tokens: We are grateful to the referee, Scott Gaudi, for providing constructive criticism that has led to improvements in this paper. We thank the members of the TESS Science Team for their contributions to the mission. In particular, Jacob Bean, Tabetha Boyajian, Eric Gaidos, Daniel Huber, Geoffrey Marcy, Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, and Keivan Stassun provided helpful comments on the manuscript, and discussions with Jon Jenkins helped inform our approach to the simulations. We acknowledge Anthony Smith, Kristin Clark, and Michael Chrisp at MIT-Lincoln Laboratory for their respective roles in the project management, systems engineering, and optical design for the TESS payload. In addition, Barry Burke and Vyshnavi Suntharalingam at MIT-LL provided useful input to the PSF model. We thank Leo Girardi for adding the TESS bandpass to the TRILEGAL simulation and for providing a perl script to facilitate the queries. We also thank Gibor Basri for sharing the stellar variability data from Kepler . This publication makes use of data products from the 2MASS, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
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