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Jon M. Jenkins , Joseph D. Twicken , Sean McCauliff , J. Campbell , Dwight T. Sanderfer , David Christopher Lung , Masoud Mansouri-Samani , Forrest R. Girouard , Peter Tenenbaum , Todd C. Klaus , Jeffrey C. Smith , Douglas A. Caldwell , A. D. Chacon , Christopher E. Henze , Cory Heiges , David W. Latham , E. Morgan , Daryl A. Swade , Stephen A. Rinehart , R. Vanderspek ·

YOU? · · 2016 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233418 · OA: W2499105366

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will conduct a search for Earths closest cousins starting in late 2017. TESS will discover approx.1,000 small planets and measure the masses of at least 50 of these small worlds. The Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC) is being developed based on the Kepler science pipeline and will generate calibrated pixels and light curves on the NAS Pleiades supercomputer. The SPOC will search for periodic transit events and generate validation products for the transit-like features in the light curves. All TESS SPOC data products will be archived to the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes.