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What this project is really about (and what it is not)
We watch the light of a great many stars. When a planet passes in front of its star, the star dims by a tiny amount -- like a fly crossing a streetlamp, the light dips just a little. A careful computer program reads those brightness curves and marks the small dips.
Here is the part people often get wrong: the goal is NOT to announce a brand-new planet. Our program does not claim that. When it sees a dip, all it says is "something is dimming this star -- a human should take a look." Turning that into a real planet needs telescopes, time, and people, and that credit belongs to the humans who do the work, not to us.
So what is the point? We are building a measuring machine you can trust. It makes two promises:
- Every number shows its working, so anyone can re-check it and land on the same answer.
- The machine flags its own mistakes before anyone else has to point them out.
It is a lot like homework. The impressive thing is not blurting out an answer before anyone else. It is showing every step so a friend can follow along, checking your own work, and saying "here is the part I am not sure about" instead of pretending to be certain.
To prove the machine is honest, we invite outside experts to try to break it, round after round -- seventeen rounds so far. Every time they find a flaw, we fix it, and then we add a permanent automatic check so that same mistake can never slip through again. The thing we are really making is not a planet. It is trust you can verify.
Why it matters: in a world full of loud, confident claims, a system that shows its work, admits its limits, and corrects itself in the open is rare -- and useful. That is what we practice here: honest, checkable measurement, done in public.
site: spacedatarig.app
repo: github.com/SpaceDataRig/spac…
Space Data Rig surfaced 3 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-1007.01, P=6.9 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
Space Data Rig surfaced 3 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-1007.01, P=6.9 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
Space Data Rig surfaced 3 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-1007.01, P=6.9 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Space Data Rig flagged 3 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates in its blind survey of real TESS photometry (e.g. TOI-1007.01, P=6.9 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Space Data Rig surfaced 3 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-1007.01, P=6.9 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Space Data Rig flagged 3 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates in its blind survey of real TESS photometry (e.g. TOI-1007.01, P=6.9 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Space Data Rig surfaced 3 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-1007.01, P=6.9 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Its blind sweep of real TESS photometry turned up 3 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates (e.g. TOI-1007.01, P=6.9 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Space Data Rig re-verified the known exoplanet KELT-9 b (P=1.48 +/- 0.01 d) and sealed the analysis on-chain.
This is a recovery check against a planet astronomers already know, not a claimed discovery.
Proof:
- On-chain transaction: explorer.solana.com/tx/3Rvhe…
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
Space Data Rig surfaced 19 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-1978.01, P=6.1 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Space Data Rig flagged 8 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates in its blind survey of real TESS photometry (e.g. TOI-4470.01, P=2.23 +/- 0.02 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
Its blind sweep of real TESS photometry turned up 16 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates (e.g. TOI-2024.01, P=2.89 +/- 0.04 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Space Data Rig surfaced 15 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-5099.01, P=1.148 +/- 0.007 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Space Data Rig surfaced 14 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-1271.01, P=6.2 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
53
Space Data Rig surfaced 16 new periodic-dip candidates in real TESS photometry -- all still UNCONFIRMED (e.g. TOI-589.01, P=2.51 +/- 0.03 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Its blind sweep of real TESS photometry turned up 10 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates (e.g. TOI-1124.01, P=3.54 +/- 0.06 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
45
Space Data Rig flagged 18 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates in its blind survey of real TESS photometry (e.g. TOI-1978.01, P=6.1 +/- 0.2 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
3
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Its blind sweep of real TESS photometry turned up 9 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates (e.g. TOI-4470.01, P=2.23 +/- 0.02 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
2
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Its blind sweep of real TESS photometry turned up 13 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates (e.g. TOI-2024.01, P=2.89 +/- 0.04 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
These are leads for people to check, found on the detector's own -- each stays UNCONFIRMED, for human follow-up rather than a confirmed planet.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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Its blind sweep of real TESS photometry turned up 6 new UNCONFIRMED transit candidates (e.g. TOI-1773.01, P=1.47 +/- 0.01 d; re-injection recovered it in 8/8 trials).
A candidate is a periodic dip the detector flagged without being told where to look; each stays UNCONFIRMED and is posted for human follow-up.
Proof:
- Live rig + full methods: spacedatarig.app
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