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In this work, six convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been trained based on %different feature images and arrays from the database including 15,638 superflare candidates on solar-type stars, which are collected from the three-years…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Zuo-Lin Tu , Qin Wu , Wenbo Wang , G. Q. Zhang , Zi-Ke Liu , F. Y. Wang

Magnetic activity in stars manifests as dark spots on their surfaces that modulate the brightness observed by telescopes. These light curves contain important information on stellar rotation. However, the accurate estimation of rotation…

This paper is to introduce an online tool for the prediction of exoplanet transit light curves. Small telescopes can readily capture exoplanet transits under good weather conditions when the combination of a bright star and a large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Peter Beck , Luke Robson , Mark Gallaway , Hugh R. A. Jones , David Campbell

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 presence of silicate material in known rings in the Solar System raises the possibility of ring systems existing even within the snow line -- where most transiting exoplanets are found. Previous studies have shown that the detection of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-29 Edan Rein , Aviv Ofir

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

The observed light curves of most eclipsing binaries and stars with transiting planets can be well described and interpreted by current advanced physical models which also allow for the determination of many physical parameters of eclipsing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Zdeněk Mikulášek

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

We present a new few-parameter phenomenological model of light curves of eclipsing binaries and stars with transiting planets that is able to fit the observed light curves with the accuracy better than 1\% of their amplitudes. The model can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-27 Zdeněk Mikulášek , Miloslav Zejda , Theodor Pribulla , Martin Vaňko , Shen-Bang Qian , Li-Ying Zhu

There is a unique solution of the planet and star parameters from a planet transit light curve with two or more transits if the planet has a circular orbit and the light curve is observed in a band pass where limb darkening is negligible.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sara Seager , Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas

The light curve of an exoplanetary transit can be used to estimate the planetary radius and other parameters of interest. Because accurate parameter estimation is a non-analytic and computationally intensive problem, it is often useful to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua A. Carter , Jennifer C. Yee , Jason Eastman , B. Scott Gaudi , Joshua N. Winn

The light curve of an exoplanetary transit can be used to estimate the planetary radius and other parameters of interest. Because accurate parameter estimation is a non-analytic and computationally intensive problem, it is often useful to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua A. Carter , Jennifer C. Yee , Jason Eastman , B. Scott Gaudi , Joshua N. Winn

This paper describes a simple activity for plotting and characterizing the light curve from an exoplanet transit event by way of differential photometry analysis. Using free digital imaging software, participants analyse a series of…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-09-04 Michael Cowley , Stephen Hughes

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

Transiting exoplanets in multi-planet systems exhibit non-Keplerian orbits as a result of the gravitational influence from companions which can cause the times and durations of transits to vary. The amplitude and periodicity of the transit…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-24 Kyle A. Pearson

Raw light curve data from exoplanet transits is too complex to naively apply traditional outlier detection methods. We propose an architecture which estimates a latent representation of both the main transit and residual deviations with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Christoph J. Hönes , Benjamin Kurt Miller , Ana M. Heras , Bernard H. Foing

Exoplanets are celestial bodies orbiting stars beyond our Solar System. Although historically they posed detection challenges, Kepler's data has revolutionized our understanding. By analyzing flux values from the Kepler Mission, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Maneet Chatterjee , Anuvab Sen , Subhabrata Roy

Precise physical properties of the known transiting exoplanets are essential for their precise atmospheric characterization using modern and upcoming instruments. Leveraging the large volume of high SNR photometric follow-up data from TESS,…

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

We derive solutions to transit light curves of exoplanets orbiting rapidly-rotating stars. These stars exhibit significant oblateness and gravity darkening, a phenomenon where the poles of the star have a higher temperature and luminosity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Shashank Dholakia , Rodrigo Luger , Shishir Dholakia

We present an algorithm that allows fast and efficient detection of transits, including planetary transits, from light-curves. The method is based on building an ensemble of fiducial models and compressing the data using the MOPED…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pavlos Protopapas , Raul Jimenez , Charles Alcock