Properties of the simulated BH-LC population, with coloured highlights showing the subsets of systems that were selected using the mmmr and qmin methods. The panels show the input distributions of P_orb, q, M₁ and M₂, the distributions of the measured properties A_ell and K, and the behaviour of A_ell as a function of T-band apparent magnitude and the RMS of the base light curve. The latter property includes shot noise which depends on SNR (and hence is related to T-band magnitude), but also includes additional scatter due to TESS instrument systematics or intrinsic stellar variability.