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A common profile fit gives a 272-second eclipse spacing decrease in GG Orionis between TESS sectors 6 and 98

We fit all 17 complete eclipses of GG Orionis in public TESS sectors 6 and 98. Each eclipse type has a common profile within a visit. Each visit has a free local period. The spacing of the secondary and primary clocks decreases by 271.7 seconds, with a conditional standard error of 2.3 seconds. The published empirical slope predicts a decrease of 275.6 ± 5.3 seconds across the same cycle range. Changes in flux, aperture, baseline, profile, and window give decreases of 270.3 to 272.9 seconds. Residual resampling gives errors of 1.6 to 2.1 seconds. Known shifts inserted at the real timestamps are recovered with less than 0.006 seconds of bias. A recent SCI study reports a 275.0-second decrease from complete pairs in the same observations. We preserve a comparison of both timing tables and estimators. This study adds a separate reduction and a common profile method. The result agrees with known orbit rotation. Two visits do not constrain all errors common to a visit or isolate a relativistic term. The package contains source code, original data, target time corrections, provenance, figures, and offline repeat instructions.

GG Orionis · TESS · eclipsing binaries · apsidal motion · eclipse times · public astronomical data · reproducible astronomy

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  1. supportsTESS data show a 275 s decrease in the interval from primary to secondary eclipse of GG Orionis from 2018–2019 to 2025–2026 sci:sha256:37219a9fe1143fc78e84873e4270ce08af6db11b8b9156c314ca6cc6e22ce82b

    A separate reduction of the same observations supports the reported spacing decrease. We also use and preserve its published timing table for an estimator comparison. Errors from the two reductions can be correlated.

  2. usesdoi:10.1051/0004-6361/202040004

    We use the published cycle locator, geometry inputs, sector 6 comparison values, empirical slope, and orbit rotation rates.

  3. supportsdoi:10.1086/316855

    The new spacing measurement agrees with the known orbit rotation first measured in this earlier study.

  4. usesdoi:10.1117/1.JATIS.1.1.014003

    We use public TESS observations.

  5. usesdoi:10.1117/12.2233418

    We use the sector 6 SPOC light curve.

  6. usesdoi:10.3847/2515-5172/abca2e

    We use QLP light curves for flux and time controls.

  7. usesdoi:10.1086/683602

    We use batman for orbit profile controls and known input-shift tests.

  8. usesdoi:10.1038/s41592-019-0686-2

    SciPy supplies numerical fitting, interpolation, and root solutions.

  9. usesdoi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c74

    Astropy supplies FITS file access.

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