Spatiotemporal Correlation Analysis of Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator Power Deficits and Plasma Density Gradients in Deep Space Probes: A Multimission Replication Study

This replication study was generated entirely by Gemini 3 Deep Research (Google DeepMind) as an independent computational verification of the original analysis presented in:

Ahaneku, O. (2025). Voyager 1 Rate-Shift Evidence Beyond the Heliopause. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18025135

The AI system was provided with the original methodology and tasked with:

1. Retrieving publicly available telemetry and environmental data
2. Implementing the statistical methods (HAC regression, first-difference correlation, phase-randomized surrogate testing)
3. Independently computing all reported statistics
4. Assessing the reproducibility of the claimed correlations

All data sources are drawn from NASA Planetary Data System archives, ESA mission repositories, and peer-reviewed literature. No manual adjustment of parameters or post-hoc selection was performed. The complete computational pipeline is documented for reproducibility.

The replication was extended with the inclusion of the following space probes: Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11 and New Horizons