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The Kepler Mission has discovered thousands of planets with radii $<4\ R_\oplus$, paving the way for the first statistical studies of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of these sub-Neptunes and super-Earths. Planetary masses are an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Angie Wolfgang , Leslie A. Rogers , Eric B. Ford

We introduce a novel method for identifying the mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays using deep learning. The key idea of the method is to use a chain of two neural networks. The first network predicts the type of a primary…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 O. Kalashev , I. Kharuk , M. Kuznetsov , G. Rubtsov , T. Sako , Y. Tsunesada , Ya. Zhezher

Exoplanet observations are currently analysed with Bayesian retrieval techniques. Due to the computational load of the models used, a compromise is needed between model complexity and computing time. Analysis of data from future facilities,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Francisco Ardevol Martinez , Michiel Min , Inga Kamp , Paul I. Palmer

The observed sub-structures, like annular gaps, in dust emissions from protoplanetary disk, are often interpreted as signatures of embedded planets. Fitting a model of planetary gaps to these observed features using customized simulations…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Sayantan Auddy , Ramit Dey , Min-Kai Lin , Cassandra Hall

Exploring exoplanets has transformed our understanding of the universe by revealing many planetary systems that defy our current understanding. To study their atmospheres, spectroscopic observations are used to infer essential atmospheric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Flavio Giobergia , Alkis Koudounas , Elena Baralis

Two of TESS's major science goals are to measure masses for 50 planets smaller than 4 Earth radii and to discover high-quality targets for atmospheric characterization efforts. It is important that these two goals are linked by quantifying…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Natasha E. Batalha , Taylor Lewis , Jonathan J. Fortney , Natalie M. Batalha , Eliza Kempton , Nikole K. Lewis , Michael R. Line

Determination of an exoplanet's mass is a key to understanding its basic properties, including its potential for supporting life. To date, mass constraints for exoplanets are predominantly based on radial velocity (RV) measurements, which…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-27 Julien de Wit , Sara Seager

The gravitational influence of a planet on a nearby disk provides a powerful tool for detecting and studying extrasolar planetary systems. Here we demonstrate that gaps can be opened in dynamically cold debris disks at the mean-motion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-30 Maryam Tabeshian , Paul Wiegert

Planets can affect debris disk structure by creating gaps, sharp edges, warps, and other potentially observable signatures. However, there is currently no simple way for observers to deduce a disk-shepherding planet's properties from the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Timothy J. Rodigas , Renu Malhotra , Philip M. Hinz

Detection of Jupiter mass companions to nearby solar type stars with precise radial velocity measurements is now routine, and Doppler surveys are moving towards lower velocity amplitudes. The detection of several Neptune-mass planets with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raman Narayan , Andrew Cumming , D. N. C. Lin

A machine learning technique with two-dimension convolutional neural network is proposed for detecting exoplanet transits. To test this new method, five different types of deep learning models with or without folding are constructed and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Pattana Chintarungruangchai , Ing-Guey Jiang

Precise exoplanet characterization requires precise classification of exoplanet host stars. The masses of host stars are commonly estimated by comparing their spectra to those predicted by stellar evolution models. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Benjamin T. Montet , John Asher Johnson

Planet formation occurs around a wide range of stellar masses and stellar system architectures. An improved understanding of the formation process can be achieved by studying it across the full parameter space, particularly toward the…

Several exoplanets have been detected towards the Galactic bulge with the microlensing technique. We show that exoplanets in M31 may also be detected with the pixel-lensing method, if telescopes making high cadence observations of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Ingrosso , S. Calchi-Novati , F. De Paolis , Ph. Jetzer , A. A. Nucita , A. F. Zakharov

It has recently been demonstrated that deep learning has significant potential to automate parts of the exoplanet detection pipeline using light curve data from satellites such as Kepler \cite{borucki2010kepler} \cite{koch2010kepler} and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 Koray Aydoğan

With planets orbiting stars, a planetary mass function should not be seen as a low-mass extension of the stellar mass function, but a proper formalism needs to take care of the fact that the statistical properties of planet populations are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Dominik

We simulate the formation of planetary systems around Alpha Centauri B. The N-body accretionary evolution of a 1/r disk populated with 400-900 lunar-mass protoplanets is followed for 200 Myr. All simulations lead to the formation of…

Searching for exoplanets with different methods has always been the focus of astronomers over the past few years. Among multiple planet detection techniques, astrometry stands out for its capability to accurately determine the orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Dong-Hong Wu

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

High contrast direct imaging of exoplanets can provide many important observables, including measurements of the orbit, spectra that probe the lower layers of the atmosphere, and phase variations of the planet, but cannot directly measure…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Christopher C. Stark , Courtney Dressing , Shannon Dulz , Eric Lopez , Mark S. Marley , Peter Plavchan , Johannes Sahlmann