9–13 Feb 2026
University of Canterbury
Pacific/Auckland timezone

TESSELLATING the dynamic optical sky

9 Feb 2026, 16:20
20m
Rātā / Engineering Core Building (University of Canterbury)

Rātā / Engineering Core Building

University of Canterbury

63 Creyke Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand

Speaker

Ryan Ridden (University of Canterbury)

Description

In the last seven years TESS has given us a unique window into the dynamic universe. While intended for exoplanet discovery this telescope has observed all variety of transient and variable across the sky. Over its lifetime TESS has imaged the sky at cadences ranging from 30 minutes to just 200 seconds. In this talk I will give an overview of the time domain science possible with TESS, and outline the TESSELLATE pipeline which is conducting a systematic search of TESS full frame images.

Author

Ryan Ridden (University of Canterbury)

Co-authors

Armin Rest (STScI) Brayden Leicester (University of Canterbury) Clarinda Montilla (University of Canterbury) Jaime Luisi (University of Canterbury) Qinan Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Zachary Lane (University of Canterbury)

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