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Hundreds of Thousands of Eclipsing Binaries Discovered Through Machine Learning

Presentation #402.06 in the session “Mining TESS Data with Machine Learning and Other Advanced Methods”.

Published onJan 11, 2021
Hundreds of Thousands of Eclipsing Binaries Discovered Through Machine Learning

We have created over 60 million light curves from the TESS full frame images using a local implementation of the eleanor pipeline: a light curve for nearly every star brighter than 15th magnitude in the 26 TESS prime mission sectors. With this unprecedented set of light curves, we have developed a machine learning classification tool to identify classes of variable stars. Here I will focus on the ~300,000 eclipsing binaries identified via this machine learning classifier. I will present the overall sample, discuss our filters and sensitivity limits, and show how we have uniformly modeled them all. I will also present preliminary population results as well as highlight unique discoveries in unusual regions of parameter space.

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