摘要：In this paper we investigate systems previously identified to exhibit transit timing variations in Keplerdata, with the goal of predicting the expected improvements to the mass and eccentricity constraints that will arise from combining Keplerdata with future data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)mission. We advocate for the use of the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence as a means to quantify improvements in the measured constraints. Compared to the original Keplerdata, the TESSdata will have a lower signal-to-noise ratio, rendering some of the planetary transits undetectable, and lowering the accuracy with which the transit mid-time can be estimated. Despite these difficulties, out of the 55 systems (containing 143 planets) investigated, we predict that the collection of short-cadence data by TESSwill be of significant value (i.e., it will improve the mass uncertainty such that the KL divergence is 0.1) for approximately 6–14 planets during the nominal mission, with the range primarily driven by the uncertain precision with which transit mid-times will be recovered from TESSdata. In an extended mission this would increase to a total of approximately 12–25 planets.
