Issue |
A&A
Volume 694, February 2025
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Article Number | A88 | |
Number of page(s) | 18 | |
Section | Planets, planetary systems, and small bodies | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452379 | |
Published online | 04 February 2025 |
Grid-based exoplanet atmospheric mass-loss predictions via neural networks
Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Schmiedlstrasse 6,
8042
Graz,
Austria
★ Corresponding author; amit.reza@oeaw.ac.at
Received:
26
September
2024
Accepted:
17
December
2024
Context. The fast and accurate estimation of planetary mass-loss rates is critical for planet population and evolution modelling.
Aims. We used machine learning (ML) for fast interpolation across an existing large grid of hydrodynamic upper atmosphere models, providing mass-loss rates for any planet inside the grid boundaries with superior accuracy compared to previously published interpolation schemes.
Methods. We considered an already available grid comprising about 11 000 hydrodynamic upper atmosphere models for training and generated an additional grid of about 250 models for testing purposes. We developed the ML interpolation scheme, dubbed the ‘atmospheric Mass Loss INquiry frameworK’ (MLink), using a dense neural network, further comparing the results with what was obtained employing classical approaches (e.g. linear interpolation and radial-basis-function-based regression). Finally, we studied the impact of the different interpolation schemes on the evolution of a small sample of carefully selected synthetic planets.
Results. MLink provides high-quality interpolation across the entire parameter space by significantly reducing both the number of points with large interpolation errors and the maximum interpolation error compared to previously available schemes. For most cases, evolutionary tracks computed employing MLink and classical schemes lead to comparable planetary parameters on gigayear timescales. However, particularly for planets close to the top edge of the radius gap, the difference between the predicted planetary radii at a given age of tracks obtained employing MLink and classical interpolation schemes can exceed the typical observational uncertainties.
Conclusions. Machine learning can be successfully used to estimate atmospheric mass-loss rates from model grids, paving the way to exploring future larger and more complex grids of models computed accounting for more physical processes.
Key words: hydrodynamics / methods: numerical / planets and satellites: atmospheres
© The Authors 2025
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