Analysis reveals that roughly a quarter of candidate doubly eclipsing stars are blended known systems, highlighting the need to address false positives in dense fields.
In this work, I report that large fraction of stars detected by \'Ad\'am et al. (2023, A&A, 674, A170, arXiv:2304.08394) and noted in that work as new discoveries are in fact known systems. This is especially true for the dense bulge fields with large blending of nearby sources. Among the published 245 stars determined to be doubly eclipsing (i.e. containing two eclipsing signals), I identified 53 blends. In other words, about a quarter of the systems noted by \'Ad\'am et al. (2023, A&A, 674, A170) are not actually doubly eclipsing; rather, these are contaminations of known nearby sources that have already been detected by OGLE. Such a high proportion of reported false positives should not be readily ignored and ought to be addressed in future studies.
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