A New Statistical Model of Star Speckles for Learning to Detect and Characterize Exoplanets in Direct Imaging Observations
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| author | Bodrito, Théo Flasseur, Olivier Mairal, Julien Ponce, Jean Langlois, Maud Lagrange, Anne-Marie |
| author_facet | Bodrito, Théo Flasseur, Olivier Mairal, Julien Ponce, Jean Langlois, Maud Lagrange, Anne-Marie |
| contents | The search for exoplanets is an active field in astronomy, with direct imaging as one of the most challenging methods due to faint exoplanet signals buried within stronger residual starlight. Successful detection requires advanced image processing to separate the exoplanet signal from this nuisance component. This paper presents a novel statistical model that captures nuisance fluctuations using a multi-scale approach, leveraging problem symmetries and a joint spectral channel representation grounded in physical principles. Our model integrates into an interpretable, end-to-end learnable framework for simultaneous exoplanet detection and flux estimation. The proposed algorithm is evaluated against the state of the art using datasets from the SPHERE instrument operating at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). It significantly improves the precision-recall trade-off, notably on challenging datasets that are otherwise unusable by astronomers. The proposed approach is computationally efficient, robust to varying data quality, and well suited for large-scale observational surveys. |
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| spellingShingle | A New Statistical Model of Star Speckles for Learning to Detect and Characterize Exoplanets in Direct Imaging Observations Bodrito, Théo Flasseur, Olivier Mairal, Julien Ponce, Jean Langlois, Maud Lagrange, Anne-Marie Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning Applications The search for exoplanets is an active field in astronomy, with direct imaging as one of the most challenging methods due to faint exoplanet signals buried within stronger residual starlight. Successful detection requires advanced image processing to separate the exoplanet signal from this nuisance component. This paper presents a novel statistical model that captures nuisance fluctuations using a multi-scale approach, leveraging problem symmetries and a joint spectral channel representation grounded in physical principles. Our model integrates into an interpretable, end-to-end learnable framework for simultaneous exoplanet detection and flux estimation. The proposed algorithm is evaluated against the state of the art using datasets from the SPHERE instrument operating at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). It significantly improves the precision-recall trade-off, notably on challenging datasets that are otherwise unusable by astronomers. The proposed approach is computationally efficient, robust to varying data quality, and well suited for large-scale observational surveys. |
| title | A New Statistical Model of Star Speckles for Learning to Detect and Characterize Exoplanets in Direct Imaging Observations |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17117 |