Vetting Ambiguous Planetary Candidates (APC) in TESS Data: Insights from LATTE Package and Detection of Nine Potential Exoplanet Candidates

arXiv:2607.08132 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-07-09 · Read on arXiv

Umer Hameed Khan, Khushlim Khan, Muhammad Zeshan Ashraf, A. Salam Khumber

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-07-09

Comments: 9 pages, 9 figures

Code: https://github.com/christinahedges/contaminante

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Aperture — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — 5× in this paper
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vetting Ambiguous Planetary Candidates — 2× in this paper
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Diagnostic Tools — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mikulski Archive For Space Telescopes — 1× in this paper
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• TESS Follow-Up Observing Program — 1× in this paper

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