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Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. IV. Removing Stellar Activity Signals from Radial Velocity Measurements Using Neural Networks
Zoe L. de Beurs ; Andrew Vanderburg ; Christopher J. Shallue ; Xavier Dumusque ; Andrew Collier Cameron ; Lars A. Buchhave ; Rosario Cosentino ; Adriano Ghedina ; Raphaëlle D. Haywood ; Nicholas Langellier ; David W. Latham ; Mercedes López-Morales ; Michel Mayor ; Giusi Micela ; Timothy W. Milbourne ; Annelies Mortier ; Emilio Molinari ; Francesco Pepe ; David F. Phillips ; Matteo Pinamonti ; Giampaolo Piotto ; Ken Rice ; Dimitar Sasselov ; Alessandro Sozzetti ; Stéphane Udry ; Christopher A. Watson ;
Date:	30 Oct 2020
Abstract:	Exoplanet detection with precise radial velocity (RV) observations is currently limited by spurious RV signals introduced by stellar activity. We show that machine learning techniques such as linear regression and neural networks can effectively remove the activity signals (due to starspots/faculae) from RV observations. Previous efforts focused on carefully filtering out activity signals in time using modeling techniques like Gaussian Process regression (e.g. Haywood et al. 2014). Instead, we systematically remove activity signals using only changes to the average shape of spectral lines, and no information about when the observations were collected. We trained our machine learning models on both simulated data (generated with the SOAP 2.0 software; Dumusque et al. 2014) and observations of the Sun from the HARPS-N Solar Telescope (Dumusque et al. 2015; Phillips et al. 2016; Collier Cameron et al. 2019). We find that these techniques can predict and remove stellar activity from both simulated data (improving RV scatter from 82 cm/s to 3 cm/s) and from more than 600 real observations taken nearly daily over three years with the HARPS-N Solar Telescope (improving the RV scatter from 1.47 m/s to 0.78 m/s, a factor of ~ 1.9 improvement). In the future, these or similar techniques could remove activity signals from observations of stars outside our solar system and eventually help detect habitable-zone Earth-mass exoplanets around Sun-like stars.
Source:	arXiv, 2011.00003
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