Paper 3

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Attached: Paper 3 v3.1.135 — "Spectrally Unusual Sources at Scale: A Multi-Survey Catalog of 378,280 Path-C Unique Anomalies and a Native-Trained Novelty Fraction from 37.3 Million Sources and Map Patches"
Source: pipelines/p3_anomaly_engine/paper3_draft.tex
PDF: PDF · 32 pp · v3.1.130 · updated Jul 1, 2026 · md5 68a38fa2

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1. Recommendation: ACCEPT / MINOR REVISIONS / MAJOR REVISIONS / REJECT
2. BLOCKERS (must fix before publication) — list each with section/line + proposed fix
3. MAJORS (should fix) — same format
4. MINORS (polish) — same format
5. Strengths (>= 3 bullet points)
6. Specific scrutiny on:
   - 378,280 anomalies headline (=378,080 + 200) across 7 surveys
   - 7-way 5″ positional FoF dedup arithmetic (10,213 = 637 + 9,576)
   - Fisher-positivity caveats in §6 — canonical 1σ envelope σ(f_NL) ∈ [3.92, 8.98] under 1/σ² = F_0 + c·α² (NOT the retracted symmetric ±2.37 form)
   - σ(f_NL)=8.14 central at empirical α=0.19 jackknife (jk dispersion 0.65) at <1σ from null
   - v3.1.71 cross-vendor R-round (Grok+GPT+Perplexity, 13 findings) — 0 VERIFIED, 13 STALE → clean-round closure deliverable
   - NANOGrav 15-yr γ = 2.567 ± 0.382 (real-KDE Zenodo emcee fit); matter-bounce γ=3.0 at +1.13σ; SMBHB γ=4.33 at +4.61σ; Savage-Dickey B_mb/SMBHB = 7,138 decisive

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