Sentences with phrase «tess team expects»
Of the 5000 transitlike signals that the TESS team expects to detect, the clearest will be chosen for ground - based follow - up, says MIT's Sara Seager, the mission's deputy science director.
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Joshua Winn, an associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former member of the Kepler team, said that efficient methods to confirm planets will become more crucial as NASA plans and launches more space telescopes, such as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which is expected to find tens of thousands of exoplanets.
«TESS is expected to find more than a thousand planets smaller than Neptune, including dozens that are comparable in size to the Earth,» added a team led by TESS principal investigator George Ricker, who is an MIT astrophysicist, in a 2015 journal article about the mission.