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Substellar companions such as exoplanets and brown dwarfs exhibit changes in brightness arising from top-of-atmosphere inhomogeneities, providing insights into their atmospheric structure and dynamics. This variability can be measured in…

Automated planetary transit detection has become vital to prioritize candidates for expert analysis given the scale of modern telescopic surveys. While current methods for short-period exoplanet detection work effectively due to periodicity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Shreshth A. Malik , Nora L. Eisner , Chris J. Lintott , Yarin Gal

Main-sequence stars earlier than spectral type ~F6 or so are expected to rotate rapidly due to their radiative exteriors. This rapid rotation leads to an oblate stellar figure. It also induces the photosphere to be hotter (by up to several…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jason W. Barnes

Transit photometry is currently the most efficient and sensitive method for detecting extrasolar planets (exoplanets) and a large majority of confirmed exoplanets have been detected with this method. The substantial success of space-based…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Hossein Fatheddin , Sedighe Sajadian

The detection of exoplanets through direct imaging has produced numerous new positive identifications in recent years. The technique is biased towards planets at wide separations due to the difficulty in removing the stellar signature at…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Stephen R. Kane

The detection of transits is an efficient technique to uncover faint companions around stars. The full characterisation of the companions (M-type stars, brown dwarfs or exoplanets) requires high-resolution spectroscopy to measure properly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Gallardo , D. Minniti , D. Valls-Gabaud , M. Rejkuba

Transmission spectroscopy of Earth-like exoplanets is a potential tool for habitability screening. Transiting planets are present-day "Rosetta Stones" for understanding extrasolar planets because they offer the possibility to characterize…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 L. Kaltenegger , W. A. Traub

Transiting planet lightcurves have historically been used predominantly for measuring the depth and hence ratio of the planet-star radii, p. Equations have been previously presented by Seager & Mallen-Ornelas (2003) for the analysis of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David M. Kipping

We present the first exact analytical solutions for exoplanet transit light curves under arbitrary real power-law limb darkening, $I(\mu) = I_0\mu^\alpha$ with $\alpha > -2$, removing the two-decade restriction to integer-polynomial forms.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Farrukh A. Chishtie , Mohammad I. Saeed , Shaukat N. Goderya

Outlier detection is a crucial analytical tool in various fields. In critical systems like manufacturing, malfunctioning outlier detection can be costly and safety-critical. Therefore, there is a significant need for explainable artificial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Patrick Knab , Sascha Marton , Christian Bartelt , Robert Fuder

Anomalies in the domain of autonomous driving are a major hindrance to the large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicles. In this work, we focus on high-resolution camera data from urban scenes that include anomalies of various types and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Daniel Bogdoll , Svetlana Pavlitska , Simon Klaus , J. Marius Zöllner

Exoplanets are celestial bodies orbiting stars beyond our Solar System. Although historically they posed detection challenges, Kepler's data has revolutionized our understanding. By analyzing flux values from the Kepler Mission, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Maneet Chatterjee , Anuvab Sen , Subhabrata Roy

Observations of stellar surfaces - except for the Sun - are hampered by their tiny angular extent, while observed spectral lines are smeared by averaging over the stellar surface, and by stellar rotation. Exoplanet transits can be used to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Dainis Dravins , Hans-Günter Ludwig , Erik Dahlén , Hiva Pazira

In this article we present the application of classical and quantum-classical hybrid anomaly detection schemes to explore exotic configuration with anomalous features. We consider the Anderson model as a prototype where we define two types…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Kumar J. B. Ghosh , Sumit Ghosh

The detection of planetary transits in the light curves of active stars, featuring correlated noise in the form of stellar variability, remains a challenge. Depending on the noise characteristics, we show that the traditional technique that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-23 Lionel Garcia , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Catriona A. Murray , Suzanne Aigrain , Dax L. Feliz , Francisco J. Pozuelos

The probability of the detection of Earth-like exoplanets may increase in the near future after the launch of the space missions using the transit photometry as observation method. By using this technique only the semi-major axis of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zsolt Sandor

Prediction of network traffic behavior is significant for the effective management of modern telecommunication networks. However, the intuitive approach of predicting network traffic using administrative experience and market analysis data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Sajal Saha , Anwar Haque , Greg Sidebottom

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…

We present an efficient analytical method to predict the maximum transit timing variations of a circumbinary exoplanet, given some basic parameters of the host binary. We derive an analytical model giving limits on the potential location of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 D. Armstrong , D. V. Martin , G. Brown , F. Faedi , Y. Gómez Maqueo Chew , R. Mardling , D. Pollacco , A. H. M. J. Triaud , S. Udry