12:30–1:00 pm ERC 401
Searching for Young Exoplanets in TESS Data
Advisors: Jacob Bean and Adina Feinstein
Exoplanets orbiting young stars are notoriously difficult to find, due to the increased activity and rotation rate of their hosts. In order to do so, it is necessary to remove contaminants such as flares and rotation signatures from the light curves before attempting to detect exoplanet transits. In this work we describe a pipeline for the flare removal, de-trending, and detection of exoplanets in TESS 2-minute cadence observations. We perform injection recovery on a sample of 283 M-dwarf light curves and we find that the pipeline is up to 33% effective for injected planets in its current state. We attempt to recover the primary planet of a young star V1298 Tau and discuss our results. We present improvements for the pipeline and steps for further research.