Deep-learning based measurement of planetary radial velocities in the presence of stellar variability

04/10/2023
by   Ian Colwell, et al.
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We present a deep-learning based approach for measuring small planetary radial velocities in the presence of stellar variability. We use neural networks to reduce stellar RV jitter in three years of HARPS-N sun-as-a-star spectra. We develop and compare dimensionality-reduction and data splitting methods, as well as various neural network architectures including single line CNNs, an ensemble of single line CNNs, and a multi-line CNN. We inject planet-like RVs into the spectra and use the network to recover them. We find that the multi-line CNN is able to recover planets with 0.2 m/s semi-amplitude, 50 day period, with 8.8 approach shows promise for mitigating stellar RV variability and enabling the detection of small planetary RVs with unprecedented precision.

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