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Meir Schochet
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Astro PhD student at Michigan State
Stars, liberation, cat dad to Oliver
opinions my own
https://m-schochet.github.io
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We find periods in stars across the HR diagram using a convolutional neural network previously vetted on TESS and Kepler Bonus light curves.

This includes ~100 periods from bright giants that we believe are oscillation periods!
A Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of stars that our network inferred a period for. These stars cover nearly the entire parameter space of stellar evolutionary pathways. This figure shows a subset of star brightnesses over time (light curves), demonstrating that our neural network can accurately recover variability periods in 4 types of stars: Cepheid pulsators, spotted rotational variables, young stellar objects, and eclipsing binaries (of the Algol subtype).
September 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Oliver says fund NASA!
A mackerel tabby cat lays on top of a tote bag labeled with the logo of NASA.
June 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Oh ya, and this is the birthday boy! He is one year old 🥹
Kitten seated on a bag
April 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM