DTARPS. II. 462 new TESS candidates

This paper follows the methodology developed by Melton+ (Paper I, 2024AJ....167..202M) using light curves extracted and preprocessed by the DIAmante project. PaperI emerged with a list of 7377 light curves with statistical properties characteristic of transiting planets but dominated by false alarms and false positives.

Here a multistage vetting procedure is applied including: centroid motion and crowding metrics, false alarm and false positive reduction, photometric binary elimination, and ephemeris match removal. The vetting produces a catalog of 462 DTARPS-S candidates across the southern ecliptic hemisphere and 310 objects in a spatially incomplete Galactic plane list. 58% were not previously identified as transiting systems. Candidates are flagged for possible blending from nearby stars based on Zwicky Transient Facility data and for possible radial velocity variations based on Gaia satellite data.