Exocomet Transit and Kepler light curve


  • The Kepler light curve is basically a graph of a star’s brightness over time measured by the Kepler space telescope.

  • Below equation is the light curve of an exocomet transit, describing how the star’s brightness changes over time due to the comet passing in front of it.

  • K → depth factor of the transit (how strong the dimming is)

  • β → rate of exponential change (how fast the brightness decreases or recovers)

  • After t1 brightness slowly returns to normal as the comet tail passes.


  • They used the Adam optimization algorithm to minimize the cross-entropy error function for the classification of the light curves and the mean absolute error function for the position of the transit.

  • Cross-entropy is a way to measure how different two probability distributions are. Adam (Adaptive Moment Estimation) is an improved version of regular gradient descent that helps the model learn faster.


https://arxiv.org/html/2510.14687v1


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