DELOS: Detecting Shallow Transits in Kepler Photometry Using a Contrastive-Learning Framework

arXiv:2605.29428 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-19 · Read on arXiv

Qingtian Liu, Jian Ge, XingChen Yan, Kevin Willis, Xinyu Yao, QuanQuan Hu, Jiapeng Zhu

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-19

Updated: 2026-08-20

Comments: 25 pages, 19 figures, 1 table, submitted to AJ

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Contrastive Learning — 17× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Data Augmentation — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• AUC — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Machine Learning — 4× in this paper
• Representation Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transit Least Squares — 4× in this paper
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Box-fitting Least Squares — 2× in this paper
• Computational overhead — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 2× in this paper
• False-Alarm Probability — 2× in this paper
• International Conference on Computer Vision — 2× in this paper
• Low SNR Group — 2× in this paper
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• According to the Kepler Object of Interest — 1× in this paper
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Area Under the Curve — 1× in this paper
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Kepler Input Catalog — 1× in this paper
• Microlensing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes — 1× in this paper
• Receiver Operating Characteristic — 1× in this paper
• Signal Detection Efficiency — 1× in this paper
• Signal Residual — 1× in this paper
• Streaming Multiprocessor — 1× in this paper
• Synthetic Data Generation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Wavelet-based Adaptive-matched Filter — 1× in this paper

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• ET White Paper: To Find the First Earth 2.0
• Run Away From your Teacher: Understanding BYOL by a Novel Self-Supervised Approach

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