Below we list tutorials that will help new users understand TESS data products and learn to use python tools to explore the data. Please note that these tutorials use Lightkurve v2.0. For more information and up-to-date tutorials specific to lightkurve, see the Lightkurve tutorials.
| Step 0: How to get lightkurve running on your machine | In this tutorial, we show how to get the lightkurve Python package set up on your machine for you to start working with TESS. | |
| An introduction to TESS data | Download | In this tutorial, we teach the user how to search for, download, and create TESS light curves. |
| Target Pixel File tutorial | Download | In this tutorial we learn about how to download TESS target pixel files from the archive, plot the data, access the metadata, and understand their properties and units. |
| Full Frame Image tutorial | Download | In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Lightkurve to download TESS Full Frame Images (FFIs) from the archive, cut out specific targets, plot the data, access the metadata, and understand their properties and units. |
| LightCurve object tutorial | Download | In this tutorial, we will learn how to use Lightkurve to create LightCurve objects using Simple Aperture Photometry, and plot up the resulting data. |
| LightCurveFile object tutorial | Download | Here we look at LightCurveFiles. Rather than being generated a Target Pixel File, these files have been pre-generated using NASA's TESS Data Processing Pipeline. |
| Aperture photometry tutorial | Download | Aperture photometry can be applied to TESS Target Pixel files in order to obtain light curves for an object of interest. |
| Making custom apertures Tutorial | Download | There are some cases where you might want to produce your own aperture, this tutorial shows you how. |
| Visual inspection tutorial | Download | In this tutorial we learn how to interactively inspect our object of interest. |
| Noise removal tutorial | Download | In this tutorial, we introduce the user to the Corrector class. We use these correctors to remove scattered light and noise from our data. |
| Correcting for crowding | Download | In this tutorial, we examine crowding of targets and how to correct for it. |
| Cosmic ray mitigation | Download | In this tutorial, we examine how TESS addresses cosmic rays in different data products. |
Additional Tutorials
In addition to the above tutorials written by the TESS Science Support Center, there are several other resources for finding and using TESS data. Please check out the links below for more information.
- Tutorials on how to use TESS data with the lightkurve package specifically can be found here.
- Data search tutorials from MAST can be found here.
- Python notebooks from MAST for TESS can be found here.
- Python notebooks from MAST for Kepler mission can be found here.
- Python notebooks from MAST for K2 mission can be found here.