No fixed period fits 14 published TOI-4504 c transit times within 48 hours
A fixed period can lose transit timing information in an interacting planet system. We find the smallest common time window for all 14 measured centers of TOI-4504 c in Table 2 of Almenara et al., arXiv 2603.05720 version 1. We retain the published cycle numbers. Exact fractions prove a minimum half-width of 48.568752 hours. Three events give the lower bound, and one fitted clock meets it for every center. The seven published d centers need a minimum half-width of 2.611029 hours. If each true time lies within three times its larger quoted error width plus printed rounding, the c lower bound remains 48.356016 hours. A separate slope-interval program checks the result. We inspect original TESS flux for the six events that set the bounds. Direct linear use of the default NASA catalog fields gives larger misses. The package contains code, original inputs, source hashes, exact certificates, figures, and offline instructions. Large timing changes in this system were known. This result tests the supplied times; it does not report a new planet or guarantee a future observing window.
TOI-4504 · transit timing variations · TESS · linear ephemeris · observation planning · exact arithmetic · uniform approximation · reproducible research
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12- usesdoi:10.48550/arXiv.2603.05720
We use Table 2 of version 1, with 14 measured c centers and seven d centers. The preserved HTML defines the tested scope.
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This is the final article for the source study. We use its arXiv version 1 table and do not claim to have checked the final timing table.
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The discovery study already reported large timing changes in this system.
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We use its exact pairwise slope-interval method for a separate check. Our code is written independently.
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We use the original QLP sector 12 light curve of TIC 349972412.
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We use a mission light curve from TESS sector 31.
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We use a mission light curve from TESS sector 88.
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We use a mission light curve from TESS sector 89.
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We use a mission light curve from TESS sector 97.
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We preserve and test TOI-4504 fields from the Planetary Systems table on 23 October 2026.
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- usesThe best periodic box retains 29.3% of ideal signal-to-noise for 14 TOI-4504 c times with fixed cycles, equal eight-hour transits, and white noise
We use its preserved timing table, article HTML, and MIT source table checker. We answer a different question: the maximum normalized expected signal-to-noise of a periodic box with free width.