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The Search For Life: Exoplanet Detection With Deep Learning, Natasha Scannell
The Search For Life: Exoplanet Detection With Deep Learning, Natasha Scannell
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The discovery of new exoplanets, planets outside of our solar system, is essential for increasing our understanding of the universe. Exoplanets capable of harboring life are particularly of interest. Over 600 GB of data was collected by the Kepler Space Telescope, and about 30 GB is being collected each day by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite since its launch in 2018. Traditional methods of experts examining this data manually are no longer tractable; automation is necessary to accomplish the task of vetting all of this data to identify planet candidates from astrophysical false positives.
Previous state-of-the-art models, Astronet and Exonet, …