Exoplanet Detection using Machine Learning

We introduce a new machine learning based technique to detect exoplanets using the transit method. Machine learning and deep learning techniques have proven to be broadly applicable in various scientific research areas. We aim to exploit some of these methods to improve the conventional algorithm based approach used in astrophysics today to detect exoplanets. We used the popular time-series analysis library'TSFresh' to extract features from lightcurves. For each lightcurve, we extracted 789 features.