Approved Guest Investigator programs
This page details the programs for execution by TESS
as part of the Guest Investigator program.
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 1-2 weeks before the start
of a sector.
You can click on the title of each program to read a summary
of the research objectives.
Cycle 1
Cycle 1 contains all targets proposed through the Guest Investigator program for the first year of the TESS mission. All programs are to observe sources in the Southern Ecliptic hemisphere.
Approved Cycle 1 programs
Click on the title to view the abstract.
| Program |
PI |
Title |
Type |
| G011047 |
Basu, Sarbani |
Investigating The Evolution Of Helium |
Large |
| G011103 |
Hartman, Joel |
Difference Imaging Of Star Clusters At Low Galactic Latitude |
Large |
| G011160 |
Huber, Daniel |
Light Curves From TESS Full-Frame Images |
Large |
| G011180 |
Dressing, Courtney |
Differential Planet Occurrence Rates For Cool Dwarfs |
Large |
| G011188 |
Pinsonneault, Marc |
All-Sky Galactic Archeology With Tess |
Large |
| G011200 |
Van Saders, Jennifer |
Stellar Surface Rotation, Angular Momentum Evolution, And Magnetism In Tess |
Large |
| G011237 |
Montet, Benjamin |
Performing The Most Comprehensive Exoplanet Survey Of The Southern Sky With TESS Full Frame Images |
Large |
| G011280 |
Rizzuto, Aaron |
Planet Formation At 10-20 Myr After Formation |
Large |
| G011098 |
Wehrle, Ann |
The Brightest Blazars |
Small |
| G011100 |
Schnittman, Jeremy |
Darkness In Our Midst: Self-Lensing Search For Black Holes And Neutron Stars In The Local Stellar Neighborhood |
Small |
| G011108 |
Dawson, Rebekah |
Detection And Prioritization Of Warm Jupiters |
Small |
| G011112 |
Southworth, John |
A TESS Legacy Project: High-Precision Light Curves Of The Known Transiting Planetary Systems |
Small |
| G011113 |
Hermes, JJ |
White Dwarf Variability In The Ecliptic South |
Small |
| G011128 |
Czesla, Stefan |
Testing The Planet Hypothesis Of CVSO 30 B |
Small |
| G011130 |
Maxted, Pierre |
Tess Asteroseismology Of The Eclipsing Subgiant AI Phe |
Small |
| G011133 |
Pinsonneault, Marc |
Subgiants As Precision Tests Of Angular Momentum Evolution |
Small |
| G011153 |
Pineda, J. Sebastian |
Exploring The Variability Of Ultracool Dwarfs With Tess |
Small |
| G011155 |
Huber, Daniel |
Halo Photometry Of Naked-Eye Stars With Tess |
Small |
| G011163 |
Buzasi, Derek |
Revisiting The Past: B Star Asteroseismology With Tess |
Small |
| G011170 |
Douglas, Stephanie |
Constraining Stellar Rotational Evolution At The Zams |
Small |
| G011175 |
Mann, Andrew |
Searching For Infant Exoplanets In Young Moving Groups |
Small |
| G011183 |
Kane, Stephen |
Tess Observations Of Known Exoplanet Host Stars |
Small |
| G011190 |
Endl, Michael |
Planets Around Early-Type Stars: A TESS Search For Transiting Planets Around Lambda Bootis Stars |
Small |
| G011197 |
Agueros, Marcel |
No Longer On The Margins: Completing The Rotational Census Of Low-Mass Hyads With Tess |
Small |
| G011214 |
Bakos, Gaspar |
Tess Observations Of Transiting Planet Candidates From HAT |
Small |
| G011215 |
Berta-Thompson, Zachory |
Tools To Generate Variability Finder Charts |
Small |
| G011216 |
Dittmann, Jason |
Probing The Potential High Energy Environment In TheGJ1132 And LHS 1140 Systems |
Small |
| G011219 |
Ryan, Erin |
Understanding Giant Planet Migration In Our Solar System |
Small |
| G011221 |
Muirhead, Philip |
The Mass-Radius-Luminosity-Rotation Relation For M Dwarfs Determined From TESS Eclipsing Binaries |
Small |
| G011229 |
Pepper, Joshua |
Precovery Of Orbital Periods For TESS Single Transits With Kelt |
Small |
| G011231 |
Winters, Jennifer |
Legacy Light Curves Of A Volume-Complete Sample Of The Nearby Mid-To-Late M Dwarfs With Tess |
Small |
| G011264 |
Davenport, James |
Superflare Rates In GKM Stars With Tess |
Small |
| G011268 |
Scaringi, Simone |
Testing Self-Similar Accretion-Driven Variability In Compact Interacting Binaries |
Small |
| G011273 |
Metchev, Stanimir |
Ultra-Cool Dwarfs Viewed Equator-On: Surveying The Best Host Stars For Biosignature Detection In Transiting Exoplanets |
Small |
| G011285 |
Cody, Ann Marie |
A TESS Monitoring Survey Of Young Intermediate-Mass Stars |
Small |
| G011291 |
Quintana, Elisa |
Searching For Planets In The Continuous Viewing Zone With TESS Full Frame Image Data |
Small |
| G011294 |
Vanderburg, Andrew |
Disintegrating Rocky Bodies Transiting White Dwarfs: The Key To Understanding Exoplanet Compositions |
Small |
| G011299 |
Airapetian, Vladimir |
Evolving Magnetic Lives Of Young Suns |
Small |
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