The 'hot Neptune' that was a starspot: killing a transit false positive
A high-SNR BLS transit was a starspot alias of the rotation period. Multi-band depth (chromaticity), rotation-alias, odd-even, secondary-eclipse, and centroid vetoes before spending RV time. Why BLS SNR and single-band photometry lie.
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