Recovery of TESS Stellar Rotation Periods Using Deep Learning

Abstract

We used a convolutional neural network to infer stellar rotation periods from a set of synthetic light curves simulated with realistic spot evolution patterns. We convolved these simulated light curves with real TESS light curves containing minimal intrinsic astrophysical variability to allow the network to learn TESS systematics and estimate rotation periods despite them. In addition to periods, we predict uncertainties via heteroskedastic regression to estimate the credibility of the period predictions. In the most credible half of the test data, we recover 10%-accurate periods for 46% of the targets, and 20%-accurate periods for 69% of the targets. Using our trained network, we successfully recover periods of real stars with literature rotation measurements, even past the 13.7-day limit generally encountered by TESS rotation searches using conventional period-finding techniques. Our method also demonstrates resistance to half-period aliases. We present the neural network and simulated training data, and introduce the software butterpy used to synthesize the light curves using realistic star spot evolution.

arXiv comment18 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to AAS Journals. For a brief video explaining this paper, see https://youtu.be/JNmMzHshyY0 . The code to simulate star spot evolution and light curves, butterpy, is available at https://github.com/zclaytor/butterpy

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