mentioned in the previous email stand out as the only candidates. The 2nd solution can still be ruled out at &gt;99% confidence, leading to a unique parameter set. :-)

With things going well, David K contacted the HEK team and told them the good news in the following email.

[**From David K’s email to the HEK team on 1/20/2012:**]{}

David N. and I have been working hard on HCV-439 these last few days are some answers are beginning to emerge. First of all, the new data strongly indicates the presence of star spots. Exomoon-like features seem to correlate with times of maximum activity which is a bad sign for exomoons. I have not run a moon fit through the new data yet, but my instincts are that this is not a moon.

However, the TTVs persist and exhibit a complex and highly significant signal. David N. has managed to obtain what appears to be a unique TTV inverse fit to the data. Let me just stress that this is the 1st time this has ever been done by anyone for a non-transiting perturber and represents a major accomplishment if the solution holds with our subsequent tests. It seems as though 