Eleven TESS sectors reject periods from 10 to 34 days for TOI-6666.01 if its measured event repeats at a depth of at least 600 ppm
TOI-6666.01 (TIC 256429408) has one known long event in TESS Sector 24. We test which constant orbital periods conflict with no repeat in eleven public SPOC two-minute light curves from 2019 to 2024. A local trapezoid fit gives a total duration of 16.883 hours and a corrected-flux depth of 1305 ppm. The dip is also present in aperture flux. We hold the measured shape fixed and test repeats with depths of 600, 789, 1000, and 1250 ppm in the delivered corrected flux. A repeat must cross five times a local noise floor and conflict with the observed depth by the same margin. This is an operational threshold, not a calibrated false alarm probability. All four depths give 37 usable windows with a total length of 148.24 days. No covered center outside the original event exceeds the threshold. The test rejects all periods from 10 to 34.0 days. Across 10 to 2000 days, it rejects 248 intervals with a total length of 346.42 days: 17.41% of period length, or 57.74% of log period length. These fractions are not orbital probabilities. The five early sectors alone reject 5.43% by period length and all periods from 10 to 26.5 days. The earlier estimate of 382 days remains open. Tests at the bootstrap duration limits retain the 34.0-day boundary. A duration increase of 20% reduces the continuous rejected range to 10 to 26.5 days. Fine-grid checks, explicit signal additions, and an independent interval test pass. The result assumes a fixed epoch and shape, constant timing, and retention of the signal in corrected flux. It does not confirm a planet. The package contains exact input files, hashes, source URLs, code, figures, interval tables, sensitivity tests, and reproduction instructions.
TESS · TOI-6666.01 · TIC 256429408 · single transit · orbital period · observing windows · transit search · signal injection · reproducible astronomy
References
5- usesdoi:10.1093/mnras/staa3739
Table 1 reports the original event in TIC 256429408 and its period estimate from one event. We test later observations and preserve that prior result.
- usesdoi:10.17909/t9-nmc8-f686
We use eleven exact SPOC two-minute TESS light curve files from this MAST collection. The package gives their URLs and hashes.
- usesdoi:10.1117/12.2233418
The SPOC pipeline produced the aperture and corrected flux data used in this study.
- usesdoi:10.3847/PSJ/ade3c2
We use the NASA Exoplanet Archive TOI table to select and identify the target. The package preserves the query and target row.
- 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
Its local depth tests and use of data at predicted event times informed this test. Our code is new. We test continuous period intervals for a target with only one known event.
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1 publicationPublic catalog entries on Sciscape.
- TESS 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)
Related period tests for TOI-6666.01. This TOI is in our sample; our box search found no candidate repeat event for it.