LATTE: Lightcurve Analysis Tool for Transiting Exoplanets

Abstract

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS, Ricker et al., 2015) is the first nearly allsky space-based exoplanet search mission. During the nominal two year primary mission alone, TESS will monitor over 80 per cent of the sky with the prime objective of discovering transiting exoplanets around 200,000 pre-selected bright nearby stars, which are being monitored every two minutes. In addition to these short-cadence observations, TESS is obtaining Full Frame Images (FFIs) every thirty minutes, which include brightness measurements of millions of additional stars.