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NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) presents us with an unprecedented volume of space-based photometric observations that must be analyzed in an efficient and unbiased manner. With at least $\sim1,000,000$ new light curves…

The high-precision photometry from NASA's Kepler and TESS missions has revolutionized exoplanet detection, enabling the discovery of over 5500 confirmed exoplanets via the transit method and around 10000 additional candidates awaiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Sarah Huang , Chen Jiang

The TESS mission produces a large amount of time series data, only a small fraction of which contain detectable exoplanetary transit signals. Deep learning techniques such as neural networks have proved effective at differentiating…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~75% of the sky throughout its two year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

The discovery of exoplanets at scale has become one of the defining data science challenges in modern astrophysics. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) had catalogued over 7,800 planet candidates by early 2026, yet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Md. Rashadul Islam

Vetting of exoplanet candidates in transit surveys is a manual process, which suffers from a large number of false positives and a lack of consistency. Previous work has shown that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) provide an efficient…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has a goal of detecting small planets orbiting stars bright enough for mass determination via ground-based radial velocity observations. Here we present estimates of how many exoplanets the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Thomas Barclay , Joshua Pepper , Elisa V. Quintana

We examine the ability of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to detect and improve our understanding of planetary systems in the Kepler field. By modeling the expected transits of all confirmed and candidate planets detected…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Callista N. Christ , Benjamin T. Montet , Daniel C. Fabrycky

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is surveying a large fraction of the sky, generating a vast database of photometric time series data that requires thorough analysis to identify exoplanetary transit signals. Automated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Helem Salinas , Rafael Brahm , Greg Olmschenk , Richard K. Barry , Karim Pichara , Stela Ishitani Silva , Vladimir Araujo

In this work, six convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been trained based on %different feature images and arrays from the database including 15,638 superflare candidates on solar-type stars, which are collected from the three-years…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Zuo-Lin Tu , Qin Wu , Wenbo Wang , G. Q. Zhang , Zi-Ke Liu , F. Y. Wang

The rapid expansion of exoplanet survey missions such as Kepler, TESS, and the upcoming PLATO mission has generated massive light-curve datasets that challenge traditional vetting pipelines. We introduce a hybrid deep-learning framework…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Bibin Thomas , Vittal Bhat M , Salman Arafath Mohammed , Abdul Wase Mohammed , Adis Abebaw Dessalegn , Mohit Mittal

We present 2,241 exoplanet candidates identified with data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) during its two-year prime mission. We list these candidates in the TESS Objects of Interest (TOI) Catalog, which includes both…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-17 Natalia M. Guerrero , S. Seager , Chelsea X. Huang , Andrew Vanderburg , Aylin Garcia Soto , Ismael Mireles , Katharine Hesse , William Fong , Ana Glidden , Avi Shporer , David W. Latham , Karen A. Collins , Samuel N. Quinn , Jennifer Burt , Diana Dragomir , Ian Crossfield , Roland Vanderspek , Michael Fausnaugh , Christopher J. Burke , George Ricker , Tansu Daylan , Zahra Essack , Maximilian N. Günther , Hugh P. Osborn , Joshua Pepper , Pamela Rowden , Lizhou Sha , Steven Villanueva , Daniel A. Yahalomi , Liang Yu , Sarah Ballard , Natalie M. Batalha , David Berardo , Ashley Chontos , Jason A. Dittmann , Gilbert A. Esquerdo , Thomas Mikal-Evans , Rahul Jayaraman , Akshata Krishnamurthy , Dana R. Louie , Nicholas Mehrle , Prajwal Niraula , Benjamin V. Rackham , Joseph E. Rodriguez , Stephen J. L. Rowden , Clara Sousa-Silva , David Watanabe , Ian Wong , Zhuchang Zhan , Goran Zivanovic , Jessie L. Christiansen , David R. Ciardi , Melanie A. Swain , Michael B. Lund , Susan E. Mullally , Scott W. Fleming , David R. Rodriguez , Patricia T. Boyd , Elisa V. Quintana , Thomas Barclay , Knicole D. Colón , S. A. Rinehart , Joshua E. Schlieder , Mark Clampin , Jon M. Jenkins , Joseph D. Twicken , Douglas A. Caldwell , Jeffrey L. Coughlin , Chris Henze , Jack J. Lissauer , Robert L. Morris , Mark E. Rose , Jeffrey C. Smith , Peter Tenenbaum , Eric B. Ting , Bill Wohler , G. Á. Bakos , Jacob L. Bean , Zachory K. Berta-Thompson , Allyson Bieryla , Luke G. Bouma , Lars A. Buchhave , Nathaniel Butler , David Charbonneau , John P. Doty , Jian Ge , Matthew J. Holman , Andrew W. Howard , Lisa Kaltenegger , Stephen R. Kane , Hans Kjeldsen , Laura Kreidberg , Douglas N. C. Lin , Charlotte Minsky , Norio Narita , Martin Paegert , András Pál , Enric Palle , Dimitar D. Sasselov , Alton Spencer , Alessandro Sozzetti , Keivan G. Stassun , Guillermo Torres , Stephane Udry , Joshua N. Winn

Space-based missions such as Kepler, and soon TESS, provide large datasets that must be analyzed efficiently and systematically. Recent work by Shallue & Vanderburg (2018) successfully used state-of-the-art deep learning models to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Megan Ansdell , Yani Ioannou , Hugh P. Osborn , Michele Sasdelli , Jeffrey C. Smith , Jon M. Jenkins , Chedy Raissi , Daniel Angerhausen

Differentiating between real transit events and false positive signals in photometric time series data is a bottleneck in the identification of transiting exoplanets, particularly long-period planets. This differentiation typically requires…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 Valentina Tardugno Poleo , Nora Eisner , David W. Hogg

A novel artificial intelligence (AI) technique that uses machine learning (ML) methodologies combines several algorithms, which were developed by ThetaRay, Inc., is applied to NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) dataset to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Leon Ofman , Amir Averbuch , Adi Shliselberg , Idan Benaun , David Segev , Aron Rissman

We present ExoMiner++, an enhanced deep learning model that builds on the success of ExoMiner to improve transit signal classification in 2-minute TESS data. ExoMiner++ incorporates additional diagnostic inputs, including periodogram, flux…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is providing the scientific community with millions of light curves of stars spread across the whole sky. Since 2018 the telescope has detected thousands of planet candidates that…

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected thousands of exoplanet candidates since 2018, most of which have yet to be confirmed. A key step in the confirmation process of these candidates is ruling out false positives…

Driven largely by multiple ground-based radial-velocity (RV) surveys and photometric space missions such as Kepler and K2, the discovery of new exoplanets has increased rapidly since the early 2000s. However, due to a target selection bias…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 Filipe Pereira

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit bright host stars. Here, we predict the properties of the transiting planets that TESS will…

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