SCIX Exoplanet Search

A reproducible Kepler transit-recovery, signal-ranking, and independent-vetting pipeline.

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Scientific status

SXS reports no confirmed exoplanet discovery. Its independent review found 0 strong candidates, 1 weak candidate, and 19 likely false positives. Model scores prioritize review; they are not planetary probabilities.

What SXS does

SXS turns public mission data into an auditable evidence record. It acquires Kepler products and official catalog snapshots, cleans and detrends light curves, searches for periodic transit-like signals with Box Least Squares (BLS), ranks signals with target-grouped machine learning, and then performs an independent statistical and astrophysical audit.

flowchart LR
    A[(Kepler data)] --> B[Clean and detrend]
    B --> C[BLS period search]
    C --> D[RF / CNN ranking]
    D --> E[Candidate screen]
    E --> F[FAP and physical audit]
    F --> G[(Evidence record)]

Documentation map

If you want to...	Start here
Install and run a safe smoke test	Installation
Understand the complete research design	Methodology
Learn how data move through the system	Data pipeline
Run one or all workflows	Basic usage
Resume, isolate, or inspect expensive stages	Advanced usage
Understand candidate categories and FAP	Interpreting results
Look up every command and option	CLI reference
Find generated files and provenance records	Artifact reference
Cite or reuse the project	Citation and license

Verified research record

Evaluation	Result
Baseline BLS top-five recovery	15/36 (41.67%)
Baseline RF end-to-end recovery	12/36 (33.33%)
Scaled BLS top-five recovery	227/434 (52.30%)
RF v2 precision / recall	0.412 / 0.903 at threshold 0.221107
Bounded search	250 targets; 1,250 BLS peaks
Independent review	0 strong; 1 weak; 19 likely false positives

The weak signal is KIC 8300900-r1 at 5.090289 days, with empirical FAP 20/1,001 = 0.01998. It has no supporting TESS period match and remains unconfirmed.

Project identity

SXS was created by Rasya Andrean under Science Experimental Technologies. It was independently funded by Rasya Andrean and Urus Foundation.

Current revisions use the SXS Source-Available Commercial License 1.0. Review the license and commercial-use terms before redistribution or commercial use.