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In this work, we explore several ways to detect possible exocomet transits in the TESS (The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) light curves. The first one has been presented in our previous work, a machine learning approach based on the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 D. V. Dobrycheva , I. V. Kulyk , D. R. Karakuts , M. Yu. Vasylenko , Ya. V. Pavlenko , O. S. Shubina , I. V. Luk'yanyk

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

Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) in the scattered disk with 50 < a < 100 au are thought to cluster near Neptune's n:1 resonances (e.g: 3:1, 4:1, and so on). While these objects spend lengthy periods of time at large heliocentric distances, if…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Matthew S. Clement , Scott S. Sheppard

We describe the discovery circumstances and photometric properties of 2000 EB173, now one of the brightest trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with opposition magnitude m_R=18.9 and also one of the largest Plutinos, found with the drift-scanning…

Kuiper belt objects smaller than a few kilometers are difficult to observe directly. They can be detected when they randomly occult a background star. Close to the ecliptic plane, each star is occulted once every tens of thousands of hours,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Guy Nir , Eran O. Ofek , Barak Zackay

The TESS follow-up of a large number of known transiting exoplanets provide unique opportunity to study their physical properties more precisely. Being a space-based telescope, the TESS observations are devoid of any noise component…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Suman Saha

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 variability measurements and partial light curves of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) from a two-night pilot study using Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru Telescope (Maunakea, Hawai'i, USA). Subaru's large aperture (8-m) and…

We propose a new Kepler mission, called NEOKepler, that would survey near Earth's orbit to identify potentially hazardous objects (PHOs). To understand its surveying power, Kepler's large field of view produces an 'etendue' (A*Omega) that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Kevin B. Stevenson , Daniel Fabrycky , Robert Jedicke , William Bottke , Larry Denneau

We test whether the population of "extreme" trans-Neptunian objects (eTNOs) detected in the Y4 Dark Energy Survey (DES) data exhibit azimuthal asymmetries which might be evidence of gravitational perturbations from an unseen super-Earth in…

Using data from the Infrared Array Camera on the Spitzer Space Telescope, we present photometric observations of a sample of 100 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) beyond 2.2 {\mu}m. These observations, collected with two broad-band filters…

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

Looking at the orbits of small bodies with large semimajor axes, we are compelled to see patterns. Some of these patterns are noted as strong indicators of new or hidden processes in the outer Solar System, others are substantially…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 JJ Kavelaars , Samantha M. Lawler , Michele T. Bannister , Cory Shankman

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

The study of the surface properties of Centaurs and Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) provides essential information about the early conditions and evolution of the outer Solar System. Due to the faintness of most of these distant and icy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 D. Perna , M. A. Barucci , S. Fornasier , F. E. DeMeo , A. Alvarez-Candal , F. Merlin , E. Dotto , A. Doressoundiram , C. de Bergh

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

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are among the most primitive remnants of the early Solar System, and constraining their sizes, shapes, albedos, and surface properties is essential for understanding their origin and evolution. Stellar…