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Establish the criteria for including Venus flyby residuals in the GCFT public forecast ledger.

June 3, 2026Open Access

GCFT Venus Clock-Link Residual Template Gate

Key Points

Establish the criteria for including Venus flyby residuals in the GCFT public forecast ledger.
Defined full ordinary null involving multiple physical systems including general relativity and spacecraft dynamics.
Specified three candidate template families: potential-gradient gate, path-integral coherence gate, clock-pair response gate.
Introduced the Hot/Cold paired residual protocol to ensure residuals survive high-stress environments.
No candidate template family has been finalized yet.
Current assessment indicates ledger admissibility is FALSE due to under-derived status.
Residuals must avoid adding any Venus-specific parameters post-data collection.

Abstract

A pre-forecast protocol establishing the conditions under which a Venus flyby, orbiter, clock-link, Doppler, range, or optical-link residual may enter the GCFT public forecast ledger. The paper defines the full ordinary null — general relativity, solar potential, Venus gravity, spacecraft dynamics, plasma, atmosphere, thermal, and instrumental systematics — that must be exhausted before any coherence-field claim is evaluated. Three candidate template families are specified (potential-gradient gate, path-integral coherence gate, clock-pair response gate), none yet frozen. The central methodological contribution is the Hot/Cold paired residual protocol: a Venus-linked residual is admissible only if it survives both the high-coupling stress environment of the encounter and the quiet precision baseline of cruise arcs, without adding a Venus-specific parameter after the data appear. Current verdict: UNDERDERIVED/PENDING. Ledger admissibility: FALSE.

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