Eighteen TESS transits extend the TOI-2202 b timing record to September 2025
We measure 30 transit times of TOI-2202 b in public two-minute TESS data. The data include 18 transits from 6 June 2023 to 5 September 2025. These transits follow the last time in the 2023 study. The median timing error is 1.32 minutes from local flux fits and a block bootstrap. The root mean square (RMS) difference from 12 published times is 1.75 minutes. We combine the measurements with published times to form a record of 49 distinct transits from 2018 to 2025. A linear clock plus one fixed sinusoidal wave, with a tested wave period of 250 to 500 days, leaves a residual RMS of 14.6 minutes. A fit through April 2023 leaves a residual RMS of 40.5 minutes on the 18 later times. The discovery study already reported departures from a simple wave. Our result extends the measured record and tests a simple timing forecast. It does not identify another planet or test the full published gravitational model. The package contains the light-curve columns, source hashes, timing tables, fit code, figures, and reproduction instructions.
TOI-2202 · TIC 358107516 · TESS · transit times · transit timing variations · public data · reproducible astronomy
References
5- usesdoi:10.17909/t9-nmc8-f686
Public two-minute TESS light curves from MAST. The package gives the exact 18 product names, source URLs, and SHA-256 hashes.
- usesdoi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac1bbe
We use the 13 published transit times. This study discovered the known two-planet system and described departures from a sinusoidal timing wave.
- usesdoi:10.3847/1538-3881/ad09de
We use the 18 published transit times, the reference clock, and the transit shape. Twelve new fits of shared TESS events check our method.
- usesdoi:10.1117/12.2233418
The TESS Science Processing Operations Center produced the light curves used here.
- usesdoi:10.1086/683602
The batman program supplies the symmetric transit template used to measure each transit center.
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3 publicationsPublic catalog entries on Sciscape.
- usesA fit with two harmonics to 31 early TOI-2202 b times has a 42-minute RMS error on 18 later transits
We reuse its verified 49-time compilation, original early times, and provenance. Its one-harmonic forecast is the comparison.
- usesA coplanar two-planet fit to 35 early TOI-2202 b times has a 37-minute RMS error on 15 later times
We use its accepted timing table to check measurements from the same TESS photons. We do not count this reduction as independent astronomical evidence.
- usesA quadratic phase fit to 35 early TOI-2202 b times has a 14-minute RMS error on 15 later times in a retrospective test
We test its separate reduction of shared TESS transits. These times use the same photons.