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SPOCK 2.0: Update to the FeatureClassifier in the Stability of Planetary Orbital Configurations Klassifier

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2025-01-28 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Machine Learning

Abstract

The Stability of Planetary Orbital Configurations Klassifier (SPOCK) package collects machine learning models for predicting the stability and collisional evolution of compact planetary systems. In this paper we explore improvements to SPOCK's binary stability classifier (FeatureClassifier), which predicts orbital stability by collecting data over a short N-body integration of a system. We find that by using a system-specific timescale (rather than a fixed 10410^4 orbits) for the integration, and by using this timescale as an additional feature, we modestly improve the model's AUC metric from 0.943 to 0.950 (AUC=1 for a perfect model). We additionally discovered that 10%\approx 10\% of N-body integrations in SPOCK's original training dataset were duplicated by accident, and that <1%<1\% were misclassified as stable when they in fact led to ejections. We provide a cleaned dataset of 100,000+ unique integrations, release a newly trained stability classification model, and make minor updates to the API.

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@article{arxiv.2501.15017,
  title  = {SPOCK 2.0: Update to the FeatureClassifier in the Stability of Planetary Orbital Configurations Klassifier},
  author = {Elio Thadhani and Yolanda Ba and Hanno Rein and Daniel Tamayo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.15017},
  year   = {2025}
}

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3 pages, 1 table. Submitted to RNAAS