Identifying Exoplanets with Machine Learning Methods: A Preliminary Study

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00721v1
• Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 23:48:26 GMT
• Title: Identifying Exoplanets with Machine Learning Methods: A Preliminary Study
• Authors: Yucheng Jin, Lanyi Yang, Chia-En Chiang
• Abstract summary: We propose the idea of using machine learning methods to identify exoplanets. We used the Kepler dataset collected by NASA from the Kepler Space Observatory to conduct supervised learning. We also conducted unsupervised learning, which divides confirmed exoplanets into different clusters, using k-means clustering.
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• Abstract: The discovery of habitable exoplanets has long been a heated topic in astronomy. Traditional methods for exoplanet identification include the wobble method, direct imaging, gravitational microlensing, etc., which not only require a considerable investment of manpower, time, and money, but also are limited by the performance of astronomical telescopes. In this study, we proposed the idea of using machine learning methods to identify exoplanets. We used the Kepler dataset collected by NASA from the Kepler Space Observatory to conduct supervised learning, which predicts the existence of exoplanet candidates as a three-categorical classification task, using decision tree, random forest, na\"ive Bayes, and neural network; we used another NASA dataset consisted of the confirmed exoplanets data to conduct unsupervised learning, which divides the confirmed exoplanets into different clusters, using k-means clustering. As a result, our models achieved accuracies of 99.06%, 92.11%, 88.50%, and 99.79%, respectively, in the supervised learning task and successfully obtained reasonable clusters in the unsupervised learning task.

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