exoplanet_model2.0

🪐 Exoplanet Classifier 2.0

Model repo: mibrahimzia/exoplanet_model2.0

Model Description:

This model classifies potential exoplanet detections as:

✅ Confirmed Exoplanet

🟡 Candidate

❌ False Positive

It is trained on NASA’s Kepler (KOI cumulative) and TESS (TOI) catalogs, preprocessed into a tabular dataset of orbital and stellar parameters.

Algorithm: XGBoost classifier

Version: 2.0 (merged Kepler + TESS, larger dataset)

Input features:

orbital_period (days)

transit_duration (hours)

planet_radius (Earth radii)

star_temp (Kelvin)

star_radius (Solar radii)

Labels:

1 = Confirmed

0 = Candidate

-1 = False Positive

The model demonstrates strong performance in distinguishing confirmed exoplanets from candidates/false positives:

Accuracy: ~91% (on validation set)

ROC-AUC: 0.93 (see ROC curve below)

Precision/Recall:

Confirmed (Label 1): Precision ~0.90, Recall ~0.88

Not Confirmed (Labels 0/-1): Precision ~0.92, Recall ~0.94

ROC Curve

The ROC curve shows the model achieves an AUC of 0.93, indicating excellent separability.

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Probability Distribution

The predicted probabilities clearly separate confirmed planets (green) and non-confirmed (red). The default threshold of 0.5 provides a good trade-off between precision and recall.