Classifying Exoplanets with a Gaussian Mixture Model

Recently, Odrzywolek and Rafelski have found three distinct categories of exoplanets, when they are classified based on density. We first carry out a similar classification of exoplanets according to their density using the Gaussian Mixture Model, followed by information theoretic criterion (AIC and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Soham Kulkarni, Shantanu Desai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Maynooth Academic Publishing 2018-06-01
Series:The Open Journal of Astrophysics
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Online Access:https://astro.theoj.org/article/5023-classifying-exoplanets-with-a-gaussian-mixture-model