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Analyzing the Habitable Zones of Circumbinary Planets Using Machine Learning

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2022-05-03 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Machine Learning

Abstract

Exoplanet detection in the past decade by efforts including NASA's Kepler and TESS missions has discovered many worlds that differ substantially from planets in our own Solar System, including more than 150 exoplanets orbiting binary or multi-star systems. This not only broadens our understanding of the diversity of exoplanets, but also promotes our study of exoplanets in the complex binary systems and provides motivation to explore their habitability. In this study, we investigate the Habitable Zones of circumbinary planets based on planetary trajectory and dynamically informed habitable zones. Our results indicate that the mass ratio and orbital eccentricity of binary stars are important factors affecting the orbital stability and habitability of planetary systems. Moreover, planetary trajectory and dynamically informed habitable zones divide planetary habitability into three categories: habitable, part-habitable and uninhabitable. Therefore, we train a machine learning model to quickly and efficiently classify these planetary systems.

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@article{arxiv.2109.08735,
  title  = {Analyzing the Habitable Zones of Circumbinary Planets Using Machine Learning},
  author = {Zhihui Kong and Jonathan H. Jiang and Remo Burn and Kristen A. Fahy and Zonghong Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08735},
  year   = {2022}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2101.02316

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