Ground-based Light Curve Follow-up Validation Observations of TESS Object of Interest TOI 3798.01

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), surveys the surrounding space for changes in brightness of stars to detect transiting exoplanets. These Exoplanets are planets discovered outside the defined solar system, and their existence has been confirmed by a telescope observation. The goal of this paper is to perform a follow-up validation of Tess Object of Interest TOI-3798.01 as a transiting exoplanet. This will be done through the transit method, which measures the brightness of a star with software such as AstroImageJ. We utilized the data from George Mason University’s 0.8m telescope and reduced the data from the exposures that were gathered on observation night. We tried to use AstroImageJ to help analyze our data by reducing our datasets, but were unsuccessful due to the software crashing during every attempt, despite changing software and desktop settings. However, we were able to see through raw exposure frames a very slight decrease in image quality.