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In the preparation for ESA's Euclid mission and the large amount of data it will produce, we train deep convolutional neural networks on Euclid simulations classify solar system objects from other astronomical sources. Using transfer…

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In this work, 1272 superflares on 311 stars are collected from 22,539 solar-type stars from the second-year observation of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which almost covered the northern hemisphere of the sky. Three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Zuo-Lin Tu , Ming Yang , H. -F. Wang , F. Y. Wang

Many moons have been detected around planets in our Solar System, but none has been detected unambiguously around any of the confirmed extrasolar planets. We test the feasibility of a supervised convolutional neural network to classify…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Rasha Alshehhi , Kai Rodenbeck , Laurent Gizon , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Stellar flares offer invaluable insights into stellar magnetic activity and exoplanetary environments. Automated flare detection enables exploiting vast photometric datasets from missions like Kepler. This paper presents FCN4Flare, a deep…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 Ming-Hui Jia , A-Li Luo , Bo Qiu

We present a systematic search for wide-separation (Einstein radius >1.5"), galaxy-scale strong lenses in the 30 000 sq.deg of the Pan-STARRS 3pi survey on the Northern sky. With long time delays of a few days to weeks, such systems are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-08 R. Canameras , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixe , C. Lemon , K. Rojas , E. Savary

Flares are a well-studied aspect of the Sun's magnetic activity. Detecting and classifying solar flares can inform the analysis of contamination caused by stellar flares in exoplanet transmission spectra. In this paper, we present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Nicole Hao , Laura Flagg , Ray Jayawardhana

An important part of breast cancer staging is the assessment of the sentinel axillary node for early signs of tumor spreading. However, this assessment by pathologists is not always easy and retrospective surveys often requalify the status…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-30 Eric Bonnet

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe $\sim$150~million stars brighter than $T_{\rm mag} \approx 16$, with photometric precision from 60~ppm to 3~percent, enabling an array of exoplanet and stellar astrophysics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Ryan J. Oelkers , Keivan G. Stassun

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

Quasars experiencing strong lensing offer unique viewpoints on subjects related to the cosmic expansion rate, the dark matter profile within the foreground deflectors, and the quasar host galaxies. Unfortunately, identifying them in…

The discovery of exoplanets has expanded our understanding of planetary systems and opened new avenues for astronomical research. In this study, we present a machine learning (ML) framework for exoplanet identification using a time-series…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Reihaneh Karimi , Mahdiyar Mousavi-Sadr , Mohammad H. Zhoolideh Haghighi , Fatemeh S. Tabatabaei

Eclipsing binaries are crucial astrophysical laboratories for studying stellar parameters and evolutionary processes. In this study, we constructed a machine-learning-based model for systematic phenomenological classification of eclipsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Shi-Qi Liu , Kai Li , Xiao-Dian Chen , Li-Heng Wang

Recently, outstanding identification rates in image classification tasks were achieved by convolutional neural networks (CNNs). to use such skills, selective CNNs trained on a dataset of well-known images of metal surface defects captured…

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Solar energy is one of the most dependable renewable energy technologies, as it is feasible almost everywhere globally. However, improving the efficiency of a solar PV system remains a significant challenge. To enhance the robustness of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Maryam Paparimoghadamborazjani , Amin Kazemi

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

In the near-future, dedicated telescopes observe Earth-like exoplanets in reflected light, allowing their characterization. Because of the huge distances, every exoplanet will be a single pixel, but temporal variations in its spectral flux…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 K. Meinke , D. M. Stam , P. M. Visser

Future large-scale surveys with high resolution imaging will provide us with a few $10^5$ new strong galaxy-scale lenses. These strong lensing systems however will be contained in large data amounts which are beyond the capacity of human…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 C. Schaefer , M. Geiger , T. Kuntzer , J-P. Kneib

As performance of dedicated facilities continually improved, massive pulsar candidates are being received, which makes selecting valuable pulsar signals from candidates challenging. In this paper, we designed a deep convolutional neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Yuanchao Wang , Mingtao Li , Zhichen Pan , Jianhua Zheng

Since the start of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) program, more than 160 transiting exoplanets have been discovered in the WASP data. In the past, possible transit-like events identified by the WASP pipeline have been vetted by…

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to perform fast classification and detection on natural images and have potential to infer astrophysical parameters on the exponentially increasing amount of sky survey imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Bialopetravičius , D. Narbutis , V. Vansevičius