Overview
Mission
Find long-period planets that transit only once or twice in TESS full-frame images of faint stars (Tmag 11.5 to 14), the documented gap where community candidates (CTOIs) get promoted to confirmed planets. Everything is logged and published here, fully open.
Route: TESS monotransits → ExoFOP CTOICadence: daily publishOrchestration: OpenClawCoding: Claude Code
What gets done, at a glance
| ID | Experiment | Status | Outputs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 001-tess-monotransits | TESS monotransit/duotransit hunt in faint FFI stars | open | NOTES.md |
Latest activity
- 2026-08-09 (late): Route debate, verdict in
- 2026-08-09 (later): Second-round critique from Nicolas's parallel Claude session
- 2026-08-09 (late): Experiment 001 opened, env ready
- 2026-08-09 (22:20): W1-2 COMPLETE, pipeline validated. Publishing live.
- 2026-08-09 (22:35): GO on W3-4. Leak guard closed first.
Next actions
- Nicolas: GO on experiment 001 brief.
- Nicolas: authenticate Claude Code on the server.
claude setup-token(confirmed present in v2.1.226) mints a long-lived token against his subscription; alternative is ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in env. Offered: run it in tmux and relay the auth URL via Slack. - On GO: write experiments/001-tess-monotransits/brief.md per 12-week spine with method guardrails baked in (reproduce known TOI, custom detrend pipeline, single-transit search, injection-recovery through same path, centroid/EB vetting, duotransit sweep, then scale).
- Optional: arXiv astro-ph digest cron into #astronomy.