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Main Authors: Jia, Ming-Hui, Luo, A-Li, Qiu, Bo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21240
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author Jia, Ming-Hui
Luo, A-Li
Qiu, Bo
author_facet Jia, Ming-Hui
Luo, A-Li
Qiu, Bo
contents Stellar flares offer invaluable insights into stellar magnetic activity and exoplanetary environments. Automated flare detection enables exploiting vast photometric datasets from missions like Kepler. This paper presents FCN4Flare, a deep learning approach using fully convolutional networks (FCN) for precise point-to-point flare prediction regardless of light curve length. Key innovations include the NaN Mask to handle missing data automatedly, and the Mask Dice loss to mitigate severe class imbalance. Experimental results show that FCN4Flare significantly outperforms previous methods, achieving a Dice coefficient of 0.64 compared to the state-of-the-art of 0.12. Applying FCN4Flare to Kepler-LAMOST data, we compile a catalog of 30,285 high-confidence flares across 1426 stars. Flare energies are estimated and stellar/exoplanet properties analyzed, identifying pronounced activity for an M-dwarf hosting a habitable zone planet. This work overcomes limitations of prior flare detection methods via deep learning, enabling new scientific discoveries through analysis of photometric time-series data. Code is available at https://github.com/NAOC-LAMOST/fcn4flare .
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spellingShingle FCN4Flare: Fully Convolution Neural Networks for Flare Detection
Jia, Ming-Hui
Luo, A-Li
Qiu, Bo
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Stellar flares offer invaluable insights into stellar magnetic activity and exoplanetary environments. Automated flare detection enables exploiting vast photometric datasets from missions like Kepler. This paper presents FCN4Flare, a deep learning approach using fully convolutional networks (FCN) for precise point-to-point flare prediction regardless of light curve length. Key innovations include the NaN Mask to handle missing data automatedly, and the Mask Dice loss to mitigate severe class imbalance. Experimental results show that FCN4Flare significantly outperforms previous methods, achieving a Dice coefficient of 0.64 compared to the state-of-the-art of 0.12. Applying FCN4Flare to Kepler-LAMOST data, we compile a catalog of 30,285 high-confidence flares across 1426 stars. Flare energies are estimated and stellar/exoplanet properties analyzed, identifying pronounced activity for an M-dwarf hosting a habitable zone planet. This work overcomes limitations of prior flare detection methods via deep learning, enabling new scientific discoveries through analysis of photometric time-series data. Code is available at https://github.com/NAOC-LAMOST/fcn4flare .
title FCN4Flare: Fully Convolution Neural Networks for Flare Detection
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21240