- Title
- Identification of the top TESS objects of interest for atmospheric characterization of transiting exoplanets with JWST
- Creator
- Hord, Benjamin J.; Kempton, Eliza M.-R.; Collins, Karen A.; McLeod, Kim K.; Michaels, Edward J.; Mocnik, Teo; Mori, Mayuko; Mraz, Georgia; Muñoz, Jose A.; Narita, Norio; Natarajan, Krupa; Nielsen, Louise Dyregaard; Osborn, Hugh; Watkins, Cristilyn N.; Palle, Enric; Panahi, Aviad; Papini, Riccardo; Plavchan, Peter; Polanski, Alex S.; Popowicz, Adam; Pozuelos, Francisco J.; Quinn, Samuel N.; Radford, Don J.; Reed, Phillip A.; Bean, Jacob; Relles, Howard M.; Rice, Malena; Robertson, Paul; Rodriguez, Joseph E.; Rosenthal, Lee J.; Rubenzahl, Ryan A.; Schanche, Nicole; Schlieder, Joshua; Schwarz, Richard P.; Sefako, Ramotholo; Cowan, Nicolas B.; Shporer, Avi; Sozzetti, Alessandro; Srdoc, Gregor; Stockdale, Chris; Tarasenkov, Alexander; Tan, Thiam-Guan; Timmermans, Mathilde; Ting, Eric B.; Van Zandt, Judah; Vignes, JP; Daylan, Tansu; Waite, Ian; Watanabe, Noriharu; Weiss, Lauren M.; Wittrock, Justin; Zhou, George; Ziegler, Carl; Zucker, Shay; Morley, Caroline V.; Ih, Jegug; Baker, David; Barkaoui, Khalid; Batalha, Natalie M.; Evans-Soma, Thomas M.; Behmard, Aida; Belinski, Alexander; Benkhaldoun, Zouhair; Benni, Paul; Bernacki, Krzysztof; Bieryla, Allyson; Binnenfeld, Avraham; Bosch-Cabot, Pau; Bouchy, François; Bozza, Valerio; Latham, David W.; Brahm, Rafael; Buchhave, Lars A.; Calkins, Michael; Chontos, Ashley; Clark, Catherine A.; Cloutier, Ryan; Cointepas, Marion; Collins, Kevin I.; Conti, Dennis M.; Crossfield, Ian J. M.; Ciardi, David R.; Dai, Fei; de Leon, Jerome P.; Dransfield, Georgina; Dressing, Courtney; Dustor, Adam; Esquerdo, Gilbert; Evans, Phil; Fajardo-Acosta, Sergio B.; Fiolka, Jerzy; Fores-Toribio, Raquel; Dragomir, Diana; Frasca, Antonio; Fukui, Akihiko; Fulton, Benjamin; Furlan, Elise; Gan, Tianjun; Gandolfi, Davide; Ghachoui, Mourad; Giacalone, Steven; Gilbert, Emily A.; Gillon, Michaël; Colón, Knicole D.; Girardin, Eric; Gonzales, Erica; Horta, Ferran Grau; Gregorio, Joao; Greklek-McKeon, Michael; Guerra, Pere; Hartman, J. D.; Hellier, Coel; Helm, Ian; Helminiak, Krzysztof G.; Ross, Gabrielle; Henning, Thomas; Hill, Michelle L.; Horne, Keith; Howard, Andrew W.; Howell, Steve B.; Huber, Daniel; Isopi, Giovanni; Jehin, Emmanuel; Jenkins, Jon M.; Jensen, Eric L. N.; Vanderburg, Andrew; Johnson, Marshall C.; Jordán, Andrés; Kane, Stephen R.; Kielkopf, John F.; Krushinsky, Vadim; Lasota, Sławomir; Lee, Elena; Lewin, Pablo; Livingston, John H.; Lubin, Jack; de Beurs, Zoe L.; Lund, Michael B.; Mallia, Franco; Mann, Christopher R.; Marino, Giuseppi; Maslennikova, Nataliia; Massey, Bob; Matson, Rachel; Matthews, Elisabeth; Mayo, Andrew W.; Mazeh, Tsevi
- Relation
- The Astronomical Journal Vol. 167, Issue 5, no. 233
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad3068
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2024
- Description
- JWST has ushered in an era of unprecedented ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While there are over 5000 confirmed planets, more than 4000 Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) planet candidates are still unconfirmed and many of the best planets for atmospheric characterization may remain to be identified. We present a sample of TESS planets and planet candidates that we identify as "best-in-class" for transmission and emission spectroscopy with JWST. These targets are sorted into bins across equilibrium temperature Teq and planetary radius Rp and are ranked by a transmission and an emission spectroscopy metric (TSM and ESM, respectively) within each bin. We perform cuts for expected signal size and stellar brightness to remove suboptimal targets for JWST. Of the 194 targets in the resulting sample, 103 are unconfirmed TESS planet candidates, also known as TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs). We perform vetting and statistical validation analyses on these 103 targets to determine which are likely planets and which are likely false positives, incorporating ground-based follow-up from the TESS Follow-up Observation Program to aid the vetting and validation process. We statistically validate 18 TOIs, marginally validate 31 TOIs to varying levels of confidence, deem 29 TOIs likely false positives, and leave the dispositions for four TOIs as inconclusive. Twenty-one of the 103 TOIs were confirmed independently over the course of our analysis. We intend for this work to serve as a community resource and motivate formal confirmation and mass measurements of each validated planet. We encourage more detailed analysis of individual targets by the community.
- Subject
- exoplanetary atmospheres; transmission and emission spectroscopy; extrasolar planet; planetary system; statistical validation analyses; exoplanets
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1515386
- Identifier
- uon:56893
- Identifier
- ISSN:0004-6256
- Rights
- Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
- Language
- eng
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