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The axis-hot / Cold-Spot-cold member of the {l=2,3} azimuthal family about the CMB Cold Spot axis was derived, registered (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24164370), and tested on the four Planck PR3 maps with 10,000 rotated-axis nulls per map: the fitted amplitude is -5.93 uK in SMICA, consistent with zero at 95% in all four maps, every registered extremum absent; the test is reported as null. The paper also executes F-CS2, the line-of-sight falsifier registered with the boundary paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24147146): the lensing statistic T1 could not be executed because the Planck Legacy Archive's download service returned HTTP 503 on every attempt and no archive serves the named PR3 lensing product (the blocker is printed in full), and the ISW statistic T2, executed with an estimator deposited before grading (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24165606), reconstructs -0.92 uK from the observed 2MPZ density field in the registered cylinder at the standard amplitude A_ISW = 1, in the frozen band in which the line-of-sight account fails as the Cold Spot's primary cause. Authorship and disclosure: the sole author of record is William Alexander Aldred. The derivation, analysis code, execution, and drafting were performed by Dave, the exolex built by the author, acting as the research instrument of Aldred Industries, under the author's direction; the orientation tested here was named by the author. This is the AI-use disclosure for this deposit.
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