Documentation for data resulting from McNeill et al. (2023) - An Untargeted Survey of the Rotational Properties of Main Belt Asteroids using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

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3sig_Cycle1.txt - Contains the extracted photometric data for all objects found in Cycle 1 with a single round of sigma-clipping carried out at the 3-sigma level for each individual object. Note that this is only minimally effective for objects with few data points.

desig - Minor Planet Designation of the object
mjd - The Modified Julian Date of the observation
relative_hours - The time of the observation expressed in hours where the zero point is defined by the first observation.
mag - The instrumental magnitude of the object at this time-stamp. These values have not been calibrated to a true magnitude but have been corrected for both distance and phase-angle effects.
magerr - The photometric uncertainty on each brightness measurement

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finaltable_LCDBQualityFlag_True.txt - Contains the overall derived results obtained for each object in Cycle 1 for which there were more than 50 total individual detections (prior to outlier removal).

Object Id - Minor Planet Designation of the object
Amplitude - Peak-to-trough amplitude (in magnitudes) of the Fourier fit to the folded lightcurve
Num. Obs. - Total number of observations in Cycle 1
LS Norm. Power - The normalised Lomb Scargle power of the peak signal in the periodogram for this object.
Rot. Period (h) - The best-fit rotation period in hours
Prob.(Exact) - The confidence value that this rotation period is correct to within 3%
Prob.(Aliased) - The confidence value that this rotation period is correct or is a factor of 2 from the correct period.

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TESS_Results_gt200pts.txt -  A summary table for the derived results also including a comparison with results obtained by Pal et al. (2020)

obj - Minor Planet Designation of the object
P - The best-fit rotation period in hours
P_err - The uncertainty on the rotation period
A - Peak-to-trough amplitude (in magnitudes) of the Fourier fit to the folded lightcurve
CV_exact - The confidence value that this rotation period is correct to within 3%
CV_alias - The confidence value that this rotation period is correct to within 3% or is a factor of 2 from the correct period.
Match? - Does the rotation period derived in this work match the result of Pal et al. (2020). Y/N/- denoting yes, no and no result from Pal.

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