AI confirms 50 new planets from old NASA data

Stefan Mileschin · 28th August 2020, 09:08

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British boffins have worked out a way to find planets in existing data using AI.

A team led by David Armstrong at the University of Warwick in the UK have developed an AI tool to help validate distant worlds.

Telescopes like NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) look for a telltale dip in brightness that indicates something is passing by a star. Sometimes this is a planet, sometimes it's a glitch, asteroids, dust or a quirk of a binary star system.

The research team created a machine learning algorithm and trained it using data on confirmed planets and false-positives from NASA's retired Kepler mission. Then they turned it loose to analyse a group of unconfirmed planet candidates, also from the Kepler data. In a first, the AI system confirmed 50 planets out of that bunch.

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Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,541	AI confirms 50 new planets from old NASA data No comment from Pluto British boffins have worked out a way to find planets in existing data using AI. A team led by David Armstrong at the University of Warwick in the UK have developed an AI tool to help validate distant worlds. Telescopes like NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) look for a telltale dip in brightness that indicates something is passing by a star. Sometimes this is a planet, sometimes it's a glitch, asteroids, dust or a quirk of a binary star system. The research team created a machine learning algorithm and trained it using data on confirmed planets and false-positives from NASA's retired Kepler mission. Then they turned it loose to analyse a group of unconfirmed planet candidates, also from the Kepler data. In a first, the AI system confirmed 50 planets out of that bunch. https://fudzilla.com/news/51420-ai-c...-old-nasa-data

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