The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is a Canadian-led 15
cm Earth-orbiting telescope originally designed to detect asteroids near the
Sun. Its design is however also suitable for the observation of exoplanetary
transits of bright stars. We used the NEOSSat platform to perform followup
observations of several Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) targets,
both as a demonstration of NEOSSat capabilities for exoplanetary science and
improve the orbital ephemerides and properties of these exoplanet systems. We
are able to recover / confirm the orbital properties of such targets to within
mutual error bars, demonstrating NEOSSat as a useful future contributor to
exoplanetary science.
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Subjects: Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics