TESSExtractor: A web-based interactive tool for light-curve visualisation and period estimation using TESS full-frame images

arXiv:2608.25113 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.SR

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Project page: https://www.tessextractor.app

Terminology

• Aperture — 43× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Photometry — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Contamination Metric — 3× in this paper
• Combined Differential Photometric Precision — 2× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — 2× in this paper
• Aperture Correction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cross-matching with the Difference Image Analysis — 1× in this paper
• Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes — 1× in this paper
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Periodical Noisy — 1× in this paper
• TESS Pixel Response Function — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Measurement of the angular momenta of pre-main-sequence stars: early evolution of slow and fast rotators and empirical constraints on spin-down torque mechanisms
• TESSreduce: transient focused TESS data reduction pipeline

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