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Research into light curves from stars (temporal variation of brightness) has completely changed how exoplanets are discovered or characterised. This study including star light curves from the Kepler dataset as a way to discover exoplanets…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Krishna Chamarthy

A novel artificial intelligence (AI) technique that uses machine learning (ML) methodologies combines several algorithms, which were developed by ThetaRay, Inc., is applied to NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) dataset to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Leon Ofman , Amir Averbuch , Adi Shliselberg , Idan Benaun , David Segev , Aron Rissman

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

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

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

The TESS mission produces a large amount of time series data, only a small fraction of which contain detectable exoplanetary transit signals. Deep learning techniques such as neural networks have proved effective at differentiating…

We present a technique for verifying or refuting exoplanet candidates from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission by searching for nearby eclipsing binary stars using higher-resolution archival images from ground-based…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-14 Gabrielle Ross , Andrew Vanderburg , Zoë L. de Beurs , Karen A. Collins , Rob J. Siverd , Kevin Burdge

We determine the starspot detection rate in exoplanetary transit light curves for M and K dwarf stars observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) using various starspot filling factors and starspot distributions. We used…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. Tregloan-Reed , E. Unda-Sanzana

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has a goal of detecting small planets orbiting stars bright enough for mass determination via ground-based radial velocity observations. Here we present estimates of how many exoplanets the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Thomas Barclay , Joshua Pepper , Elisa V. Quintana

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a wide-field all-sky survey mission designed to detect Earth-sized exoplanets. After over four years photometric surveys, data from sectors 1-57, including approximately 1,050,000 light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Li-Heng Wang , Kai Li , Xiang Gao , Ya-Ni Guo , Guo-You Sun

Since the start of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) program, more than 160 transiting exoplanets have been discovered in the WASP data. In the past, possible transit-like events identified by the WASP pipeline have been vetted by…

Space-based photometric surveys have discovered large numbers of planets transiting other stars, but these observe in a single band-pass and yield only the planet radius, orbital period, and transit duration. Information on the masses,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 E. Gaidos , D. Kitzmann , K. Heng

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

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

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) presents us with an unprecedented volume of space-based photometric observations that must be analyzed in an efficient and unbiased manner. With at least $\sim1,000,000$ new light curves…

We present a comparative analysis of observations of the selected exoplanet transits obtained at the Kyiv Comet station with the database of the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and Kepler space telescopes. The light curves…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 M. Lobodenko , Ya. Pavlenko , I. Kulyk , A. Nahurna , M. Solomakha , O. Baransky

State of the art exoplanet transit surveys are producing ever increasing quantities of data. To make the best use of this resource, in detecting interesting planetary systems or in determining accurate planetary population statistics,…

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

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be conducting a nearly all-sky photometric survey over two years, with a core mission goal to discover small transiting exoplanets orbiting nearby bright stars. It will obtain 30-minute…

The discovery of circumbinary planets (CBPs) has advanced our understanding of planet formation and dynamical evolution in complex environments. However, the population of such planets remains small, leading their underlying physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Benjamin D. R. Davies , David J. A. Brown , Samuel Gill , Jenni R. French