[
  {
    "id": "handbook",
    "title": "TESS Instrument Handbook, v0.1",
    "authors": "Vanderspek et al.",
    "year": "2018",
    "url": "https://tasoc.dk/docs/TESS_Instrument_Handbook_v0.1.pdf",
    "kind": "Mission documentation",
    "note": "Read §§8.2 and 9.2.1 for attitude-control history and jitter coupling to onboard rejection. Historical hardware description; consult release notes for later operations.",
    "review_depth": "Full PDF; relevant sections read",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "nguyen",
    "title": "Fine-pointing system development and photometric precision assessment for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite",
    "authors": "Tam Nguyen Thuc Nguyen",
    "year": "2018",
    "url": "https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119268",
    "kind": "Engineering thesis",
    "note": "Prelaunch control-system and photometric simulations. Useful physical foundation; not a measurement of present-day on-orbit residuals.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "hr858",
    "title": "TESS Spots a Compact System of Super-Earths around the Naked-eye Star HR 858",
    "authors": "Vanderburg et al.",
    "year": "2019",
    "url": "https://oro.open.ac.uk/66383/1/66383.pdf",
    "kind": "Direct TESS jitter evidence",
    "note": "Essential reading: §2.1 and Fig. 2. Within-exposure quaternion scatter and image widths trace flux systematics; correction differs between sectors.",
    "review_depth": "Full text; §2.1 read",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "fast",
    "title": "Detection of a peculiar noise type in the TESS “fast” light curves",
    "authors": "Kálmán, Csizmadia, Pál & Szabó",
    "year": "2025",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10326",
    "kind": "Direct TESS jitter evidence",
    "note": "Fast-cadence high-frequency excess and changing flux–centroid relationships. Jitter attribution is plausible, not a uniquely demonstrated detector mechanism.",
    "review_depth": "Full text read",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.10326"
  },
  {
    "id": "eleanor",
    "title": "eleanor: An open-source tool for extracting light curves from the TESS Full-Frame Images",
    "authors": "Feinstein et al.",
    "year": "2019",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09152",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "Pointing model, extraction, background treatment and systematics correction; practical centroid-regression baseline.",
    "review_depth": "Full text and author documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.09152"
  },
  {
    "id": "fausnaugh",
    "title": "Early Time Light Curves of Type Ia Supernovae Observed with TESS",
    "authors": "Fausnaugh et al.",
    "year": "2019 preprint / 2021 journal",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02171",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "Image subtraction for transients; uses exposure-binned guiding offsets and within-bin scatter to reject poor pointing. Read reduction section and Appendix A.",
    "review_depth": "Full text; reduction section read",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.02171"
  },
  {
    "id": "reduce",
    "title": "TESSreduce: transient focused TESS data reduction pipeline",
    "authors": "Ridden-Harper et al.",
    "year": "2021",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15006",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "Alignment, structured-background removal and calibration. Appendix A compares shifting with a discrete-kernel fit on a small cutout.",
    "review_depth": "Full text; alignment and Appendix A read",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.15006"
  },
  {
    "id": "dia",
    "title": "Precision Light Curves from TESS Full-Frame Images: A Difference Imaging Approach",
    "authors": "Oelkers & Stassun",
    "year": "2018",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.02316",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "Discrete-kernel subtraction and signal recovery on official prelaunch simulated FFIs. Do not mistake its noise-floor demonstration for an all-sector flight result.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.02316"
  },
  {
    "id": "cdips",
    "title": "Cluster Difference Imaging Photometric Survey. I. Light Curves of Stars in Open Clusters from TESS Sectors 6 & 7",
    "authors": "Bouma et al.",
    "year": "2019",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01133",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "On-orbit image subtraction and time-series processing in cluster fields; complementary to the earlier simulated DIA demonstration.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.01133"
  },
  {
    "id": "pathos",
    "title": "PATHOS I: Search for exoplanets and variable stars in the field of 47 Tuc",
    "authors": "Nardiello et al.",
    "year": "2019",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03592",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "Empirical PSFs, catalogue priors and neighbour subtraction for crowded-field light curves. Addresses dilution and extraction as well as systematics.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.03592"
  },
  {
    "id": "tglc",
    "title": "TESS-Gaia Light Curve: a PSF-based TESS FFI light curve product",
    "authors": "Han & Brandt",
    "year": "2023",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03704",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "Local ePSFs fit independently by frame with Gaia priors and background modeling; directly relevant to temporal scene modeling.",
    "review_depth": "Full text; §III read",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.03704"
  },
  {
    "id": "qlp2026",
    "title": "QLP Data Release Notes 004: TESS-Gaia Light Curve Photometry Implementation",
    "authors": "Petitpas et al.",
    "year": "2026",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22236",
    "kind": "Current pipeline update",
    "note": "Reports adoption of TGLC photometry methods from Sector 94. This is a pipeline-performance update, not an isolation of the jitter contribution.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.22236"
  },
  {
    "id": "unpopular",
    "title": "The unpopular Package: A Data-driven Approach to De-trend TESS Full Frame Image Light Curves",
    "authors": "Hattori et al.",
    "year": "2021",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15063",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "Distant-pixel predictors, ridge regularization and train/test separation; designed to preserve long astrophysical signals.",
    "review_depth": "Full text and abstract inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.15063"
  },
  {
    "id": "tda_phot",
    "title": "TESS Data for Asteroseismology: Photometry",
    "authors": "Handberg et al.",
    "year": "2021",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08341",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "Extraction, background, timing and bright-star halo photometry. Companion to the systematics-correction paper.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.08341"
  },
  {
    "id": "tda_corr",
    "title": "TESS Data for Asteroseismology: Light Curve Systematics Correction",
    "authors": "Lund et al.",
    "year": "2021",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11780",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "CBV and ensemble approaches for differing variability regimes; §4.5 gives use-case guidance.",
    "review_depth": "Full text and MAST product documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.11780"
  },
  {
    "id": "spoc",
    "title": "The TESS Science Processing Operations Center",
    "authors": "Jenkins et al.",
    "year": "2016",
    "url": "https://tessgi.github.io/TessGiWebsite/docs/jenkinsSPIE2016-copyright.pdf",
    "kind": "TESS pipeline",
    "note": "SPOC architecture and PDC context. Historical design paper; pair with current data-product documentation.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "wasp76",
    "title": "Asymmetry in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b",
    "authors": "Demangeon et al.",
    "year": "2024",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202348270",
    "kind": "TESS application",
    "note": "TESS extraction combines background PCA, quaternions/CBVs and PSF-autocorrelation components with an astrophysical fit. Shape diagnostics offer information beyond centroids.",
    "review_depth": "Publisher reduction-section excerpt inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "hd15906",
    "title": "TESS and CHEOPS discover two warm sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf HD 15906",
    "authors": "Tuson et al.",
    "year": "2023",
    "url": "https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/523/2/3090/7191658",
    "kind": "TESS application",
    "note": "Independent TESS extraction with background PCA and engineering/CBV detrending; an application example rather than a global benchmark.",
    "review_depth": "Publisher reduction-section excerpt inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "sff",
    "title": "A Technique for Extracting Highly Precise Photometry for the Two-Wheeled Kepler Mission",
    "authors": "Vanderburg & Johnson",
    "year": "2014",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3853",
    "kind": "Method heritage: K2",
    "note": "Flux-position decorrelation foundation. K2’s motion pattern differs from TESS, so its one-dimensional motion model and performance do not transfer automatically.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3853"
  },
  {
    "id": "k2sc",
    "title": "K2SC: Flexible systematics correction and detrending of K2 light curves using Gaussian Process regression",
    "authors": "Aigrain, Parviainen & Pope",
    "year": "2016",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09167",
    "kind": "Method heritage: K2",
    "note": "Simultaneous position-dependent systematics and time-dependent stellar variability, with injection tests. Transferable method, not a TESS validation.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.09167"
  },
  {
    "id": "everest",
    "title": "An update to the EVEREST K2 pipeline: Short cadence, saturated stars, and Kepler-like photometry down to Kp = 15",
    "authors": "Luger et al.",
    "year": "2017 preprint / 2018 journal",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05488",
    "kind": "Method heritage: K2",
    "note": "Regularized higher-order pixel-level decorrelation and neighbouring-star predictors. Useful for overfitting control; published performance is for K2.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.05488"
  },
  {
    "id": "drn",
    "title": "TESS Data Release Notes archive",
    "authors": "TESS / MAST",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://archive.stsci.edu/tess/tess_drn.html",
    "kind": "Mission documentation",
    "note": "Use the release applicable to the exact sector and reprocessing version, especially pointing, guiding, thermal events and excluded intervals.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "condensed",
    "title": "Condensed TESS Data Release Notes",
    "authors": "NASA TESS Science Support Center",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/data_release_notes.html",
    "kind": "Mission documentation",
    "note": "Sector-by-sector operational context. Includes aperture revisions addressing jitter losses in saturated stars and historical anomalies.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "ops",
    "title": "TESS Observations and momentum-dump table",
    "authors": "MIT TESS",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://tess.mit.edu/observations/",
    "kind": "Mission documentation",
    "note": "Current mission planning and observation intervals; extended-mission operations differ from the early dump schedule.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "products",
    "title": "TESS Data Products",
    "authors": "MAST",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://archive.stsci.edu/missions-and-data/tess/data-products",
    "kind": "Mission documentation",
    "note": "Authoritative paths and filename patterns for quaternions, engineering data and other products.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "vectors",
    "title": "tessvectors: exposure-binned engineering products",
    "authors": "Pritchard, Hedges, TSSC & MIT team",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://github.com/tessgi/tessvectors",
    "kind": "Software / operational guidance",
    "note": "Convenient camera/sector/cadence summaries, quaternion dispersion and quality. Read time-system, staggered-CCD and missing-camera caveats.",
    "review_depth": "Repository README read",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "lk",
    "title": "Correcting systematics",
    "authors": "Lightkurve team",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://lightkurve.github.io/lightkurve/reference/correctors.html",
    "kind": "Software / operational guidance",
    "note": "Regression, CBV and PLD interfaces; CBV regularization balances residual correlations against introduced noise.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "pld",
    "title": "PLDCorrector.correct API",
    "authors": "Lightkurve team",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://lightkurve.github.io/lightkurve/reference/api/lightkurve.correctors.PLDCorrector.correct.html",
    "kind": "Software / operational guidance",
    "note": "TESS and K2 have different defaults. Check installed-version behavior and masks; an API called PLD is not automatically a dedicated TESS jitter model.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "pldtut",
    "title": "Removing noise from K2 and TESS light curves using Pixel Level Decorrelation",
    "authors": "Lightkurve team",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://lightkurve.github.io/lightkurve/tutorials/2-creating-light-curves/2-3-k2-pldcorrector.html",
    "kind": "Software / operational guidance",
    "note": "Examples and diagnosis; the TESS tutorial emphasizes background removal, while the K2 example addresses motion.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "instrument",
    "title": "TESS Telescope Information",
    "authors": "NASA TESS Science Support Center",
    "year": "Living resource",
    "url": "https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/tess/telescope_information.html",
    "kind": "Mission documentation",
    "note": "Instrument performance and cosmic-ray processing; fast-cadence products do not share the onboard rejection used for longer integrations.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  },
  {
    "id": "comet2026",
    "title": "TSSC comet-centered data products from TESS 3I/ATLAS observations",
    "authors": "TESS Science Support Center",
    "year": "2026",
    "url": "https://github.com/tessgi/tess-3i",
    "kind": "Software / operational guidance",
    "note": "Recent moving-target example using jitter regression. Specialized reduction; not evidence that a stationary-star recipe transfers unchanged.",
    "review_depth": "Primary abstract / documentation inspected",
    "pdf": ""
  }
]