RIVERS - AI based search for Exoplanets

RIVERS: Recognition of Interval Variations in Exoplanet Recovery Surveys

Space-based transit surveys (NASA Kepler/K2, NASA TESS and ESA PLATO) are goldmines for our knowledge of extrasolar systems and their architecture (spatial and mass repartition of exoplanets). However, these mines haven’t been exploited to their full potential yet. As shown in papers from Kepler science-team members, small (e.g. terrestrial) planets whose orbit is heavily perturbed by planet-planet interactions cannot be recovered by standard data-processing tools. We have developed the RIVERS approach, based on Convolutional DenseNet, to recover the faint signal of these rocky worlds from noisy data.

Involved researchers

Y. Eyholzer, A. Leleu, S. Udry

Paper link: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021A%26A...655A..66L/abstract