False Alarms Revealed in a Planet Search of TESS Light Curves [EPA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01900


We examined the period distribution of transit-like signatures uncovered in a Box-Least Squares transit search of TESS light curves, and show significant pileups at periods related to instrumental and astrophysical noise sources. Signatures uncovered in a search of inverted light curves feature similar structures in the period distribution. Automated vetting methods will need to remove these excess detections, and light curve inversion appears to be a suitable method for simulating false alarms and designing new vetting metrics.

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M. Kunimoto, S. Bryson, T. Daylan, et. al.
Fri, 6 Jan 23
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Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, to be published in RNAAS