A stable eight hour event model retains 12 period ranges for TOI-3500.02 in four TESS visits at periods of at least one day
We test the period of the known candidate TOI-3500.02 with four public TESS visits. An earlier ExoFOP note reports events in sectors 64, 90, and 101 and a maximum period of 350.3 days. We reproduce the three events and add explicit period exclusions. The events last 7.87 to 8.10 hours and have corrected depths of 7919 to 8204 ppm. For one stable event type with a constant period of at least one day, timing intervals of plus or minus 0.03 days give 350 integer choices. A missing-event test excludes 338 choices and retains 12 timing intervals with central periods from 17.515748 to 350.314957 days. The test requires an eight-hour repeat with at least half the measured depth. It checks data gaps and 41 center shifts from minus 0.10 to plus 0.10 days. All 338 exclusions also pass with original aperture flux. All 300 synthetic events added to published corrected flux pass the recovery threshold. The final QLP target flux retains only 19.3% to 24.7% of the measured aperture-flux depth in these three events. The timing test uses a finite grid and a declared noise allowance. It gives no calibrated planet probability. A known companion at 3.74 arcseconds remains unresolved. These data select neither a unique period nor the host star, and they do not confirm a planet. The package contains source measurements, exact pixel extracts, code, exclusion records, figures, and reproduction instructions.
TOI-3500.02 · TIC 443666343 · TESS · period ambiguity · missing events · light curves · QLP · public data
References
8- usesdoi:10.26134/ExoFOP5
We use public target records. We credit the prior note by user slee, dated 2026-06-03, tag 454075, for both later events and the maximum period.
- usesdoi:10.1117/12.2233418
We use four public TESS SPOC light curves and exact rows from three target pixel files.
- usesdoi:10.17909/t9-r086-e880
We use eight public QLP light curves for the target and its known close companion.
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- doi:10.1093/mnras/stad3783
- doi:10.1093/mnras/stae210
- usesdoi:10.1002/asna.20230055
The known stellar companion limits what these TESS images can establish about the event host.
- usesTESS Sector 96 shows a second transit of TOI-790.03, 726.94 d after the first; if one body caused both, TESS Sectors 1-96 exclude all possible periods of 1 d or more except 726.94 d and 363.47 d sci:sha256:a5131355b9615ad61701e5d9153c945a9c7131afa9f7fc74727e0c5924dba0c6
The conservative missing-event test informed our half-depth and noise rules. We wrote new code for this target.
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1 publicationPublic catalog entries on Sciscape.
- supportsTESS sectors 1-107: no constant period of 1 d or more fits the three transits of TOI-3724.01, and its Sector 19 transit (5.6 h) is longer than its Sector 59 and 73 transits (4.5-4.8 h)
Gives 12 TOI-3500.02 period ranges. Our nine periods are in this set; the S101 event removes the others.