Find the hosts the catalogue already holds, and name them after their planets' star

The archive's default-parameter rows leave sy_dist blank for 100 planets, TRAPPIST-1's seven
among them, so the matcher could not place a host the catalogue had drawn since the Gaia
nearby query (Gaia DR3 2635476908753563008, 12.47 pc). fetchExoplanets now also reads the
Planetary Systems Composite table (pscomppars) and fills a default row's blank host cells from
it. Only host columns: a composite row takes each column from its own reference, so orbits
still come from the default row alone, one fit per planet. Where both tables give a distance or
a position they agree on all 6 225 and 6 352 rows.

Three hosts the catalogue holds by name failed the distance ratio test because the archive's
sy_dist, from TICv8, contradicts its own parallax: Lalande 21185 (GJ 411) 5.68 pc against
392 mas, Luyten's Star (GJ 273) 5.92 against 263 mas, Struve 2398 B (Gl 725 B) 6.84 against
285 mas. resolveHostStarId now takes the archive's parallax (sy_plx) as a second distance the
ratio test accepts. It is a second chance, not a replacement: 47 of 5 959 systems disagree past
the tolerance, and for faint far hosts the inverse parallax is the worse figure (K2-238: 538 pc
by sy_dist, 6 779 by parallax).

Planets on a catalogue star: 2 071 -> 2 090 of 6 354. The 19 gained are TRAPPIST-1 (7),
GJ 273 (2), GJ 411 (2), Gl 725 B, HD 62509 (Pollux), K2-65, TOI-2267 A and B, and two
brown-dwarf hosts, 2MASS J02192210-3925225 and DENIS-P J082303.1-491201. No planet lost or
changed its host.

A matched host whose catalogue name is a bare Gaia designation now takes the archive's host
name, so search finds TRAPPIST-1, Teegarden's Star, TOI-700, LP 791-18 and K2-18: 575 stars
renamed. validateExoplanets refuses a host that is still only a designation, and the star
assets are rewritten after the exoplanets for that reason; stars.bin and stars-meta.bin are
unchanged. TOI-2267 A and B both land on one Gaia entry, which takes the name TOI-2267 A.

Each planet also carries its host's radius, effective temperature and luminosity (10^st_lum),
and a mass for 6 344 planets instead of 5 474, from the default row where it gives one and the
composite table otherwise, for the star-physics step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
import { buildStarNameIndex, resolveHostStarId } from '../../src/app/shared/astro/host-star-matching';
import { ExoplanetRecord } from '../../src/app/shared/models/exoplanet.model';
import { isDesignation } from '../../src/app/shared/models/star-catalog';
import { StarRecord } from '../../src/app/shared/models/star.model';
import { fetchStars } from './fetchStars';
import { fetchStars, writeStarAssets } from './fetchStars';
import { parseCsvObjects, parseOptionalNumber } from './lib/csv';
import { fetchTextCached } from './lib/http';
import { dataPath, ensureDataDir } from './lib/paths';
@@ -42,34 +43,80 @@ const TAP_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=${TAP_QUERY}`;
const CACHE_FILE = `exoplanet-archive-ps-${createHash('sha1').update(TAP_URL).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
/**
* Downloads confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (`Planetary Systems` TAP
* table), cross-references each host star to the HYG index, and writes `exoplanets.json`.
* The host's columns from the Planetary Systems Composite table, for the cells a planet's
* default row leaves blank and for the columns that query does not ask for.
*
* The default rows are one reference each, which is what keeps a planet's orbit coherent: its
* period, semi-major axis, eccentricity and periastron come from one fit. A composite row takes
* each column from wherever it is best measured, so an orbit read from it could pair one paper's
* eccentricity with another's argument of periastron; none of its orbital columns are asked for.
* Its system columns equal the default rows' wherever both are given (6 225 distances, 6 352
* positions, none different). What it adds is the 100 distances the default rows leave blank,
* TRAPPIST-1's seven among them, 870 host masses, and the parallax, photometry and stellar
* parameters below — each of which may come from a different reference.
*/
export async function fetchExoplanets(stars?: StarRecord[]): Promise<ExoplanetRecord[]> {
const COMPOSITE_COLUMNS = [
'pl_name',
'ra',
'dec',
'sy_dist',
'sy_plx',
'sy_pmra',
'sy_pmdec',
'sy_bmag',
'sy_vmag',
'sy_gaiamag',
'st_spectype',
'st_teff',
'st_rad',
'st_mass',
'st_lum'
].join(',');
// pl_name is unique here too, one row per planet.
const COMPOSITE_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=select+${COMPOSITE_COLUMNS}+from+pscomppars+order+by+pl_name&format=csv`;
const COMPOSITE_CACHE_FILE = `exoplanet-archive-pscomppars-${createHash('sha1').update(COMPOSITE_URL).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
/**
* Downloads confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (`Planetary Systems` TAP
* table), cross-references each host star to the star catalogue, and writes `exoplanets.json`
* together with the star assets, whose Gaia designations take their host's name. Returns both.
*/
export async function fetchExoplanets(stars?: StarRecord[]): Promise<{ exoplanets: ExoplanetRecord[]; stars: StarRecord[] }> {
console.log('Fetching confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive...');
const knownStars = stars ?? (await fetchStars());
const nameIndex = buildStarNameIndex(knownStars);
const knownById = new Map(knownStars.map((star) => [star.id, star]));
const csv = await fetchTextCached(TAP_URL, CACHE_FILE);
const rows = parseCsvObjects(csv);
const composite = new Map(parseCsvObjects(await fetchTextCached(COMPOSITE_URL, COMPOSITE_CACHE_FILE)).map((row) => [row['pl_name'], row]));
let matched = 0;
// Catalogue stars known only by their Gaia designation, which take the archive's host name —
// the only way "TRAPPIST-1" or "Teegarden's Star" can be found by search.
const renamed = new Map<number, string>();
const exoplanets: ExoplanetRecord[] = rows.map((row, index) => {
const compositeRow = composite.get(row['pl_name']);
// `parseOptionalNumber`, not `Number`: a blank cell would otherwise become 0, which is a
// finite, plausible-looking coordinate rather than the "not measured" it actually means.
const raDeg = parseOptionalNumber(row['ra']) ?? Number.NaN;
const decDeg = parseOptionalNumber(row['dec']) ?? Number.NaN;
const distancePc = parseOptionalNumber(row['sy_dist']) ?? Number.NaN;
const pmRaMasPerYear = parseOptionalNumber(row['sy_pmra']);
const pmDecMasPerYear = parseOptionalNumber(row['sy_pmdec']);
const host = (column: string) => parseOptionalNumber(row[column] || compositeRow?.[column]);
const raDeg = host('ra') ?? Number.NaN;
const decDeg = host('dec') ?? Number.NaN;
const distancePc = host('sy_dist') ?? Number.NaN;
const pmRaMasPerYear = host('sy_pmra');
const pmDecMasPerYear = host('sy_pmdec');
const hostStarId = resolveHostStarId(
{ hostname: row['hostname'], raDeg, decDeg, distancePc, pmRaMasPerYear, pmDecMasPerYear },
{ hostname: row['hostname'], raDeg, decDeg, distancePc, pmRaMasPerYear, pmDecMasPerYear, parallaxMas: host('sy_plx') },
knownStars,
nameIndex
);
if (hostStarId !== null) {
matched++;
const star = knownById.get(hostStarId);
if (star?.source === 'gaia' && isDesignation(star) && !renamed.has(hostStarId)) {
renamed.set(hostStarId, row['hostname']);
}
}
return {
@@ -84,12 +131,16 @@ export async function fetchExoplanets(stars?: StarRecord[]): Promise<ExoplanetRe
// determines the host's gravitational parameter, so keeping it is the difference between
// propagating a planet at its real rate and pretending every host is the Sun.
periodDays: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orbper']),
hostStarMassSolar: parseOptionalNumber(row['st_mass']),
hostStarMassSolar: host('st_mass'),
hostStarRadiusSolar: host('st_rad'),
hostStarTemperatureK: host('st_teff'),
// Published as log10(L/L☉).
hostStarLuminositySolar: ((logLuminosity) => (logLuminosity === undefined ? undefined : 10 ** logLuminosity))(host('st_lum')),
// Kept so the cross-reference can be redone without the archive; see the record's own
// documentation. Undefined rather than NaN, which JSON cannot represent.
hostRaDeg: parseOptionalNumber(row['ra']),
hostDecDeg: parseOptionalNumber(row['dec']),
hostDistancePc: parseOptionalNumber(row['sy_dist']),
hostRaDeg: host('ra'),
hostDecDeg: host('dec'),
hostDistancePc: host('sy_dist'),
hostPmRaMasPerYear: pmRaMasPerYear,
hostPmDecMasPerYear: pmDecMasPerYear,
orbit: {
@@ -101,10 +152,13 @@ export async function fetchExoplanets(stars?: StarRecord[]): Promise<ExoplanetRe
};
});
const allStars = knownStars.map((star) => (renamed.has(star.id) ? { ...star, name: renamed.get(star.id)! } : star));
writeStarAssets(allStars);
ensureDataDir();
writeFileSync(dataPath('exoplanets.json'), JSON.stringify(exoplanets));
console.log(` wrote ${exoplanets.length} exoplanets (${matched} cross-referenced to a HYG host star).`);
return exoplanets;
console.log(` wrote ${exoplanets.length} exoplanets (${matched} on a catalogue star, ${renamed.size} Gaia designations named after their host).`);
return { exoplanets, stars: allStars };
}
if (require.main === module) {