Jeanne Davoult has been working in the Department of Extrasolar Planets and Atmospheres at the Institute of Space Research since the beginning of the year. As part of her doctoral thesis at the University of Bern, she developed a machine learning model that can predict potential planetary systems with Earth-like planets.
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A machine learning model is a statistical tool that is trained with data to recognise certain patterns and make predictions. Jeanne Davoult explains: ‘Our model is based on an algorithm that I developed and that has been trained to recognise and classify planetary systems that host Earth-like planets.’ The model builds on previous studies to derive a correlation between the presence or absence of an Earth-like planet and the properties of its planetary system.
