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This study investigate the effectiveness of using Deep Learning (DL) for the classification of planetary nebulae (PNe). It focusses on distinguishing PNe from other types of objects, as well as their morphological classification. We adopted…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-01 Dayang N. F. Awang Iskandar , Albert A. Zijlstra , Iain McDonald , Rosni Abdullah , Gary A. Fuller , Ahmad H. Fauzi , Johari Abdullah

Detached eclipsing binary stars (dEBs) are a key source of data on fundamental stellar parameters. Within the light curve databases of survey missions such as Kepler and TESS are a wealth of new systems awaiting characterisation. We aim to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Stephen Overall , John Southworth

Deep learning techniques have been well explored in the transiting exoplanet field; however, previous work mainly focuses on classification and inspection. In this work, we develop a novel detection algorithm based on a well proven object…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Kaiming Cui , Junjie Liu , Fabo Feng , Jifeng Liu

Recent studies indicate that the physical properties of eclipsing binaries can be extracted from the derivatives of their light curves. A classification scheme for the derivatives of light curves would be helpful for identifying key…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Shinjirou Kouzuma

Large surveys producing tera- and petabyte-scale databases require machine-learning and knowledge discovery methods to deal with the overwhelming quantity of data and the difficulties of extracting concise, meaningful information with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 M. Süveges , F. Barblan , I. Lecoeur-Taïbi , A. Prša , B. Holl , L. Eyer , A. Kochoska , N. Mowlavi , L. Rimoldini

Eclipsing binary systems (EBs), as foundational objects in stellar astrophysics, have garnered significant attention in recent years. These systems exhibit periodic decreases in light intensity when one star obscures the other from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Ying Shan , Jing Chen , Zichong Zhang , Liang Wang , Zhiqiang Zou , Min Li

We have developed a fully-automated pipeline for systematically identifying and analyzing eclipsing binaries within large datasets of light curves. The pipeline is made up of multiple tiers which subject the light curves to increasing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan Devor

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

In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network architecture for galaxies classification is presented. The galaxy can be classified based on its features into main three categories Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular. The proposed deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Nour Eldeen M. Khalifa , Mohamed Hamed N. Taha , Aboul Ella Hassanien , I. M. Selim

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

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…

We introduce a special class of functions for mathematical modeling of periodic signals of special shape with irregularly spaced arguments. This method was developed for determination of phenomenological characteristics of the light curves,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ivan L. Andronov

We present a detailed V-band photometric light curve modeling of 30 eclipsing binaries using the data from Pietrukowicz et al. (2009) collected with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT) of diameter 8-m. The light…

With the availability of large-scale surveys like Kepler and TESS, there is a pressing need for automated methods to classify light curves according to known classes of variable stars. We introduce a new algorithm for classifying light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Nicholas H. Barbara , Timothy R. Bedding , Ben D. Fulcher , Simon J. Murphy , Timothy Van Reeth

In the last ten years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have formed the basis of deep-learning architectures for most computer vision tasks. However, they are not necessarily optimal. For example, mathematical morphology is known to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Theodore Aouad , Hugues Talbot

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

During the last decade, a considerable amount of effort has been made to classify variable stars using different machine learning techniques. Typically, light curves are represented as vectors of statistical descriptors or features that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Carlos Aguirre , Karim Pichara , Ignacio Becker

The transit method allows the detection and characterization of planetary systems by analyzing stellar light curves. Convolutional neural networks appear to offer a viable solution for automating these analyses. In this research, two 1D…

The orbital inclination of an eclipsing binary is generally determined through light curve analysis. Binary parameters in the light curve analysis are typically constrained through the use of optimization and sampling techniques. We propose…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Shinjirou Kouzuma

Common variable star classifiers are built only with the goal of producing the correct class labels, leaving much of the multi-task capability of deep neural networks unexplored. We present a periodic light curve classifier that combines a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Benny T. -H. Tsang , William C. Schultz