Surveying the Trans-Neptunian DPS 52nd Meeting 10/26/20-10/30/20 Solar System with TESS

Malena Rice NSF Graduate Research Fellow Yale University Astronomy Department Rice & Laughlin 2020, in press, PSJ www.astro.yale.edu/malenarice

30 au Adapted from Batygin & Brown 2016

Planet Nine

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Batygin, Adams, Brown, & Becker 2019 Planet Nine

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400-800 au semimajor axis

Batygin, Adams, Brown, & Becker 2019 Planet Nine

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5-10 Earth masses

400-800 au semimajor axis

Batygin, Adams, Brown, & Becker 2019 Planet Nine

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5-10 Earth masses

400-800 au semimajor axis 15-25° inclination

Batygin, Adams, Brown, & Becker 2019 0.2-0.5 eccentricity Planet Nine

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5-10 Earth masses

400-800 au semimajor axis 15-25° inclination

Batygin, Adams, Brown, & Becker 2019 Video: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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How do we recover signals over 300x dimmer than Pluto?

Sedna’s sky motion How do we recover signals over 300x dimmer than Pluto?

tinyurl.com/sednarecovery

• Automated local maximum finder • Automated local maximum finder • Injection recovery tests • Automated local maximum finder • Injection recovery tests • False positive vetting with two independent baseline subtraction methods Paper I Focus: Ongoing Work and The Galactic Plane Future Directions

• Motivation: Point sources can • Incorporate neural “hide” in the galactic plane networks for automated candidate vetting in a • Applied the algorithm to larger-scale, all-sky survey search TESS sectors 18 and 19 for candidate outer solar • Extend to additional system objects science cases by • Developed and applied the considering a different framework for a TESS shift- range of orbital paths stacking pipeline Image from TESS/MIT

Video by Tony Dunn Thank you!

Rice & Laughlin 2020, in press, PSJ (on arxiv tonight)

DPS talk: 304.03 [email protected] Web summary: astro.yale.edu/malenarice/#researchhighlight4 @malena_rice