC13 workshop in Leuven, have been made available on TASOC. This includes all recordings, slides, posters and photos from the conference.
If you have any other material from the meeting that you would like to add to the page, please contact the TASOC administrator.
Thank you all for a very nice meeting, and hope to see you again next year in Hawai'i!
10th May 2022: TASC6 contributed talk abstract deadline: 16 May
The deadline for contributed talks for the TASC6/KASC13 workshop is on Monday 16 May. All details are available on the conference website: https://fys.kuleuven.be/ster/events/conferences/2020/tasc6
9th Mar 2022: TASC GI Cycle 5 Coordination
The TESS Guest Investigator (GI) office is soliciting proposals for the first year of the second extended mission, which is planned to start in September 2022. Like in the first extended mission TASC does not have reserved 2-minute and 20-second cadence targets, and hence GI proposals from TASC are important to ensure the selection of targets for asteroseismology. Note that the cadence for full-frame images in the second extended mission will be decreased to 200 seconds (Nyquist frequency of 216 c/d or 2500 µHz). More information on the GI program (including a proposal template) can be found here.
The proposal deadline for Cycle 5 is .
Similar to previous cycles, we set up a Cycle 5 GI coordination page on the TASOC Wiki to coordinate the submission of TASC Cycle 5 proposals.
If you are planning to submit a GI proposal and would like to coordinate, we recommend the following steps:
- Add your proposal information on the Cycle 5 GI coordination page. Teams with similar science cases are encouraged to coordinate. Non-US TASC members are encouraged to approach US-based TASC members (who are eligible for funding).
- Submit your target lists on the TASC Cycle 5 Proposal Submission Page. Note that 2-min and 20-sec target lists need to be submitted separately.
If you have any questions, concerns, or need help with putting together TASC GI proposals please contact the co-chairs of the TASC GI Coordinated Activity.
TESS News
28th Feb 2023: TESS Weekly Bulletin: Feb 28th
Welcome TESS followers to our latest news bulletin! This week, we are looking at three recent papers from the archive. Enjoy!
Temporal albedo variability in the phase curve of KELT-1b (Parviainen 2023) :
KELT-1b is a highly-irradiated transiting brown dwarf with an orbital period of 1.2 days producing prominent secondary …
16th Feb 2023: TESS Weekly Bulletin: Feb 16th
Welcome TESS followers to our latest news bulletin! This week, we are looking at three recent papers from the archive. Enjoy!
The Benchmark M Dwarf Eclipsing Binary CM Draconis With TESS: Spots, Flares and Ultra-Precise Parameters (Martin et al. 2023) :
CM Draconis is an eclipsing double-lined spectroscopic binary star composed …
2nd Feb 2023: TESS Special News Bulletin
Welcome TESS community to this special news bulletin!
We would like to inform you of an update to the Web TESS Viewing Tool (WTV). This tool has now been replaced by the new and improved TESS-point Web Tool, which has all the same functions, but is more precise and streamlined …
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