Sources
Reading list
Sources used for method and context across the research program. The current register is from the TESS transit-timing project and is grouped by the role each source plays.
Every entry carries a DOI, an arXiv identifier, or an archive URL. The source of record is docs/TESS-LITERATURE.md, which lists the same sources with their verification state.
Mission and data
Instrument, catalogue, and archive context. These sources describe where the data come from, not what this project found.
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Ricker et al., "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite", Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems 1, 014003 (2015)
Mission context: instrument, orbit, cadence, and the public data model.
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Guerrero et al., "The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission", ApJS 254, 39 (2021)
Context for confirmed and candidate transiting planets and the scale of the candidate sample.
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Stassun et al., "The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List", AJ 158, 138 (2019)
Stellar parameters, contamination checks, and target selection.
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NASA Goddard, "TESS Data Products Information"
Target pixel files, light curves, cadence, quality flags, and product definitions.
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Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST)
Archive context for locating and retrieving public TESS products.
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NASA Exoplanet Archive
Published ephemerides and planetary parameters used as priors or comparison values.
Transit timing
Method and context for mid-transit times, ephemerides, and catalog-scale timing work. None of these entries validates this repository.
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Ivshina and Winn, "TESS Transit Timing of Hundreds of Hot Jupiters", ApJS 259, 62 (2022)
Method context for mid-transit timing, ephemeris updates, and catalog-scale timing work.
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Wang et al., "Long-term Variations in the Orbital Period of Hot Jupiters from Transit-timing Analysis Using TESS Survey Data", ApJS 270, 14 (2024)
Method context for long-baseline transit timing and period-change searches.
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Nabbie et al., "Transit-timing Variations in TESS: A Catalog from the First 5 yr", ApJS 285, 31 (2026)
Context for existing timing coverage through TESS sector 69 and for checking whether a sector is already covered.
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Naponiello, "A homogeneous transit-timing-variation investigation of all TESS systems with a confirmed single-transiting planet", A&A 705, A5 (2026)
Method context for homogeneous timing analysis of single-transiting systems.
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Agol and Fabrycky, "Transit Timing and Duration Variations for the Discovery and Characterization of Exoplanets in the TESS era", arXiv:1706.09849 (review, v4 2025)
Theory and precision-scaling context for transit timing and duration variations.
Models and inference
Transit shapes and sampling methods. These are the models a physical follow-up would use. The current real fits use a simpler trapezoid with fixed shape settings.
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Kreidberg, "batman: BAsic Transit Model cAlculatioN in Python", PASP 127, 1161 (2015)
Limb-darkened transit shapes and model parameter definitions.
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Foreman-Mackey et al., "emcee: The MCMC Hammer", PASP 125, 306 (2013)
Sampling method context for posterior inference.
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Foreman-Mackey et al., "exoplanet: Gradient-based probabilistic inference for exoplanet data and other astronomical time series", JOSS 6, 3285 (2021)
Inference method context for gradient-based transit fitting.
Software
One entry, because the repository reads TESS products with a general time-series library before applying its own code.
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Lightkurve Collaboration, "Lightkurve: Kepler and TESS time series analysis in Python", ASCL 1812.013 (2018)
Reading and handling TESS time-series products.
What the register does not do
It does not validate the two recorded single-transit fits, an ephemeris, or a timing residual. Those fits are checked against the committed analysis records, not against this reading list. The register justifies choices of data source, software, and analysis method.
The identifiers were checked offline by check_tess_refs.py. Network resolution is opt-in with --fetch.