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<ri:Resource created="2019-04-08T14:53:43Z" status="active" updated="2025-06-13T15:25:00Z" version="1.2" xmlns:cs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/ConeSearch/v1.0" xmlns:ri="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/RegistryInterface/v1.0" xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0" xmlns:vs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/ConeSearch/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/ConeSearch.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VOResource.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VODataService.xsd" xsi:type="vs:CatalogService"><title>The TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List</title><shortName>J/AJ/156/102</shortName><identifier>ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/102</identifier><altIdentifier>doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51560102</altIdentifier><curation><publisher ivo-id="ivo://CDS">CDS</publisher><creator><name>Stassun K.G.</name></creator><creator><name>Oelkers R.J.</name></creator><creator><name>Pepper J.</name></creator><creator><name>Paegert M.</name></creator><creator><name>De Lee N.</name></creator><creator><name>Torres G.,Latham D.W.</name></creator><creator><name>Charpinet S.</name></creator><creator><name>Dressing C.D.</name></creator><creator><name>Huber D.</name></creator><creator><name>Kane S.R.</name></creator><creator><name>Lepine S.,Mann A.</name></creator><creator><name>Muirhead P.S.</name></creator><creator><name>Rojas-Ayala B.</name></creator><creator><name>Silvotti R.</name></creator><creator><name>Fleming S.W.,Levine A.</name></creator><creator><name>Plavchan P.</name></creator><date role="Updated">2019-05-06T14:43:51Z</date><date role="Created">2019-04-08T14:53:43Z</date><contact><name>CDS support team</name><address>CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France</address><email>cds-question@unistra.fr</email></contact></curation><content><subject>stellar-radii</subject><subject>stellar-masses</subject><subject>infrared-photometry</subject><subject>visible-astronomy</subject><subject>sloan-photometry</subject><subject>proper-motions</subject><subject>trigonometric-parallax</subject><subject>stellar-distance</subject><subject>exoplanets</subject><description>The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be conducting a nearly all-sky photometric survey over two years, with a core mission goal to discover small transiting exoplanets orbiting nearby bright stars. It will obtain 30 minute cadence observations of all objects in the TESS fields of view, along with two-minute cadence observations of 200000-400000 selected stars. The choice of which stars to observe at the two-minute cadence is driven by the need to detect small transiting planets, which leads to the selection of primarily bright, cool dwarfs. We describe the catalogs assembled and the algorithms used to populate the TESS Input Catalog (TIC), including plans to update the TIC with the incorporation of the Gaia second data release (Cat. I/345) in the near future. We also describe a ranking system for prioritizing stars according to the smallest transiting planet detectable, and assemble a Candidate Target List (CTL) using that ranking. We discuss additional factors that affect the ability to photometrically detect and dynamically confirm small planets, and we note additional stellar populations of interest that may be added to the final target list. The TIC is available on the STScI MAST server, and an enhanced CTL is available through the Filtergraph data visualization portal system at the URL http://filtergraph.vanderbilt.edu/tess_ctl.</description><source format="bibcode">2018AJ....156..102S</source><referenceURL>https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/156/102</referenceURL><type>Catalog</type><contentLevel>Research</contentLevel><relationship><relationshipType>IsServedBy</relationshipType><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/TAP">TAP VizieR generic service</relatedResource></relationship><relationship><relationshipType>IsServedBy</relationshipType><relatedResource>Conesearch service</relatedResource></relationship><relationship><relationshipType>related-to</relationshipType><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/239">I/239 : The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/259">I/259 : The Tycho-2 Catalogue (Hog+ 2000)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/VII/233">VII/233 : The 2MASS Extended sources (IPAC/UMass, 2003-2006)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/337">I/337 : Gaia DR1 (Gaia Collaboration, 2016)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/I/345">I/345 : Gaia DR2 (Gaia Collaboration, 2018)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/A+ARV/18.67">J/other/A+ARV/18.67 : Accurate masses and radii of normal stars (Torres+, 2010)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/809/77">J/ApJ/809/77 : Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/155/180">J/AJ/155/180 : A catalog of cool dwarf targets for the TESS</relatedResource><relatedResource ivo-id="ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/239/2">J/ApJS/239/2 : Simulated exoplanets from TESS list of targets</relatedResource><relatedResource>http://filtergraph.com/tess_ctl : CTL filtergraph portal website</relatedResource></relationship></content><rights>https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html</rights><capability><interface xsi:type="vr:WebBrowser"><accessURL use="full">https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/156/102</accessURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at IUCAA: Pune, India">https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/156/102</mirrorURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at SAAO: SAAO, South Africa">http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/156/102</mirrorURL></interface></capability><capability><interface xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP"><accessURL use="base">https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/156/102</accessURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at IUCAA: Pune, India">https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/156/102</mirrorURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at SAAO: SAAO, South Africa">http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/AJ/156/102</mirrorURL><queryType>GET</queryType><resultType>text/xml+votable</resultType></interface></capability><capability standardID="ivo://ivoa.net/std/TAP#aux"><interface xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP" role="std"><accessURL use="base">https://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap</accessURL></interface></capability><capability xsi:type="cs:ConeSearch" standardID="ivo://ivoa.net/std/ConeSearch"><description>Cone search capability for table J/AJ/156/102/table9 (Candidate Target List (CTL) provided via the Filtergraph data visualization portal service)</description><interface xsi:type="vs:ParamHTTP" role="std"><accessURL use="base">https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/156/102/table9?</accessURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at IUCAA: Pune, India">https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/156/102/table9?</mirrorURL><mirrorURL title="VizieR at SAAO: SAAO, South Africa">http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/156/102/table9?</mirrorURL><queryType>GET</queryType><resultType>text/xml+votable</resultType></interface><maxSR>180.0</maxSR><maxRecords>50000</maxRecords><verbosity>true</verbosity><testQuery><ra>9.3968</ra><dec>-11.6253</dec><sr>0.005555555555555556</sr></testQuery></capability><coverage><spatial>0/0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11</spatial><spectral>8.157980699529898e-21 6.090060298487514e-19</spectral><footprint ivo-id="ivo://ivoa.net/std/moc">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/AJ/156/102?format=ascii</footprint><waveband>Optical</waveband><waveband>Infrared</waveband></coverage><tableset><schema><name>default</name><table><name>J/AJ/156/102/table9</name><description>Candidate Target List (CTL) provided via the Filtergraph data visualization portal service</description><column><name>HIP</name><description>[1/120401]? 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