Discovery of water vapour in a temperate atmosphere around a Super-Earth
Water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a super-Earth with habitable temperatures by UCL researchers in a world first. K2-18b, which is eight tim...
The Project Blog
2019
Data Challenge Results!
The Ariel Machine Learning Data Challenge has concluded and we are excited to announce the winners at the European Machine Learning Conference (ECML-PKDD) an...
Direct Imaging with deep learning
Discovering planets is a difficult task, and it is especially true for direct Imaging. In this blog post, I am going to briefly explain how neural network ca...
Deep learning Saturn
Today we’ve published a paper on deep learning applied to Saturn in Nature Astronomy. The link to the paper is here. We’ve also got a press release here.
Ariel Machine Learning Data Challenge 2019
We are excited to announce that the ExoAI team together with the European Space Agency’s ARIEL mission have launched the first machine learning data challeng...
Digital Exoplanets 2019
Just a quick note that we will be co-hosting the first exoplanet workshop focused on code development for exoplanet atmospheric studies. The workshop called ...
2018
Exoplanet characterisation with deep learning
This is project looked at deep learning applications for spectral retrieval of exoplanet spectra. Spectral retrievals are essentially a fancy way of fitting ...
Why SuperEarths are the goal
From the avalanche of recent discoveries (over 3500 confirmed and counting), we have learned something rather unexpected. Despite our strong observational bi...
2017
55 Cnc e
This was a project last year in which we discovered the first atmosphere of a super-Earth. This is the paper. The exotic exoplanet, 55 Cancri e, is over eigh...