DELOS is a deep‑learning framework that uses contrastive scoring to perform blind searches for shallow transits in Kepler photometry. It combines GPU‑accelerated phase folding, optimized phase binning, and a custom one‑dimensional convolutional encoder to produce a transit‑likeness score periodogram without relying on pre‑detected events. In tests on synthetic data and controlled injection‑recovery experiments, DELOS outperforms traditional methods (BLS and TLS) in precision‑recall and speed, and successfully recovers all known shallow intermediate‑to‑long‑period transit signals in a selected Kepler sample.
By Qingtian Liu, Jian Ge, XingChen Yan, Kevin Willis, Xinyu Yao, QuanQuan Hu, Jiapeng Zhu
arXiv:2606. 18932v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivated by the observational incompleteness of intermediate-to-long-period Earth-size planets, we present TransitNet, a compact attention-augmented deep-learning framework for low-SNR transit blind searches.
By Xingchen Yan, Jian Ge, Qingtian Liu, Kevin Willis, Quanquan Hu, Jiapeng Zhu
arXiv:2606. 18464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Detecting the tiny Doppler shifts induced by Earth-mass planets in stellar radial-velocity measurements remains extremely challenging due to stellar activity.
By Isidro G\'omez-Vargas, Xavier Dumusque, Yinan Zhao, Khaled Al Moulla, Michael Cretignier
arXiv:2608. 19419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Microlensing can reveal populations of faint compact objects that are otherwise difficult to detect.
By Atousa Kalantari, Somayeh Khakpash, Sedighe Sajadian, Hosein Haghi, Willow Fox Fortino, Rosanne Di Stefano
arXiv:2510. 06200v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current time series foundation model (TSFM) training corpora largely omit data with certain complexities like irregular temporal sampling.
By Weijian Li, Hong-Yu Chen, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Ved G. Shah, Dongho Kim, Dennis Wu, Qinjie Lin, Adam A. Miller, Han Liu
STRADAViT is a self‑supervised continued‑pretraining framework that adapts Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones for radio‑astronomy image analysis. It curates mixed‑survey data, generates radio‑astronomy‑aware training views, and initializes encoders with ViT‑MAE, optionally adding register tokens. Evaluations on three morphology benchmarks (MiraBest, LoTSS DR2, and Radio Galaxy Zoo) show that a register‑based two‑stage checkpoint improves linear‑probe Macro‑F1 scores over the ViT‑MAE baseline and enhances fine‑tuning on MiraBest and RGZ DR1, though performance on LoTSS DR2 fine‑tuning declines; these differences are statistically significant.
By Andrea DeMarco, Ian Fenech Conti, Hayley Camilleri, Ardiana Bushi, Simone Riggi
arXiv:2606. 23766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The detection and atmospheric characterization of exoplanets have entered a new data-intensive era driven by the James Webb Space Telescope and the upcoming Ariel mission.
By Muallim Yakubu, Vwavware Oruaode Jude
arXiv:2607. 00228v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) generate hundreds of thousands of alerts each night, making real-time decisions for follow-up observations a central challenge in time-domain astronomy.
By Ved G. Shah, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Adam A. Miller, Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, Michael W. Coughlin, Antoine Le Calloch, Matthew J. Graham, Joahan Castaneda Jaimes, Theophile Jegou du Laz, Ashish A. Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Josiah Purdum, Reed Riddle, Jesper Sollerman, Anastasia Wei, Mansi M. Kasliwal
arXiv:2606. 28446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Light curves describe temporal variations in the brightness of celestial objects.
By Yicheng Rui
arXiv:2602. 10330v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Context: The characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres has been transformed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), whose infrared sensitivity enables transmission spectroscopy at unprecedented precision.
By David S. Duque-Casta\~no, Lauren Flor-Torres, Jorge I. Zuluaga
arXiv:2609.13514v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Ensuring the reliability of black-box machine learning models in safety-critical space missions remains a significant challenge, particularly when grou...
By Nikki Grens, Lu\'is F. Sim\~oes, Kai Hou Yip, Theresa Lueftinger
arXiv:2608.29145v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The rapid expansion of low Earth orbit satellites such as Starlink is increasingly contaminating astronomical surveys. In practice, contaminated imag...
By Shingeon Kim, Hyeyoon Lee, Dain Kwon, Kanghyun Choi, Sunjong Park, Mi-Ryang Kim, Jeong-Eun Lee, Jinho Lee