A live search through NASA's TESS space telescope data for planets and stars nobody has catalogued. When a planet crosses in front of its star, the star dims a tiny bit on a repeating schedule. Every repeating dip and every pulsing star the search finds lands here as it happens. Vetting later throws out the fakes.
A dip that repeats at least twice with a steady depth. Most of these will turn out to be two stars eclipsing each other or plain noise. The real ones survive vetting. "Already known" means NASA lists it as a candidate too, which shows the search works.
| Star (TIC) | Brightness | Star temp | Orbit | Dip depth | Dip length | Signal | Status |
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Two stars orbiting each other and taking turns blocking the light. The dips are too deep, or alternate between deep and shallow, to be a planet.
| Star (TIC) | Brightness | Star temp | Period | Dip depth | Dip length | Signal | Status |
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Stars that brighten and fade on a regular rhythm: pulsing, spinning with starspots, or wobbling. Ones that aren't in any variable-star catalog can be reported as new discoveries.
| Star (TIC) | Brightness | Star temp | Period | Swing | Rhythm strength | Status |
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TESS measures the brightness of thousands of stars every 2 minutes for about 27 days per patch of sky. All of it is public.
Every star's brightness record is checked for a box-shaped dip that repeats on a schedule, and for any steady rhythm.
Known candidates, eclipsing binaries and catalogued variables get removed. Whatever is left and new is reported to NASA or the AAVSO.