Stop calling WASP-108 b imaged, and stop saying no map exists of an imaged exoplanet
48fd6fdtook the archive's ima_flag as it stood, so WASP-108 b's card said it had been imaged as a point of light beside its star. It is a transiting hot Jupiter (period 2.676 d, 0.04 AU out, 0.15 mas at 258.8 pc). Its flag comes from Bohn et al. 2020 (A&A 635, A73), a VLT/SPHERE survey of transiting planets' host stars, which imaged a 0.35 solar-mass companion 0.124" from WASP-108, not the planet. The imaged query now also asks for tran_flag=0. The archive flags exactly one transiting planet as imaged (queried today: WASP-108 b); with it left out the list has 101 names, the old 102 less that one, and still above the validator's floor of 95. The new URL is cached under its own name, and exoplanets.json, regenerated by the full ETL, changes by that one record's field and nothing else (checked record by record against HEAD). build.ts now fails if WASP-108 b is marked imaged. The count cannot see a false positive, and its record carries neither a period nor an axis, so no separation check could. Control: the full ETL on the old query (its cache still present) fails with "WASP-108 b is marked as imaged; it transits, and only a companion star beside it was imaged (Bohn et al. 2020)." The imaged sentence ended "and no map of it exists". Luhman 16 b, one of the 101 and a brown dwarf, was mapped by Doppler imaging (Crossfield et al. 2014, Nature 505, 654). It now reads "and no map of it is used here", which holds for all of them; the doc comment names Luhman 16 b. Control: the old sentence fails "says a directly imaged exoplanet was seen as a point of light" only (1 failed, 843 passed of 844). Live on :4301: WASP-108 b and Kepler-22 b read "no image of this world exists"; Luhman 16 b and HR 8799 b read the new sentence.48fd6fdmissed a third copy of the claim it corrected: the body page's comment still said every exoplanet gets a derived surface "since none has ever been imaged". It now says none has had its surface imaged, as planet-appearance.ts and the README do. A correction to 48fd6fd's message: HR 8799 b, c and d are Marois et al. 2008 (Science 322, 1348), and e is Marois et al. 2010 (Nature 468, 1080), not "b to e (Marois et al. 2008)". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -41,11 +41,14 @@ const TAP_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=${TAP_QUERY}`;
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// silently wrong rather than visibly broken.
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const CACHE_FILE = `exoplanet-archive-ps-${createHash('sha1').update(TAP_URL).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
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// The planets the archive flags as detected by imaging (`ima_flag`): 102 of them in September 2026,
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// The planets the archive flags as detected by imaging (`ima_flag`): 101 of them in September 2026,
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// HR 8799's four and 51 Eri b among them, and bet Pic c and eps Ind A b, found by radial velocity
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// and imaged since. Asked for on its own, so adding it did not refetch the table above and move
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// every other planet to a newer snapshot.
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const IMAGED_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=select+pl_name+from+ps+where+default_flag=1+and+ima_flag=1+order+by+pl_name&format=csv`;
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// every other planet to a newer snapshot. A transiting planet is left out: the one flagged,
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// WASP-108 b, takes its flag from Bohn et al. 2020, a VLT/SPHERE survey of transiting planets' host
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// stars that imaged a 0.35 solar-mass companion 0.124" from its star. The planet goes round in 2.68
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// days, 0.04 AU out, 0.15 mas at its 259 pc, and no imager has resolved it.
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const IMAGED_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=select+pl_name+from+ps+where+default_flag=1+and+ima_flag=1+and+tran_flag=0+order+by+pl_name&format=csv`;
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const IMAGED_CACHE_FILE = `exoplanet-archive-imaged-${createHash('sha1').update(IMAGED_URL).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
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/**
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