Approved Guest Investigator programs
This page details the Guest Investigator programs that will be executed by TESS during the second extension of its mission (September 2022-September 2025).
The target lists are posted on this page
as soon as the team has prepared the final target list
for upload to the spacecraft, which happens shortly before the start
of a sector.
You can click on the title of each program to read a summary
of the research objectives.
For GI programs executed as part of the primary mission (July 2018-July 2020) please see our primary mission proposals page .
For GI programs executed as part of the first extension of the mission (July 2020-September 2022) please see our first extension proposals page .
Cycle 5 contains all targets proposed through the Guest Investigator program for the fifth year of the TESS mission. Programs observe sources in the Northern ecliptic hemisphere (Sectors 56-60) and the Southern hemisphere (Sectors 61-69).
Approved Cycle 5 programs
Click on the title to view the abstract and targets.
| Program |
PI |
Title |
Type |
| GO5023 |
DRAGOMIR, DIANA |
TESS REACHES FOR COOLER PLANETS |
KEY PROJECT |
| GO5090 |
FARNHAM, TONY |
A TESS STUDY OF COMETARY DUST TRAILS: DELIVERY OF OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM DUST AND ORGANICS TO THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM |
LARGE |
| GO5104 |
BURDGE, KEVIN |
STUDYING MINUTE TIMESCALE VARIABILITY OF WHITE DWARFS IN THE CYCLE 5 TESS FULL FRAME IMAGES |
LARGE |
| GO5110 |
SHAPPEE, BENJAMIN |
THE TESS TRANSIENT PATROL |
LARGE |
| GO5154 |
COLLINS, KAREN |
THE CONFIRMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SMALL TESS PLANETS |
LARGE |
| GO5093 |
DEREKAS, ALIZ |
INVESTIGATING STAR-PLANET INTERACTIONS OF THE MISALIGNED EXOPLANET SYSTEM WASP-33 |
MINI |
| GO5015 |
HORD, BENJAMIN |
A SEARCH FOR COMPANIONS TO LONELY HOT JUPITERS |
MINI |
| GO5088 |
GOMEZ-MUNOZ, MARCO |
DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PLANETS AROUND HOT WHITE DWARF CANDIDATES |
MINI |
| GO5095 |
DOYLE, LAUREN |
EXOPLANET DEMOGRAPHICS: TRANSITING PLANETS AS PROBES OF STELLAR VARIABILITY AND PLANETARY ARCHITECTURES |
MINI |
| GO5061 |
MELIS, CARL |
AN ACID TEST OF TWO STELLAR AGE DATING METHODS |
MINI |
| GO5108 |
JAYARAMAN, RAHUL |
USING TESS TO STUDY TIDALLY TILTED PULSATORS |
MINI |
| GO5078 |
HELMINIAK, KRZYSZTOF |
TESS PHOTOMETRY OF A SAMPLE OF SB2 ECLIPSING BINARIES |
MINI |
| GO5101 |
MULLALLY, SUSAN |
SEARCHING FOR VARIABILITY IN SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC STANDARD STARS |
MINI |
| GO5070 |
MACGREGOR, MEREDITH |
THE ORIGIN AND IMPACT OF FLARES IN M DWARF SYSTEMS - THE OPTICAL AND MILLIMETER PERSPECTIVE |
MINI |
| GO5143 |
GUENTHER, MAXIMILIAN |
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE (+49) FLARY NIGHTS: A COMPREHENSIVE MINI-SURVEY OF FLARES AND EXOPLANETS |
MINI |
| GO5116 |
EMILIO, MARCELO |
SEARCH FOR OUTBURSTS OF BE STARS IN THE OBSERVATION FIELDS OF CYCLE 5 |
MINI |
| GO5094 |
SCARINGI, SIMONE |
EXPLORING ACCRETION PHYSICS IN ACCRETING COMPACT OBJECTS WITH TESS |
MINI |
| GO5144 |
HUBER, DANIEL |
PRECISE EXOPLANET TRANSITS FOR THE BRIGHTEST STARS USING TESS 20-SECOND CADENCE DATA |
SMALL |
| GO5115 |
ALOISI, ROBERT |
A SEARCH FOR HABITABLE-ZONE PLANETS AND THEIR PRECURSORS ORBITING WHITE DWARF STARS |
SMALL |
| GO5084 |
VANDERBURG, ANDREW |
DISINTEGRATING ROCKY BODIES TRANSITING WHITE DWARFS: THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING EXOPLANET COMPOSITIONS |
SMALL |
| GO5161 |
CALDWELL, DOUGLAS |
DETECTING AND VETTING PLANET CANDIDATES IN FFI DATA |
SMALL |
| GO5089 |
AHLERS, JOHNATHON |
JOINT TRANSIT AND ASTEROSEISMIC ANALYSIS OF WASP-33B |
SMALL |
| GO5036 |
BOWMAN, DOMINIC |
MASSIVE STAR ASTEROSEISMOLOGY: TESS LIGHT CURVES THAT SURPASS KEPLER |
SMALL |
| GO5162 |
TAYAR, JAMIE |
TESS S EAR ON THE METAL-POOR MILKY WAY |
SMALL |
| GO5024 |
MARTIN, DAVID |
USING ECLIPSING BINARIES TO DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE THE M-DWARF MASS-RADIUS-METALLICITY-TEMPERATURE RELATION |
SMALL |
| GO5155 |
HUBER, DANIEL |
ASTEROSEISMOLOGY OF BRIGHT SOLAR-TYPE STARS |
SMALL |
| GO5123 |
KIMAN, ROCIO |
REFINING THE SEARCH FOR M DWARF OSCILLATIONS USING TESS |
SMALL |
| GO5105 |
DAVENPORT, JAMES |
CHARACTERIZING ACTIVITY CYCLES WITH FLARES FROM TESS |
SMALL |
| GO5028 |
CURTIS, JASON |
WITNESSING STARS CONVERGE ONTO SLOWLY ROTATING SEQUENCES |
SMALL |
| GO5113 |
PINSONNEAULT, MARC |
ROTATION, STAR SPOTS AND ACTIVITY IN TESS CYCLE 5 |
SMALL |
| GO5107 |
THEISSEN, CHRISTOPHER |
A MAGNITUDE LIMITED SAMPLE OF M DWARFS TO STUDY THE SUPER-EARTH RATE ACROSS THE FULLY CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY |
SMALL |
| GO5106 |
GILLEN, EDWARD |
PLANETS AND STELLAR ACTIVITY THROUGH TIME: UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION, DIVERSITY AND HABITABILITY OF PLANETARY SYSTEMS |
SMALL |
| GO5112 |
JACKMAN, JAMES |
UNDERSTANDING THE FLARING ACTIVITY OF K STARS IN THE WHITE-LIGHT AND UV WITH TESS AND GALEX |
SMALL |
| GO5120 |
FAHERTY, JACQUELINE |
THE YOUNG SOLAR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH TESS |
SMALL |
| GO5150 |
MONSUE, TERESA |
MULTIWAVELENGTH TESS-SWIFT-NICER OBSERVATIONS OF PULSATIONS IN FLARES ON SOLAR-TYPE STARS |
SMALL |
| GO5132 |
HOLOIEN, THOMAS |
PROBING THE PHYSICS OF TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS WITH TESS |
SMALL |
| GO5053 |
BERRIMAN, GRAHAM |
AN ALL-SKY MOSAIC OF TESS FULL FRAME IMAGES |
SMALL |
| GO5153 |
RAPETTI, DAVID |
FLEXIBLE TOOLKIT TO COMPARE DETRENDING APPROACHES ON LARGE SAMPLES OF TESS LIGHT CURVES |
SMALL |
| GO5135 |
RIVERA SANDOVAL, LILIANA |
ACCRETION ON AM CVN STARS AS REVEALED BY TESS |
SMALL |
| GO5118 |
FAUSNAUGH, MICHAEL |
TESTING X-RAY REPROCESSING IN MRK 359 WITH TESS, NICER, AND SWIFT |
SMALL |
| GO5142 |
HARISH, SANTOSH |
SEARCH FOR VARIABLE AGN IN GREEN PEA GALAXIES USING TESS |
SMALL |
| GO5072 |
DAI, XINYU |
ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS OF OPTICAL GAMMA-RAY LAGS IN BLAZARS USING TESS FULL FRAME IMAGE LIGHT CURVES |
SMALL |
| GO5157 |
CURTIS, JASON |
ESTABLISHING BENCHMARK STAR CLUSTERS WITH TESS, ZTF, AND SPECTROSCOPY |
SMALL |
| GO5060 |
DALBA, PAUL |
TRACKING DOWN TESS'S LONG-PERIOD TRANSITS WITH A COORDINATED CITIZEN SCIENCE NETWORK |
SMALL |
| GO5022 |
COCHRAN, WILLIAM |
CONFIRMATION OF TESS GIANT PLANETS |
SMALL |
| GO5126 |
JACKMAN, JAMES |
SIMULTANEOUS SPACE AND GROUND-BASED FLARE PHOTOMETRY AND SPECTROSCOPY WITH TESS AND AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS |
SMALL |
| GO5103 |
GUENTHER, MAXIMILIAN |
A TALE OF SPACE AND GROUND: HUNTING FOR EXOPLANETS AND FLARES ON THE NEAREST LATE M DWARFS |
SMALL |
| GO5139 |
LABADIE-BARTZ, JONATHAN |
PULSATION AND DISKS OF BE STARS AS TRACERS OF STELLAR STRUCTURE, EVOLUTION, PULSATION-DRIVEN MASS LOSS, AND DISK PHYSICS |
SMALL |
| GO5045 |
JACKSON, BRIAN |
CONFIRMING ULTRA-HOT JUPITERS FROM TESS |
SMALL |
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