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With the availability of large-scale surveys like Kepler and TESS, there is a pressing need for automated methods to classify light curves according to known classes of variable stars. We introduce a new algorithm for classifying light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Nicholas H. Barbara , Timothy R. Bedding , Ben D. Fulcher , Simon J. Murphy , Timothy Van Reeth

Astronomy light curves are sparse, gappy, and heteroscedastic. As a result standard time series methods regularly used for financial and similar datasets are of little help and astronomers are usually left to their own instruments and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-27 Ashish Mahabal , Kshiteej Sheth , Fabian Gieseke , Akshay Pai , S. George Djorgovski , Andrew Drake , Matthew Graham , the CSS/CRTS/PTF Collaboration

Attitude is one of the crucial parameters for space objects and plays a vital role in collision prediction and debris removal. Analyzing light curves to determine attitude is the most commonly used method. In photometric observations,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-03 Hui Li , Rong-Wang Li , Peng Shu , Yu-Qiang Li

In modern astrophysics, the machine learning has increasingly gained more popularity with its incredibly powerful ability to make predictions or calculated suggestions for large amounts of data. We describe an application of the supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang , Fan Yang

Light curves serve as a valuable source of information on stellar formation and evolution. With the rapid advancement of machine learning techniques, it can be effectively processed to extract astronomical patterns and information. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Yu-Yang Li , Yu Bai , Cunshi Wang , Mengwei Qu , Ziteng Lu , Roberto Soria , Jifeng Liu

We introduce a new machine learning based technique to detect exoplanets using the transit method. Machine learning and deep learning techniques have proven to be broadly applicable in various scientific research areas. We aim to exploit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Abhishek Malik , Benjamin P. Moster , Christian Obermeier

This study applied machine learning models to estimate stellar rotation periods from corrected light curve data obtained by the NASA Kepler mission. Traditional methods often struggle to estimate rotation periods accurately due to noise and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Fatemeh Fazel Hesar , Bernard Foing , Ana M. Heras , Mojtaba Raouf , Victoria Foing , Shima Javanmardi , Fons J. Verbeek

We investigate the extent to which supervised machine learning techniques can distinguish between neutron-star matter models using macroscopic and oscillation-related quantities derived from theoretical stellar configurations. Four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Wasif Husain

During the last decade, a considerable amount of effort has been made to classify variable stars using different machine learning techniques. Typically, light curves are represented as vectors of statistical descriptors or features that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Carlos Aguirre , Karim Pichara , Ignacio Becker

Magnetic activity in stars manifests as dark spots on their surfaces that modulate the brightness observed by telescopes. These light curves contain important information on stellar rotation. However, the accurate estimation of rotation…

We propose a new framework to predict stellar properties from light curves. We analyze the light-curve data from the Kepler space mission and develop a novel tool for deriving the stellar rotation periods for main-sequence stars. Using this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 Ilay Kamai , Hagai B. Perets

During the last decade, considerable effort has been made to perform automatic classification of variable stars using machine learning techniques. Traditionally, light curves are represented as a vector of descriptors or features used as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Ignacio Becker , Karim Pichara , Márcio Catelan , Pavlos Protopapas , Carlos Aguirre , Fatemeh Nikzat

Photometric missions such as Kepler and TESS have generated millions of light curves covering almost the entire sky, offering unprecedented opportunities to study stellar variability and advance our understanding of the Universe. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Paul F. X. Gregory , Jeroen Audenaert , Mykyta Kliapets , Daniel Muthukrishna , Andrew Tkachenko , Marek Skarka , Marc Hon , George R. Ricker

Archives of long photometric surveys, like the Kepler database, are a gold mine for studying flares. However, identifying them is a complex task; while in the case of single-target observations it can be easily done manually by visual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Krisztián Vida , Rachael M. Roettenbacher

The growth of sky surveys and the large amount of stellar spectra in the current databases, has generated the necessity of developing new methods to estimate atmospheric parameters, a fundamental task on stellar research. In this work we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-27 Miguel Flores R. , Luis J. Corral , Celia R. Fierro-Santillán

The efficient classification of different types of supernova is one of the most important problems for observational cosmology. However, spectroscopic confirmation of most objects in upcoming photometric surveys, such as the The Rubin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Miguel Quartin , Ribamar R. R. Reis

Recent developments in computational power and machine learning techniques motivate their use in many different astrophysical research areas. Consequently, many machine learning models have been trained to classify exoplanet transit signals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Ayan Bin Rafaih , Zachary Murray

Particle track reconstruction is the most computationally intensive process in nuclear physics experiments. Traditional algorithms use a combinatorial approach that exhaustively tests track measurements ("hits") to identify those that form…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Angelos Angelopoulos , Gagik Gavalian , Nikos Chrisochoides

Identifying stars belonging to different classes is vital in order to build up statistical samples of different phases and pathways of stellar evolution. In the era of surveys covering billions of stars, an automated method of identifying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Sean Enis Cody , Sebastian Scher , Iain McDonald , Albert Zijlstra , Emma Alexander , Nick L. J. Cox

The rapid advancement of observational capabilities in astronomy has led to an exponential growth in the volume of light curve (LC) data, creating both opportunities and challenges for time-domain astronomy. Traditional analytical methods…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Almat Akhmetali , Alisher Zhunuskanov , Aknur Sakan , Marat Zaidyn , Timur Namazbayev , Dana Turlykozhayeva , Nurzhan Ussipov
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