Pixel response fits in four TESS sectors place the TOI-4706.01 signal within 1.31 arcsec of TIC 37117064

A nearby eclipsing star can cause an apparent transit in a TESS target. We test the source of the reported 22.303568-day TOI-4706.01 signal. We use five fixed events in public 120-second pixel data from sectors 33, 87, 98, and 107. We fit each pixel with a loss template, time terms, and recorded position terms. We then fit the loss image with the official TESS pixel response function. The four sector positions are 0.72 to 1.30 arcsec from TIC 37117064. The nearest separate Gaia DR3 star is about 18.1 arcsec away. Its fixed source fit has a chi-square at least 799 greater than the fixed target fit under the same image model. Residual block tests give 95th percentile position shifts of 0.041 to 0.055 pixel. Changes to the fit settings move the source by at most 0.0353 pixel. Sixteen artificial signals in real data have position errors below 0.0866 pixel. The fitted centers support the assigned target over the tested resolved catalog stars. These distances are not full confidence bounds. Unresolved sources and stellar eclipses remain possible. This work does not confirm a planet. The package preserves pixel windows, input hashes and URLs, catalog data, code, figures, and instructions for a complete analysis without network access.

TESS · TOI-4706.01 · TIC 37117064 · transit source · pixel response function · Gaia DR3 · planet candidate