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High-resolution Doppler spectroscopy is a powerful tool for identifying molecular species in the atmospheres of both transiting and non-transiting exoplanets. Currently, such data is analysed using cross-correlation techniques to detect the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Christopher Watson , Ernst de Mooij , Danny Steeghs , Tom Marsh , Matteo Brogi , Neale Gibson , Shannon Matthews

This study employs scientific machine learning to identify transient time series of dynamical systems near a fold bifurcation of periodic solutions. The unique aspect of this work is that a convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Giuseppe Habib , Ádám Horváth

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

In the blooming field of exoplanetary science, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets. Kepler's very precise and long-duration photometry is ideal for detecting planetary transits around Sun-like…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Giacomo Fragione , Idan Ginsburg

The Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP; Huang et al. 2020, Kunimoto et al. 2021 and references therein) searches for transit signals in the multi-sector light curves of several hundreds of thousand stars observed by TESS every 27.4-day sector. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-03 Michelle Kunimoto , Evan Tey , Willie Fong , Katharine Hesse , Glen Petitpas , Avi Shporer

Convolutional neural network (CNN) models have been widely used for fault diagnosis of complex systems. However, traditional CNN models rely on small kernel filters to obtain local features from images. Thus, an excessively deep CNN is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Qiugang Lu , Saif S. S. Al-Wahaibi

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will photometrically monitor approximately 1 billion stars for ten years. The resulting light curves can be used to detect transiting exoplanets. In particular, as demonstrated by Lund et al.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-24 Savannah R. Jacklin , Michael B. Lund , Joshua Pepper , Keivan G. Stassun

(Abridged) Space missions to search for exo-planets via the transit method, such as COROT, Eddington and Kepler, will need to address problems associated with the automated and efficient detection of planetary transits in light curves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Aigrain , M. Irwin

New photometric space missions to detect and characterise transiting exoplanets are focusing on bright stars to obtain high cadence, high signal-to-noise light curves. Since these missions will be sensitive to stellar oscillations and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 S. C. C. Barros , O. Demangeon , R. F. Díaz , J. Cabrera , N. C. Santos , J. P. Faria , F. Pereira

This paper studies inference acceleration using distributed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in collaborative edge computing network. To avoid inference accuracy loss in inference task partitioning, we propose receptive field-based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nan Li , Alexandros Iosifidis , Qi Zhang

Transits of habitable planets around solar-like stars are expected to be shallow, and to have long periods, which means low information content. The current bottleneck in the detection of such transits is caused in large part by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Shay Zucker , Raja Giryes

We present Pandora, a new software to model, detect, and characterize transits of extrasolar planets with moons in stellar photometric time series. Pandora uses an analytical description of the transit light curve for both the planet and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-20 Michael Hippke , René Heller

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 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

We present a proof of concept for a new algorithm which can be used to detect exoplanets in high contrast images. The algorithm properly combines mutliple observations acquired during different nights, taking into account the orbital motion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Nowak , H. Le Coroller , L. Arnold , K. Dohlen , D. Estevez , T. Fusco , J. -F. Sauvage , A. Vigan

Observations of exoplanet atmospheres in high resolution have the potential to resolve individual planetary absorption lines, despite the issues associated with ground-based observations. The removal of contaminating stellar and telluric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Annabella Meech , Suzanne Aigrain , Matteo Brogi , Jayne Birkby

We present fBLS -- a novel fast-folding technique to search for transiting planets, based on the fast-folding algorithm (FFA), which is extensively used in pulsar astronomy. For a given lightcurve with $N$ data points, fBLS simultaneously…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Sahar Shahaf , Barak Zackay , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler , Oryna Ivashtenko

We describe a new metric that uses machine learning to determine if a periodic signal found in a photometric time series appears to be shaped like the signature of a transiting exoplanet. This metric uses dimensionality reduction and…

The identification, and subsequent discovery, of fast radio transients through blind-search surveys requires a large amount of processing power, in worst cases scaling as $\mathcal{O}(N^3)$. For this reason, survey data are generally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 Alessio Magro , Aris Karastergiou , Stefano Salvini , Benjamin Mort , Fred Dulwich , Kristian Zarb Adami

In a previous paper we presented the Directed Follow-Up (DFU) approach, which we suggested can be used to efficiently augment low-cadence photometric surveys in a way that will optimize the chances to detect transiting exoplanets. In this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-30 Yifat Dzigan , Shay Zucker