Software squeezes more data out of Webb Telescope for imaging exoplanets
Summary
Ars Technica reports on FLIP, a physics-based AI-assisted method that optimizes a JWST/NIRCam model to reduce imaging noise and improve exoplanet detection. The gradient-descent optimization boosts the signal-to-noise ratio and can reveal planets that were previously difficult to image, with tests on several stars including HIP 65426 and 51 Eridani.