Orbital periods of TIC 36332984.01 and TIC 238395674.01 are undetermined

Determine the orbital periods of the TESS planet candidates TIC 36332984.01 and TIC 238395674.01, which passed initial vetting but whose orbital periods could not be uniquely determined from the available TESS observations.

Background

The authors report two additional candidates—TIC 36332984.01 and TIC 238395674.01—that passed vetting but lacked sufficient phase coverage to determine unique orbital periods. For TIC 238395674, they further observed signs of a likely multiplanet system, including two transits of TIC 238395674.01 and a single transit of TIC 238395674.02.

Because the orbital periods are not uniquely constrained, these candidates are excluded from the occurrence rate analysis, motivating follow-up to establish their ephemerides.

References

We identify two new additional candidates, TIC 36332984.01 and TIC 238395674.01, which both pass all of our initial vetting procedures, but we are unable to uniquely determine the orbital periods.

— The occurrence of small, short-period planets younger than 200 Myr with TESS  (2403.03261 - Vach et al., 2024) in Subsection 'Candidates Identified but Not Included in the Occurrence Rate Calculations' within Section 4 (Planet Detection Pipeline)