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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

Of over 5,000 exoplanets identified so far, only a few hundred possess sub-Earth radii. The formation processes of these sub-Earths remain elusive, and acquiring additional samples is essential for investigating this unique population. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Kaitlyn Wang , Jian Ge , Kevin Willis , Kevin Wang , Yinan Zhao , Quanquan Hu

We present the Cambridge Exoplanet Transit Recovery Algorithm (CETRA), a fast and sensitive transit detection algorithm, optimised for GPUs. CETRA separates the task into a search for transit signals across linear time space, followed by a…

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 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

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…

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…

Never before has the detection and characterization of exoplanets via transit photometry been as promising and feasible as it is now, due to the increasing breadth and sensitivity of time domain optical surveys. Past works have made use of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Anna Zuckerman , James Davenport , Steve Croft , Andrew Siemion , Imke de Pater

The new generation of observatories and instruments (VLT/ERIS, JWST, ELT) motivate the development of robust methods to detect and characterise faint and close-in exoplanets. Molecular mapping and cross-correlation for spectroscopy use…

In the last decade, over a million stars were monitored to detect transiting planets. Manual interpretation of potential exoplanet candidates is labor intensive and subject to human error, the results of which are difficult to quantify.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Kyle A. Pearson , Leon Palafox , Caitlin A. Griffith

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

This paper introduces a phase tracking method for planetary radio science research with computational algorithm implemented fo r NVIDIA GPUs. In contrast to the phase-locked loop (PPL) phase counting method used in traditional Doppler data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Nianchuan Jian , Dmitry Mikushin , Jianguo Yan

We develop a method for planet detection in transit data, which is based on the Matched Filter technique, combined with the Gaussianization of the noise outliers. The method is based on Fourier transforms and is as fast as the existing…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Jakob Robnik , Uroš Seljak

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

Transiting planets manifest themselves by a periodic dimming of their host star by a fixed amount. On the other hand, light curves of transiting circumbinary (CB) planets are expected to be neither periodic nor to have a single depth while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-13 Aviv Ofir

As machine learning algorithms become increasingly accessible, a growing number of organizations and researchers are using these technologies to automate the process of exoplanet detection. These mainly utilize Convolutional Neural Networks…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Jakob Roche

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 DEtection in phase-folded Light curves with cOntrastive Scoring (DELOS), a contrastive-learning-based framework designed to search for shallow transits in Kepler photometry. DELOS combines GPU-accelerated phase folding, optimized…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Qingtian Liu , Jian Ge , XingChen Yan , Kevin Willis , Xinyu Yao , QuanQuan Hu , Jiapeng Zhu

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission measured light from stars in ~75% of the sky throughout its two year primary mission, resulting in millions of TESS 30-minute cadence light curves to analyze in the search for…

[Abridged] We present the results of a highly parallel Kepler equation solver using the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) on a commercial nVidia GeForce 280GTX and the "Compute Unified Device Architecture" programming environment. We apply…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-17 Eric B. Ford
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