This is the unique lightcurve detected by the mannequin from Kepler’s Quarter 16 commentary. Quarter 16 lasted roughly 80 days. Figure 1 depicts the lightcurve that the mannequin flagged as presumably being a transit. While some long-term variation within the brightness is noticed, it doesn’t appear to impression the recurrence of a sign with a interval of 2.9376 days. While the lightcurve shares some traits of variable star lightcurves, this star shouldn’t be catalogued as a variable7 . While it’s potential that it’s an uncatalogued variable, the star’s relative proximity to Earth (round 978 ly), and the extent to which we’ve catalogued close by variables8makes this unlikely. — astro-ph.EP
This paper presents the detection of a periodic dimming occasion within the lightcurve of the G1.5IV-V kind star KIC 1718360. This is predicated on visible-light observations performed by each the TESS and Kepler area telescopes.
Analysis of the information factors towards a potential orbiting physique with a radius of roughly 1.048 Earth Radii with a interval of 2.938 days, in addition to a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU. The preliminary commentary was made in Kepler Quarter 16 knowledge utilizing the One-Class SVM machine studying technique. Subsequent observations by the TESS area telescope corroborate these findings.
While nonetheless requiring additional knowledge to validate, these outcomes could contribute to a rising physique of knowledge of Earthlike planets with short-period orbits.
Jakob Roche
Comments: 6 pages, 6 figuresSubjects: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); Machine Learning (cs.LG)Cite as: arXiv:2405.05282 [astro-ph.EP] (or arXiv:2405.05282v1 [astro-ph.EP] for this model)Submission historyFrom: Jakob Roche[v1] Tue, 7 May 2024 12:34:18 UTC (233 KB)https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05282Astrobiology,
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https://astrobiology.com/2024/05/the-detection-of-a-possible-exoplanet-orbiting-kic-1718360-using-machine-learning.html
