RETIRED (2b reconcile): this was a grab-bag minted before the concrete compact-star bases existed. Decomposed into its actual member datasets — D-10 - Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic dataset (SDSS white-dwarf masses → S-61), S-66 - Demorest et al. 2010 — Shapiro delay measurement of a two-solar-mass neutron star (Demorest NS), S-70 - Hansen et al. 2007 — Cooling of white dwarfs and the age of the globular cluster NGC 6397 (Hansen WD ages), S-80 - Antoniadis et al. 2013, A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary (Antoniadis NS) — so step 5 can see S-37’s astro bound as correlated with the census papers that supply its empirical anchor. Sole referrer S-37 repointed. Retained per move-never-delete.
Body of astrophysical observations that dense compact stars (white dwarfs, neutron stars) exist and survive for Gyr timescales, used as the empirical anchor of the Premise-B “cosmic rays would have destroyed them already” bound against stable TeV black holes. known_biases: the inference is model-dependent (cosmic-ray stable-BH production rate, capture and accretion physics inside the star); a shared error in that chain would move every source leaning on the compact-star survival argument together.