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5,000 worlds and counting: the success of TESS

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Are You Getting Better?

Every month the team that i work on processes data for about a million stars. We have an incredible amount of data to go through in just a single month. In my ph d, i developed a algaritm that could look through o planet search results and try to identify the best planet candidates from that list. So so far, the faint star search as added more than two thousand t ois to the five thousand total number. Terrific success.

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