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This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 20 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.

This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from the multi-sector search of Sectors 14-19 observed with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.

This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 19 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.

This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 17 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.

TESS Data Release 23 consists of results from a transiting planet search conducted with the combined data from Sectors 14 through 16. Figure 1 shows the Right Ascension (RA) and Declination (Dec) of all two-minute targets, color-coded by the number of sectors for which each target was observed. Targets with new data in any of Sectors 14{16 that were observed in multiple sectors were subjected to a multi-sector planet search. The data are the same 2-minute cotrended light curves presented in previous single sector data releases. Table 1 provides basic information and data release numbers for the observations of each sector. The observations span an 80 day period.

These Data Release Notes provide information on the processing and export of data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This data release is a combined, multi-sector transit search only. The underlying data products from individual observing sectors have been previously released. The data products included in this data release are the Data Validation (DV) reports, time series, and associated xml les for the threshold crossing events (TCEs) found by searching a combined data set including data from multiple observing sectors. These data products were generated by the TESS Science Processing Operations Center (SPOC, Jenkins et al., 2016) at NASA Ames Research Center from data collected by the TESS instrument, which is managed by the TESS Payload Operations Center (POC) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The format and content of these data products are documented in the Science Data Products Description Document (SDPDD)1. The SPOC science algorithms are based heavily on those of the Kepler Mission science pipeline, and are described in the Kepler Data Processing Handbook (Jenkins, 2017)2. The Data Validation algorithms are documented in Twicken et al. (2018) and Li et al. (2019). The TESS Instrument Handbook (Vanderspek et al., 2018)3 contains more information about the TESS instrument design, detector layout, data properties, and mission operations. The TESS Mission is funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

This release note discusses the science data products produced by the Science Processing Operations Center at Ames Research Center from Sector 9 observations made with the TESS spacecraft and cameras as a means to document instrument performance and data characteristics.