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The TESS Triple-9 Catalog II: a new set of 999 uniformly-vetted exoplanet candidates
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is providing the
scientific community with millions of light curves of stars spread across the
whole sky. Since 2018 the telescope has detected thousands of planet candidates
that need to be meticulously scrutinized before being considered amenable
targets for follow-up programs. We present the second catalog of the Plant
Patrol citizen science project containing 999 uniformly-vetted exoplanet
candidates within the TESS ExoFOP archive. The catalog was produced by fully
exploiting the power of the Citizen Science Planet Patrol project. We vetted
TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) based on the results of Discovery And Vetting
of Exoplanets DAVE pipeline. We also implemented the Automatic Disposition
Generator, a custom procedure aimed at generating the final classification for
each TOI that was vetted by at least three vetters. The majority of the
candidates in our catalog, TOIs, passed the vetting process and were
labelled as planet candidates. We ruled out candidates as false positives
and flagged as potential false positives. Our final dispositions and
comments for all the planet candidates are provided as a publicly available
supplementary table.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication on MNRA
The TESS Triple-9 Catalog: 999 uniformly vetted candidate exoplanets
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected thousands of
exoplanet candidates since 2018, most of which have yet to be confirmed. A key
step in the confirmation process of these candidates is ruling out false
positives through vetting. Vetting also eases the burden on follow-up
observations, provides input for demographics studies, and facilitates training
machine learning algorithms. Here we present the TESS Triple-9 (TT9) catalog --
a uniformly-vetted catalog containing dispositions for 999 exoplanet candidates
listed on ExoFOP-TESS, known as TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs). The TT9 was
produced using the Discovery And Vetting of Exoplanets pipeline, DAVE, and
utilizing the power of citizen science as part of the Planet Patrol project.
More than 70% of the TOIs listed in the TT9 pass our diagnostic tests, and are
thus marked as true planetary candidates. We flagged 144 candidates as false
positives, and identified 146 as potential false positives. At the time of
writing, the TT9 catalog contains ~20% of the entire ExoFOP-TESS TOIs list,
demonstrates the synergy between automated tools and citizen science, and
represents the first stage of our efforts to vet all TOIs. The DAVE generated
results are publicly available on ExoFOP-TESS.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures. Accepted on MNRA