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2025MNRAS.539..297S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 539, 297-306 (2025/May-1)

CETRA: a fast, sensitive exoplanet transit detection algorithm implemented for GPUs.

SMITH L.C., AHMED S., DE ANGELI F., BURGESS P.W., BUSSO G., FORD D.C., HARRISON D.L., HODGKIN S.T., IRWIN J.M., RIXON G.T. and WALTON N.A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the Cambridge Exoplanet Transit Recovery Algorithm (CETRA), a fast and sensitive transit detection algorithm, optimized for GPUs. CETRA separates the task into a search for transit signals across linear time space, followed by a phase-folding of the former to enable a periodic signal search, using a physically motivated transit model to improve detection sensitivity. It outperforms traditional methods like Box Least Squares and Transit Least Squares in both sensitivity and speed. Tests on synthetic light curves demonstrate that CETRA can identify at least 20 per cent more low-SNR transits than Transit Least Squares in the same data, particularly those of long period planets. It is also shown to be up to a few orders of magnitude faster for high cadence light curves, enabling rapid large-scale searches. Through application of CETRA to Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite short cadence data, we recover the three planets in the HD 101581 system with improved significance. In particular, the transit signal of the previously unvalidated planet TOI-6276.03 is enhanced from ${\rm SNR}=7.9$ to ${\rm SNR}=16.0$, which means it may now meet the criteria for statistical validation. CETRA's speed and sensitivity make it well-suited for current and future exoplanet surveys, particularly in the search for Earth analogues. Our implementation of this algorithm uses NVIDIA's CUDA platform and requires an NVIDIA GPU, it is open-source and available from GitHub and PyPI.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): software: data analysis - exoplanets - planetary systems

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