The 22 October 2026 NASA composite table stores the linear luminosity of TOI-5542 in a logarithmic field

We tested incident flux against stellar luminosity and semimajor axis in a frozen NASA Exoplanet Archive composite table from 22 October 2026 UTC. Of 4,373 accepted transiting entries, 217 central flux values differ by more than a factor of two from S_a = 10^l/a^2. Here l is logarithmic solar luminosity and a is in au. Of these flags, 210 use different source references and seven use one shared reference. Source review verifies a unit error for TOI-5542. The source gives linear luminosity 1.057 solar units, but the archive stores 1.057 in its logarithmic field. The source luminosity gives flux 9.5896 Earth units, close to the listed 9.6. The stored logarithm gives 103.4484. TOI-2285 instead combines a revised period and flux with an older axis. Kepler-1704 illustrates a different flux definition. Thus the flags are not all errors. Most flags lack complete errors, and only ten of 1,223 queried solution rows have a complete usable triplet. An example flux interval changes membership for 25 entries. A separate calculation with 60 decimal digits verifies the audit. The package preserves frozen data, source evidence, code, figures, provenance, and offline reproduction instructions. The results concern catalog consistency and do not give new physical planet measurements.

NASA Exoplanet Archive · incident flux · stellar luminosity · catalog consistency · TOI-5542 · TOI-2285 · data provenance · reproducible research