Astronomy:Exoplanet Data Explorer
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Type of site | Astronomy |
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| Created by | Jason T. Wright, Geoff Marcy, and the California Planet Survey consortium. Website design and maintenance by Onsi Fakhouri |
| Website | http://exoplanets.org |
| Current status | Active |
The Exoplanet Data Explorer / Exoplanet Orbit Database is a database listing extrasolar planets up to 24 Jupiter masses.[1][2]
Overview
- "We have retained the generous upper mass limit of 24 Jupiter masses in our definition of a “planet”, for the same reasons as in the Catalog: at the moment, any mass limit is arbitrary and will serve little practical function both because of the sin i ambiguity in radial velocity masses and because of the lack of physical motivation.
- The 13 Jupiter-mass distinction by the IAU Working Group is physically unmotivated for planets with rocky cores, and observationally problematic due to the sin i ambiguity. A useful theoretical and rhetorical distinction is to segregate brown dwarfs from planets by their formation mechanism, but such a distinction is of little utility observationally."[1]
The database was updated to include new exoplanets and possible exoplanets, using data from other archives such as the Astrophysics Data System, arXiv and the NASA Exoplanet Archive.[3] The database stopped being updated in mid-2018 and is no longer actively maintained.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Exoplanet Orbit Database, Jason T Wright, Onsi Fakhouri, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Eunkyu Han, Ying Feng, John Asher Johnson, Andrew W. Howard, Jeff A. Valenti, Jay Anderson, Nikolai Piskunov
- ↑ Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets, R. P. Butler, J. T. Wright, G. W. Marcy, D. A Fischer, S. S. Vogt, C. G. Tinney, H. R. A. Jones, B. D. Carter, J. A. Johnson, C. McCarthy, A. J. Penny, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 646, Number 1, 2006
- ↑ Feng, Ying; Han, E.; Fakhouri, O.; Ford, E.B. (January 2013). "New Features of the Exoplanet Orbit Database at Exoplanets.org". American Astronomical Society. Bibcode: 2013AAS...22134003F. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258738246_New_Features_of_the_Exoplanet_Orbit_Database_at_Exoplanetsorg.
- ↑ "Exoplanet Orbit Database | Exoplanet Data Explorer". http://exoplanets.org/.
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