TESS Ten Thousand Catalog: Eclipsing Binaries

In addition to the primary goal of discovering new exoplanets, TESS is exceptionally capable at detecting variable stars, and in particular short-period eclipsing binaries, which are relatively common, making up a few percent of all stars, and represent powerful astrophysical laboratories for deep investigations of stellar formation and evolution.

We combed Sectors 1-82 of the TESS full-frame image data searching for eclipsing binary stars using a neural network that identified ~1.2 million stars with eclipse-like features. Of these, we have performed an in-depth analysis on ~60,000 targets using automated methods and manual inspection by citizen scientists. Here we present a catalog of 10,001 uniformly vetted and validated eclipsing binary stars that passed all our ephemeris and photocenter tests, as well as complementary visual inspection.