Beyond the z = 15 Catalogue Wall: Conditional GCFT Prior Grading and Image-Level Vetting in COSMOS-Web

Abstract

A claim-bounded JWST study combining a blind JADES DR5 ranking ablation with a 784,016-row COSMOS2025 posterior audit, extended-grid EAZY refitting, and image-level vetting. COSMOS2025 521341 survives as a spectroscopy-priority target, but remains unconfirmed; the blind comparison shows no GCFT ranking advantage.Keywords: General Coherence Field Theory, COSMOS-Web, COSMOS2025, James Webb Space Telescope, high-redshift galaxies, photometric redshifts, candidate grading, EAZY, spectroscopic follow-up, reproducible astronomy.This record contains semantic-twin Day / White Academia and Night / Black Art reading editions generated from one protected manuscript, together with reproducibility materials, metadata, citation information, validation receipts, and checksums. The two editions are textually identical and differ only in presentation, allowing readers to choose the format they find most comfortable or visually preferable.