10-Feb-2022: New artificial Intelligence-based tools can help finding habitable planets

Humanity's interest in finding other inhabited worlds from the vast number of planets in the galaxy. There is a question of whether there are other life-harboring planets and hence, the need for a way to predict potentially habitable exoplanets

Anomaly Detection Method

• Indian astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and BITS Pilani, Goa Campus have developed it.
• Based on the postulate that Earth is an anomaly
• Assessment of 60 potentially habitable planets out of about 5000 confirmed and nearly 8000 candidate planets
• Candidates for anomalous instances in a large pool of non-habitable exoplanets
• Anomaly detection method used for industrial systems applies to habitable planet detection

Imbalanced Data and Anomaly Detection

• Habitable exoplanets and anomalous behavior of industrial components are outliers
• Fewer in number compared to normal data
• Characterizing anomalous instances requires multiple planetary parameters from observations
• Tedious job to scan thousands of planets manually

The Role of AI in Finding Habitable Planets

• AI can effectively find habitable planets
• Utilization of AI-based algorithms
• AI can save hours of expensive telescope time

AI-based algorithms can aid in finding potentially habitable planets. There is a need for further research and advancements in AI technology.