Give every planet with a distance a star, from the archive where the catalogue has none

After matching, 4 237 planets still had no star: their hosts are too faint for either Gaia
query (fainter than G 12 past 50 pc) or too far (past 250 pc), Kepler-186 at 177.6 pc among
them. fetchExoplanets now adds one star per such host from the archive's own figures, 3 277
of them, whenever the archive gives a position and a distance:

- position carried back from J2016, where the archive publishes it (741 of the 746 matched
  hosts moving over 100 mas/yr sit nearer their star carried back, a median 0.11" against 3.47"
  as published), and placed at sy_dist;
- magnitude in V (2 999 hosts), else Gaia G (13), the band the catalogue's Gaia stars are
  already in; 265 have neither, 128 KMT, 95 OGLE and 32 MOA microlensing hosts at a median
  6.2 kpc among them, and take the ETL's faint stand-in of 15;
- colour as B-V from the archive's B and V, else from st_teff through a new
  temperatureToColorIndex (Ballesteros 2012, inverted; the Sun's 5 772 K gives 0.65), else
  left to st_spectype;
- ids from 1 070 000 000, past Gaia's two ranges and under the 2^30 validateStars enforces;
  source "exoplanet-archive".

Hosts past 250 pc are included: 399 of the 3 277 are within 250 pc, 1 962 between 250 pc and
1 kpc, 916 beyond. The drawn budget still chooses what is drawn (70 000 of 455 608).

Planets with a star: 2 090 -> 6 327 of 6 354. The other 27 have no distance in either table
(Luhman 16 A, mu2 Sco, PSR B1620-26 among them). Systems in the Solar Neighbourhood readout:
1 450 -> 4 736. validateExoplanets now refuses a catalogue where fewer than 99.5 % of planets
have a host (measured 99.58 %); dropping the added stars fails it at 2 090, and dropping the
composite fill at 6 227. No added star sits within an arcsecond of a catalogue star
(validateMerge's twins stay at 23); 5 of the 399 within 250 pc have one within a minute of arc,
VHS J125601.92-125723.9 (archive 12.7 pc) 5.8" from a Gaia entry at 21.2 pc the likeliest
duplicate.

In the app, searching TRAPPIST-1 or Kepler-186 and picking the star enters a system with its
seven and five planets drawn. gzip -9: stars.bin 5 030 741 -> 5 067 864 B, stars-meta.bin 2 784 614 -> 2 804 064,
stars-index.json 4 003 584 -> 4 015 882, exoplanets.json 342 467 -> 446 532 (host parameters,
both commits).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-09-24 22:09:16 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 494fb5616b
commit 4c8e4a02f3
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import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
import { parseSpectralClass, SPECTRAL_CLASSES, spectralTypeToColorIndex } from './spectral';
import { parseSpectralClass, SPECTRAL_CLASSES, spectralTypeToColorIndex, temperatureToColorIndex } from './spectral';
describe('parseSpectralClass', () => {
it('reads a clean class and subclass', () => {
@@ -83,3 +83,20 @@ describe('spectralTypeToColorIndex', () => {
expect(spectralTypeToColorIndex('')).toBeNull();
});
});
describe('temperatureToColorIndex', () => {
it("puts the Sun's temperature at its own B-V and a cool dwarf redder", () => {
expect(temperatureToColorIndex(5772)).toBeCloseTo(0.65, 2);
expect(temperatureToColorIndex(3400)).toBeCloseTo(1.79, 2);
});
it('stays inside the range the spectral classes span', () => {
expect(temperatureToColorIndex(2566)).toBe(2);
expect(temperatureToColorIndex(50000)).toBe(-0.33);
});
it('has no answer for a temperature that is not one', () => {
expect(temperatureToColorIndex(0)).toBeNull();
expect(temperatureToColorIndex(Number.NaN)).toBeNull();
});
});
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return from + (to - from) * (subclass / 10);
}
/**
* B-V colour index for an effective temperature, for stars the Exoplanet Archive gives a
* temperature but no B magnitude. Inverts Ballesteros (2012), T = 4600 K · (1 / (0.92 (B-V) +
* 1.7) + 1 / (0.92 (B-V) + 0.62)), a blackbody fit good to a few per cent from A to early M: it
* puts the Sun's 5 772 K at 0.65, which is the Sun's own. Clamped to the range the class anchors
* above span, because the fit runs on past it — TRAPPIST-1's 2 566 K would come out at 2.7.
*/
export function temperatureToColorIndex(temperatureK: number): number | null {
if (!Number.isFinite(temperatureK) || temperatureK <= 0) {
return null;
}
// With x = 0.92 (B-V) and k = T / 4600 the fit is k x² + (2.32 k - 2) x + (1.054 k - 2.32) = 0,
// whose larger root is the physical one.
const k = temperatureK / 4600;
const b = 2.32 * k - 2;
const c = 1.054 * k - 2.32;
const x = (-b + Math.sqrt(b * b - 4 * k * c)) / (2 * k);
return Math.min(BEYOND_M, Math.max(COLOR_INDEX_ANCHORS.O, x / 0.92));
}
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export interface ExoplanetRecord {
id: string;
/**
* The host's star-catalogue id, the HYG or Gaia star it was matched to; null when none is.
* The host's star-catalogue id: a HYG or Gaia star it was matched to, or else a star the ETL
* added from the archive's own figures. Null only when the archive gives no position and
* distance to place one with.
*/
hostStarId: number | null;
hostStarName: string;
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