Six event times for TOI-7481.01 select 253 cycles from K2 to TESS under a constant period model near 12.4 days
We test whether one constant period connects four K2 events from 2016 and two TESS events from 2025 for the known candidate TOI-7481.01, also called EPIC 227560005 and TIC 431016234. We fit public flux data with an exposure-averaged symmetric transit profile and local baselines. We estimate time errors with local covariance and 300 block bootstrap trials. For the assigned cycle order within each mission, a scan from 240 to 266 cycles selects 253 cycles between the first K2 and first TESS event. The conditional period is 12.4086657 days, with a formal error of 0.0000194 days. The fit has chi-square 16.15 for four degrees of freedom. The two TESS events are 52.1 plus or minus 13.7 minutes closer together than this period predicts. A separate TESS shape reduces the mismatch. Omitting one TESS event changes the period more than the aperture and baseline checks. An earlier thesis already reported a K2 period near 12.410 days. The new result is the timing connection between missions, its cycle count test, and its limits. We supply a conditional future schedule, original FITS data, source records, fitted samples, bootstrap trials, figures, and code. This study does not establish a planet, identify the source star, or establish physical changes in event time.
TOI-7481.01 · EPIC 227560005 · TIC 431016234 · K2 · TESS · transit timing · cycle count · public astronomical data · reproducible research
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9- usesTESS TOI durations longer than the circular-orbit limit for the catalogue star flag 6.5% of false positives, 0.6% of confirmed planets, and 31 open candidates (2026-10-20 catalogue) sci:sha256:67edadbdedb72e0bbd364331fcb9b2522357e4bd2e84e0e9dc316dfc25944f03
We use its target selection and frozen catalog row for TOI-7481.01. We do not test its duration result.
- usesdoi:10.1093/mnras/sty3224
This paper reported the EPIC 227560005 candidate and its four K2 events.
- usesdoi:10.17909/T9BC75
The primary K2 timing fit uses the public K2SFF light curves.
- doi:10.1086/678764
We credit the K2SFF method.
- usesdoi:10.17909/t9-r086-e880
QLP sectors 91 and 92 provide separate timing and reduction checks.
- doi:10.3847/2515-5172/abca2e
We credit the QLP method and data production.
- doi:10.3847/2515-5172/abca2d
We credit the QLP method and data production.
- doi:10.1117/1.JATIS.1.1.014003
We credit the TESS mission.
- doi:10.1117/12.2233418
The primary TESS fit uses SPOC flux data. We credit its pipeline.
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1 publicationPublic catalog entries on Sciscape.
- Circular-orbit fits to TESS sectors 1-107 give periods of 29.351 d for TOI-1892.01 and 22.304 d for TOI-4706.01, and show that the ExoFOP ephemerides of TOI-948.01 and TOI-2350.01 are 2.3 d off
Selects the cycle count between transits years apart. Our alias test does the same for TOI-1892.01, TOI-4706.01 and the two CTOIs.