Beyond Spherical geometry: Unraveling complex features of objects orbiting around stars from its transit light curve using deep learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14875v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:44:10 GMT
• Title: Beyond Spherical geometry: Unraveling complex features of objects orbiting around stars from its transit light curve using deep learning
• Authors: Ushasi Bhowmick, Shivam Kumaran,
• Abstract summary: We train deep neural networks to predict Fourier coefficients directly from simulated light curves.<n>Our results demonstrate that the neural network can successfully reconstruct the low-order ellipses.<n>The level of reconstruction achieved by the neural network underscores the utility of using light curves as a means to extract information from transiting systems.
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• Abstract: Characterizing the geometry of an object orbiting around a star from its transit light curve is a powerful tool to uncover various complex phenomena. This problem is inherently ill-posed, since similar or identical light curves can be produced by multiple different shapes. In this study, we investigate the extent to which the features of a shape can be embedded in a transit light curve. We generate a library of two-dimensional random shapes and simulate their transit light curves with light curve simulator, Yuti. Each shape is decomposed into a series of elliptical components expressed in the form of Fourier coefficients that adds increasingly diminishing perturbations to an ideal ellipse. We train deep neural networks to predict these Fourier coefficients directly from simulated light curves. Our results demonstrate that the neural network can successfully reconstruct the low-order ellipses, which describe overall shape, orientation and large-scale perturbations. For higher order ellipses the scale is successfully determined but the inference of eccentricity and orientation is limited, demonstrating the extent of shape information in the light curve. We explore the impact of non-convex shape features in reconstruction, and show its dependence on shape orientation. The level of reconstruction achieved by the neural network underscores the utility of using light curves as a means to extract geometric information from transiting systems.

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