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A&A
Volume 695, March 2025
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Article Number | A81 | |
Number of page(s) | 27 | |
Section | Numerical methods and codes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452020 | |
Published online | 10 March 2025 |
Detection of oscillation-like patterns in eclipsing binary light curves using neural network-based object detection algorithms
1
Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, HUN-REN, MTA Centre of Excellence,
Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 15–17.,
1121
Budapest, Hungary
2
Department of Space Sciences and Technologies, Faculty of Sciences, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University,
Terzioǧlu Campus,
17100
Çanakkale, Turkey
3
Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Physics and Astronomy,
1117
Budapest,
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/a,
, Hungary
★ Corresponding author; burak.ulas@comu.edu.tr
Received:
27
August
2024
Accepted:
28
January
2025
Aims. The primary aim of this research is to evaluate several convolutional neural network-based object detection algorithms for identifying oscillation-like patterns in light curves of eclipsing binaries. This involved creating a robust detection framework that can effectively process both synthetic light curves and real observational data.
Methods. The study employs several state-of-the-art object detection algorithms, including Single Shot MultiBox Detector, Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network, You Only Look Once, and EfficientDet, as well as a custom non-pretrained model implemented from scratch. Synthetic light curve images and images derived from observational TESS light curves of known eclipsing binaries with a pulsating component were constructed with corresponding annotation files using custom scripts. The models were trained and validated on established datasets, which was followed by testing on unseen Kepler data to assess their generalisation performance. The statistical metrics were also calculated to review the quality of each model.
Results. The results indicate that the pre-trained models exhibit high accuracy and reliability in detecting the targeted patterns. The Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network and You Only Look Once in particular showed superior performance in terms of object detection evaluation metrics on the validation dataset, including a mean average precision value exceeding 99%. The Single Shot MultiBox Detector, on the other hand, is the fastest, although it shows a slightly lower performance, with a mean average precision of 97%. These findings highlight the potential of these models to significantly contribute to the automated determination of pulsating components in eclipsing binary systems and thus facilitate more efficient and comprehensive astrophysical investigations.
Key words: methods: data analysis / techniques: image processing / binaries: eclipsing / stars: oscillations
© The Authors 2025
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