Materials

Sample

TESS 2-minute SPOC light curves (PDCSAP and SAP flux), sectors 1-107

Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST), public AWS bucket stpubdata

The 128,042 files data/sample_lcs.csv lists; the SHA-256 of each searched file is in data/run/lcs.csv.gz. Those the audit searches again are pinned in data/external.json.

Sample

TESS 2-minute target pixel files of the light curves with counted flares

MAST

The cadences around each counted flare, cut by code/make_cutouts.py, are in data/tpf/; data/tpf/sources.csv gives each source file's SHA-256.

Sample

TESS 2-minute target lists, sectors 1-107

TESS Science Office, MIT (tess.mit.edu) · Cat. no. all_targets_S001_v1.csv to all_targets_S107_v1.csv

Their TESS magnitudes per target and sector are in data/meta/lc_files_meta.csv.gz.

Sample

TESS Input Catalog 8.2

CDS VizieR IV/39/tic82, queried by the CDS cross-match service on 2026-10-24

Rows of the candidate stars in data/meta/parent_bright.csv.gz.

Sample

Gaia DR3 gaia_source, astrophysical_parameters, vari_classifier_result, vari_rotation_modulation, dr2_neighbourhood

ESA Gaia Archive TAP service, queried on 2026-10-24

Rows of the candidate stars in data/meta/parent_bright.csv.gz and data/meta/gaia_rotmod.csv.

Sample

Gaia DR3 sources near the stars with counted flares and a control sample

CDS cross-match service, VizieR I/355/gaiadr3, queried on 2026-10-24

data/meta/gaia_neighbors.csv.gz and data/meta/neighbor_controls.csv (exploratory).

Sample

TESS eclipsing binaries of Prsa et al. (2022)

CDS VizieR J/ApJS/258/16

data/meta/prsa2022_tessebs.tsv

Sample

TESS spectral response function

AltaiPony repository, commit 7acd5af1210425cb935b359873f29d9303f65e4f (MIT licence) · Cat. no. altaipony/static/tess-response-function.csv

Pinned by SHA-256 in data/external.json.

Software

Python

python.org, Docker image python:3.13-slim

3.13, image pinned by digest in env/Dockerfile

Software

NumPy

PyPI

2.5.4

Software

SciPy

PyPI

1.18.1 (least-squares template fits, Poisson intervals)

Software

Astropy

PyPI

8.0.2 (FITS reading, Lomb-Scargle periodograms)

Software

pandas

PyPI

3.1.0

Other

Detected fractions of injected flares, the injected profile, and the full sample's flare frequency before and after correction, from three figures of Vasilyev et al. (2024)

Their arXiv source, https://arxiv.org/e-print/2412.12265v1 (sha256:692d23613d85c2ad61d7e5ea39d9df18123e13c99cc6aa379ebe842ee0b09210)

code/read_figures.py, run once with pypdf 5.1.0, reads detectability_of_flares.pdf, mean_flare_profile.pdf, and pdf_flares_for_paper.pdf from the source into data/meta/vasilyev_detectability.csv, vasilyev_profile.csv, and vasilyev_frequency.csv.

Software

pypdf 5.1.0

Python Package Index

Reads the figures for code/read_figures.py, outside the analysis's container.