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The goal of hyperparameter tuning (or hyperparameter optimization) is to optimize the hyperparameters to improve the performance of the machine or deep learning model. spotPython (``Sequential Parameter Optimization Toolbox in Python'') is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

We present CONAN (COde for exoplaNet ANalysis), an open-source Python package for comprehensive analyses of exoplanetary systems. It provides a unified Bayesian framework to simultaneously analyze diverse exoplanet datasets to derive global…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Babatunde Akinsanmi , Monika Lendl , Andreas Krenn

We introduce pyGSL, a Python library that provides efficient implementations of state-of-the-art graph structure learning models along with diverse datasets to evaluate them on. The implementations are written in GPU-friendly ways, allowing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Max Wasserman , Gonzalo Mateos

We present an algorithm that allows fast and efficient detection of transits, including planetary transits, from light-curves. The method is based on building an ensemble of fiducial models and compressing the data using the MOPED…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pavlos Protopapas , Raul Jimenez , Charles Alcock

We present a PyTorch package that compiles neural networks and their weights from Turing machine descriptions, producing models that exactly simulate the specified machine without any training. Given a transition function and a set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jonathan Bates

We present the easy-to-use, publicly available, Python package petitRADTRANS, built for the spectral characterization of exoplanet atmospheres. The code is fast, accurate, and versatile; it can calculate both transmission and emission…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 P. Mollière , J. P. Wardenier , R. van Boekel , Th. Henning , K. Molaverdikhani , I. A. G. Snellen

We present PyTorch Geometric Temporal a deep learning framework combining state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms for neural spatiotemporal signal processing. The main goal of the library is to make temporal geometric deep learning…

We derive analytic, closed form, numerically stable solutions for the total flux received from a spherical planet, moon or star during an occultation if the specific intensity map of the body is expressed as a sum of spherical harmonics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Rodrigo Luger , Eric Agol , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , David P. Fleming , Jacob Lustig-Yaeger , Russell Deitrick

I present ExoIris, a user-friendly Python package for exoplanet transmission and emission spectroscopy. Unlike existing tools, ExoIris models two-dimensional spectrophotometric transit time series directly and supports the joint analysis of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-11 Hannu Parviainen

The transit method is one of the most relevant exoplanet detection techniques, which consists of detecting periodic eclipses in the light curves of stars. This is not always easy due to the presence of noise in the light curves, which is…

Continuous-depth learning has recently emerged as a novel perspective on deep learning, improving performance in tasks related to dynamical systems and density estimation. Core to these approaches is the neural differential equation, whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Michael Poli , Stefano Massaroli , Atsushi Yamashita , Hajime Asama , Jinkyoo Park

The last decade has witnessed a rapid growth of the field of exoplanet discovery and characterisation. However, several big challenges remain, many of which could be addressed using machine learning methodology. For instance, the most…

Vast amounts of astronomical photometric data are generated from various projects, requiring significant effort to identify variable stars and other object classes. In light of this, a general, widely applicable classification framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Kaiming Cui , D. J. Armstrong , Fabo Feng

Topological features capture global geometric structure in imaging data, but practical adoption in deep learning requires both computational efficiency and differentiability. We present optimized GPU kernels for the Euler Characteristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Udit Saxena

We present Pandora, a new software to model, detect, and characterize transits of extrasolar planets with moons in stellar photometric time series. Pandora uses an analytical description of the transit light curve for both the planet and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-20 Michael Hippke , René Heller

This paper describes a simple activity for plotting and characterizing the light curve from an exoplanet transit event by way of differential photometry analysis. Using free digital imaging software, participants analyse a series of…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-09-04 Michael Cowley , Stephen Hughes

We present a solution for the light curve of two bodies mutually transiting a star with polynomial limb darkening. The term "mutual transit" in this work refers to a transit of the star during which overlap occurs between the two transiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Tyler A. Gordon , Eric Agol

Exoplanet transits contain substantial information about the architecture of a system. By fitting transit light curves we can extract dynamical parameters and place constraints on the properties of the planets and their host star. Having a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Zachary Langford , Eric Agol

Rings around exoplanets (exorings) are one of the most expected discoveries in exoplanetary research. There is an increasing number of theoretical and observational efforts for detecting exorings, but none of them have succeeded yet. Most…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-09 Jorge I. Zuluaga , Mario Sucerquia , Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes

The light curve of an exoplanetary transit can be used to estimate the planetary radius and other parameters of interest. Because accurate parameter estimation is a non-analytic and computationally intensive problem, it is often useful to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua A. Carter , Jennifer C. Yee , Jason Eastman , B. Scott Gaudi , Joshua N. Winn