import { statSync } from 'node:fs'; import { BodyRecord } from '../../src/app/shared/models/body.model'; import { DeepSkyRecord } from '../../src/app/shared/models/deepsky.model'; import { ExoplanetRecord } from '../../src/app/shared/models/exoplanet.model'; import { StarRecord, SUN_STAR_ID } from '../../src/app/shared/models/star.model'; import { fetchDeepSky } from './fetchDeepSky'; import { fetchExoplanets } from './fetchExoplanets'; import { fetchSolarSystem } from './fetchSolarSystem'; import { BYTES_PER_STAR_META, BYTES_PER_STAR_POSITION, decodeStarCatalog, encodeStarCatalog, isDesignation } from '../../src/app/shared/models/star-catalog'; import { fetchStars, glieseGaiaDesignations } from './fetchStars'; import { ARCHIVE_EPOCH, archiveStarId, CATALOGUE_EPOCH } from '../../src/app/shared/astro/host-star-matching'; import { propagateProperMotion, raDegDecDistanceToXyz } from '../../src/app/shared/astro/coordinates'; import { describeSources } from './sources/registry'; import { dataPath } from './lib/paths'; class ValidationError extends Error {} function assertCondition(condition: boolean, message: string): void { if (!condition) { throw new ValidationError(message); } } /** * Stars whose magnitude is a stand-in, and distances published without an error. Measured 309 and * 439: the 44 Gaia sources with no G and the 265 archive hosts with neither V nor G; the 357 Gliese * distances (no Hipparcos parallax behind them) and 82 archive hosts the archive gives no error * for. Losing either field loses it for hundreds of thousands of stars. */ const MAX_STARS_WITHOUT_BAND = 1_000; const MAX_STARS_WITHOUT_DISTANCE_ERROR = 1_000; /** * What the errors themselves come to, which the two counts above cannot see: Gaia's parallax_error * stored in milliarcseconds rather than over the parallax still encodes, decodes and passes both. * Measured: the median relative error of the stars at Gaia's distance is 0.33 %, and 1 109 parallax * distances (0.24 % of the stars) have one of a fifth or more, which the card prints as a range. * The mistake above gives 1.92 % and 17 689. */ const MAX_MEDIAN_GAIA_DISTANCE_ERROR = 0.01; const MAX_RANGED_DISTANCE_SHARE = 0.01; /** * HYG stars that keep their own row but sit at Gaia's distance, which fetchStars flags for the card * to say "HYG, Gaia DR3 distance". Measured 8 129; the flag dropped leaves none, and nothing else * notices — the other 62 002 carry it from their Gaia row. */ const MIN_HYG_STARS_AT_GAIA_DISTANCE = 6_000; /** * The other half of placing a star at its more precise distance (8c3a860): a HYG star folded into * its Gaia entry that keeps its Hipparcos distance, which Gaia saturates on. Measured 384, none * before 8c3a860, and 148 with fetchStars handing combine Gaia's error with the Hipparcos distance, * where the two errors tie and Gaia's distance wins — which the floor above cannot see, since that * raises its count to 8 129. The two stars below are what that looks like: Tarazed went back to * Gaia's 178.9 pc, and Eta Leo kept its 389 pc but read "±17 %, HYG, Gaia DR3 distance". */ const MIN_GAIA_STARS_AT_HIPPARCOS_DISTANCE = 300; const HIPPARCOS_PLACED_STARS = [ { id: 96970, name: 'Tarazed', distancePc: 121.07 }, { id: 49441, name: 'Eta Leo', distancePc: 389.11 } ]; /** Their distances' errors, 2.1 % and 6.3 %, against Gaia's 6.9 % and 17 %. */ const MAX_HIPPARCOS_PLACED_ERROR = 0.065; /** * Archive hosts whose colour is read off their temperature, which the card marks "from its * temperature" (23547de). Measured 54; the flag's write dropped from fetchExoplanets leaves none, * and every other check passes, since the round trip compares the flag with itself. */ const MIN_COLOURS_FROM_TEMPERATURE = 40; /** * Archive stars numbered after their host's name (62f81f2), so a refresh keeps each one's id and a * bookmark its star. Measured: 3 276 of the 3 277 take the id their name hashes to, one having * probed past a taken one. Numbered in arrival order, as before, none do, and nothing else fails. */ const MAX_ARCHIVE_IDS_OFF_THEIR_NAME = 5; /** * Every star the naked eye sees, kept at any distance (c64eea0): measured 8 898 of V 6.5 or * brighter, 1 663 of them past 250 pc. With no magnitude handed to placementDistancePc, 7 379 are * left and Rigel, Deneb and Alnilam are gone — and every other check passed, the HYG survivors * going down rather than up. HD 197770 and HD 45291 are two of the twelve only Gaia's bright * sources place, by position; without that lookup they are gone and the count drops by twelve, * which the floor alone would not see. */ const MIN_NAKED_EYE_STARS = 8_800; const NAKED_EYE_MAGNITUDE_V = 6.5; const REQUIRED_NAKED_EYE_STARS = ['Rigel', 'Deneb', 'Alnilam', 'HD 197770', 'HD 45291']; function validateStars(stars: StarRecord[]): void { assertCondition(stars.length > 0, 'No stars were produced.'); const ids = new Set(); for (const star of stars) { assertCondition(Number.isFinite(star.id), `Star has a non-numeric id: ${JSON.stringify(star)}`); // Under 2^30, which V8 keeps unboxed; past it every id is a heap number, and the app's boot // task grew by 230 ms when the nearby Gaia stars were numbered from 2 000 000 000. assertCondition(star.id >= 0 && star.id < 2 ** 30, `Star ${star.id} has an id outside 0 to 2^30.`); assertCondition(!ids.has(star.id), `Duplicate star id: ${star.id}`); ids.add(star.id); assertCondition(!!star.name, `Star ${star.id} has no name.`); assertCondition([star.x, star.y, star.z].every(Number.isFinite), `Star ${star.id} has a non-finite position.`); } const positionBytes = statSync(dataPath('stars.bin')).size; assertCondition(positionBytes === stars.length * BYTES_PER_STAR_POSITION, `stars.bin size (${positionBytes}) does not match ${stars.length} stars.`); const metaBytes = statSync(dataPath('stars-meta.bin')).size; assertCondition(metaBytes === stars.length * BYTES_PER_STAR_META, `stars-meta.bin size (${metaBytes}) does not match ${stars.length} stars.`); // Round-trips the written assets back through the decoder the app uses, so a format change // that only half-lands fails here rather than as a silently wrong star map. const { index, positions, meta } = encodeStarCatalog(stars); const decoded = decodeStarCatalog(index, positions, meta); assertCondition(decoded.length === stars.length, `Star catalogue round-trip lost records: ${decoded.length} of ${stars.length}.`); for (let i = 0; i < stars.length; i++) { assertCondition(decoded[i].id === stars[i].id && decoded[i].name === stars[i].name, `Star catalogue round-trip altered record ${i}.`); assertCondition(decoded[i].spectralType === stars[i].spectralType, `Star catalogue round-trip lost the spectral type of star ${stars[i].id}.`); assertCondition(decoded[i].colorIndex === null === (stars[i].colorIndex === null), `Star catalogue round-trip changed whether star ${stars[i].id} has a colour index.`); assertCondition( decoded[i].magnitudeBand === stars[i].magnitudeBand && decoded[i].colorSystem === stars[i].colorSystem && decoded[i].distanceFromGaia === !!stars[i].distanceFromGaia && decoded[i].colorFromTemperature === !!stars[i].colorFromTemperature, `Star catalogue round-trip changed the photometry of star ${stars[i].id}.` ); // Stored as its square root in 255ths, up to 100 %; see `star-catalog.ts`. const error = stars[i].distanceError; assertCondition( error === undefined ? decoded[i].distanceError === undefined : Math.abs(Math.sqrt(decoded[i].distanceError!) - Math.sqrt(Math.min(1, error))) <= 0.5 / 255 + 1e-9, `Star catalogue round-trip changed the distance error of star ${stars[i].id}.` ); } // What each star says it was measured in. A band or an error dropped on the way still encodes, // decodes and draws; it shows only as a card reading "Not measured" for a star that was. const withoutBand = stars.filter((star) => star.magnitudeBand === undefined).length; assertCondition(withoutBand <= MAX_STARS_WITHOUT_BAND, `${withoutBand} stars have no magnitude band (at most ${MAX_STARS_WITHOUT_BAND} expected) — the band is being lost.`); const withoutError = stars.filter((star) => star.id !== SUN_STAR_ID && star.distanceError === undefined).length; assertCondition( withoutError <= MAX_STARS_WITHOUT_DISTANCE_ERROR, `${withoutError} stars have no distance error (at most ${MAX_STARS_WITHOUT_DISTANCE_ERROR} expected) — the parallax errors are being lost.` ); console.log(` ${withoutBand} stars with a stand-in magnitude; ${withoutError} distances without a published error.`); const gaiaErrors = stars .filter((star) => star.distanceFromGaia && star.distanceError !== undefined) .map((star) => star.distanceError!) .sort((a, b) => a - b); const medianGaiaError = gaiaErrors[Math.floor(gaiaErrors.length / 2)] ?? 0; assertCondition( medianGaiaError <= MAX_MEDIAN_GAIA_DISTANCE_ERROR, `The median error of Gaia's distances is ${(medianGaiaError * 100).toFixed(2)} % (at most ${MAX_MEDIAN_GAIA_DISTANCE_ERROR * 100} % expected) — the parallax errors are no longer relative.` ); // The archive's errors are on the distance and never printed as a range; see formatDistance. const ranged = stars.filter((star) => star.source !== 'exoplanet-archive' && (star.distanceError ?? 0) >= 0.2).length; assertCondition( ranged <= stars.length * MAX_RANGED_DISTANCE_SHARE, `${ranged} parallax distances have an error of a fifth or more (at most ${MAX_RANGED_DISTANCE_SHARE * 100} % of stars expected).` ); const hygAtGaiaDistance = stars.filter((star) => star.source === 'hyg' && star.distanceFromGaia).length; assertCondition( hygAtGaiaDistance >= MIN_HYG_STARS_AT_GAIA_DISTANCE, `Only ${hygAtGaiaDistance} HYG stars are flagged at Gaia's distance (at least ${MIN_HYG_STARS_AT_GAIA_DISTANCE} expected) — fetchStars no longer says whose parallax it placed them by.` ); console.log( ` Gaia distances a median ${(medianGaiaError * 100).toFixed(2)} % uncertain; ${ranged} parallax distances ranged; ${hygAtGaiaDistance} HYG stars at Gaia's distance.` ); const nakedEye = stars.filter((star) => star.magnitudeBand === 'V' && star.magnitude <= NAKED_EYE_MAGNITUDE_V && star.id !== SUN_STAR_ID).length; assertCondition( nakedEye >= MIN_NAKED_EYE_STARS, `Only ${nakedEye} stars of V ${NAKED_EYE_MAGNITUDE_V} or brighter (at least ${MIN_NAKED_EYE_STARS} expected) — naked-eye stars are no longer kept at any distance.` ); for (const name of REQUIRED_NAKED_EYE_STARS) { assertCondition(stars.some((star) => star.name === name), `${name} is missing — naked-eye stars are no longer kept wherever a survey places them.`); } console.log(` ${nakedEye} naked-eye stars.`); const gaiaAtHipparcosDistance = stars.filter((star) => star.source === 'gaia' && star.magnitudeBand === 'V' && !star.distanceFromGaia).length; assertCondition( gaiaAtHipparcosDistance >= MIN_GAIA_STARS_AT_HIPPARCOS_DISTANCE, `Only ${gaiaAtHipparcosDistance} HYG stars folded into Gaia keep their Hipparcos distance (at least ${MIN_GAIA_STARS_AT_HIPPARCOS_DISTANCE} expected) — the more precise distance no longer wins.` ); for (const expected of HIPPARCOS_PLACED_STARS) { const star = stars.find((candidate) => candidate.id === expected.id); const distancePc = star && Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z); assertCondition( star !== undefined && Math.abs(distancePc! / expected.distancePc - 1) < 0.01 && !star.distanceFromGaia && (star.distanceError ?? 1) < MAX_HIPPARCOS_PLACED_ERROR, `${expected.name} is at ${distancePc?.toFixed(1)} pc, error ${star?.distanceError}, Gaia's: ${star?.distanceFromGaia} — expected its Hipparcos ${expected.distancePc} pc and error.` ); } const coloursFromTemperature = stars.filter((star) => star.colorFromTemperature).length; assertCondition( coloursFromTemperature >= MIN_COLOURS_FROM_TEMPERATURE, `Only ${coloursFromTemperature} colours are marked as read off a temperature (at least ${MIN_COLOURS_FROM_TEMPERATURE} expected) — fetchExoplanets no longer says so.` ); const archiveStars = stars.filter((star) => star.source === 'exoplanet-archive'); const offTheirName = archiveStars.filter((star) => star.id !== archiveStarId(star.name, new Set())).length; assertCondition( offTheirName <= MAX_ARCHIVE_IDS_OFF_THEIR_NAME, `${offTheirName} of the ${archiveStars.length} archive stars have an id other than their name's (at most ${MAX_ARCHIVE_IDS_OFF_THEIR_NAME} expected) — a refresh would renumber them.` ); console.log( ` ${gaiaAtHipparcosDistance} Gaia stars at their Hipparcos distance; ${coloursFromTemperature} colours from a temperature; ${offTheirName} archive ids off their name.` ); // Hipparcos's mark on a classification it does not print in full reached the card as "Spectral // type A0m...", for Sirius and 2 126 other stars, which reads as text the app cut short. const dotted = stars.filter((star) => star.spectralType.endsWith('...')).length; assertCondition(dotted === 0, `${dotted} spectral types end in "..." — fetchStars no longer trims Hipparcos's mark from them.`); } /** * What a good merge looks like, in two numbers the unit suite cannot see. * * The catalogues are regenerated by a scheduled job that pushes straight to `main` once the unit * tests and a production build pass — and both passed, for weeks, on a catalogue carrying 23 000 * stars twice: the suite tests code against fixtures, and no fixture is 400 000 real stars. The * two ways the merge has actually failed both show up here. * * A star kept twice leaves its two entries near each other on the sky, from *different* sources — * one catalogue does not list a star twice. Under an arcsecond that is never two stars at this * depth, so every such pair is a miss. Twenty-three survive today; the nineteen first counted were * all a second HYG row wanting a Gaia entry that already absorbed one (Gliese lists some doubles * twice), and the merge that trusted a Hipparcos parallax over direction left 1 112. * * The other failure leaves no close pair at all, because proper motion had already carried the * two entries tens of arcseconds apart — the 2026-08-24 refresh, where HYG sat at epoch 2000.0 * and Gaia at J2016.0. What it does leave is HYG rows that found no counterpart: 36 056 of them * against the 11 554 today, and no counterpart was possible for most of those. 8 301 of them are * every star in the published catalogue beyond 250 pc, which the main query never downloads: 6 835 * that Gaia's parallax puts past `ETL_GAIA_DISTANCE_PC` while Hipparcos put them inside * `ETL_STAR_DISTANCE_PC`, and 1 466 naked-eye stars kept at any distance. The other 3 252 are what * Gaia genuinely lacks: 1 194 brighter than V 8, which it saturates on or measures poorly, 1 832 * between 8 and 12, and 226 fainter, 184 of them Gliese stars within 50 pc that neither of its * queries holds. So the headroom left to the ceiling tracks the gap between those two cutoffs as * much as Gaia's completeness. * * This bounds a merge that went wrong, and — loosely — a Gaia download that came back short: a * truncated answer leaves the HYG rows whose counterpart it dropped without one, so survivors go * *up*, not down. Measured on the main query when it was the only one, with 10 886 survivors * against today's 11 554: 11 004 at nine tenths of its rows, 12 711 at half, 16 258 at a third. So * this ceiling only catches a deep truncation, and `fetchGaiaStars` catches the shallower ones * with a row floor on each query. */ const MAX_UNMERGED_TWINS = 100; /** * Gliese-only rows beside the Gaia entry SIMBAD names as the same star, which no geometry saw: * 49 before `foldByIdentity`, two of them false stars inside 10 pc (GJ 2097 at 6.41 pc and GJ 4285 * at 6.80, which Gaia has at 24.47 and 28.25). The twin count above does not see them, being up to * minutes of arc apart. */ const MAX_GLIESE_ROWS_BESIDE_THEIR_GAIA_SOURCE = 0; const MAX_HYG_SURVIVORS = 15_000; const TWIN_TOLERANCE_RAD = (1 / 3600) * (Math.PI / 180); function validateMerge(stars: StarRecord[], gaiaDesignationById: ReadonlyMap): void { // Checked first and on its own: an unreachable Gaia is skipped rather than thrown, and would // otherwise surface below as "68 000 HYG stars found no counterpart" — true, and no help. assertCondition( stars.some((star) => star.source === 'gaia'), 'Gaia DR3 contributed no stars — the archive was unreachable or returned nothing, and a catalogue without it is not one to publish.' ); const survivors = stars.filter((star) => star.source === 'hyg').length; assertCondition( survivors <= MAX_HYG_SURVIVORS, `${survivors} HYG stars found no Gaia counterpart (at most ${MAX_HYG_SURVIVORS} expected) — the two catalogues are not being matched.` ); // Sorted by declination, so each star is only compared against the handful sharing its // parallel — an arcsecond of declination holds one or two of 400 000 stars. const byDec = stars .map((star) => { const distance = Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z); return { star, distance, dec: distance === 0 ? 0 : Math.asin(Math.max(-1, Math.min(1, star.z / distance))) }; }) .filter((entry) => entry.distance > 0) .sort((a, b) => a.dec - b.dec); const cosTolerance = Math.cos(TWIN_TOLERANCE_RAD); let twins = 0; let example = ''; for (let i = 0; i < byDec.length; i++) { const a = byDec[i]; for (let j = i + 1; j < byDec.length && byDec[j].dec - a.dec <= TWIN_TOLERANCE_RAD; j++) { const b = byDec[j]; if (a.star.source === b.star.source) { continue; } const cosine = (a.star.x * b.star.x + a.star.y * b.star.y + a.star.z * b.star.z) / (a.distance * b.distance); if (cosine >= cosTolerance) { twins++; example ||= `${a.star.name} (${a.star.source}) and ${b.star.name} (${b.star.source})`; } } } assertCondition( twins <= MAX_UNMERGED_TWINS, `${twins} stars from different catalogues sit within an arcsecond of each other (at most ${MAX_UNMERGED_TWINS} expected), starting with ${example} — the merge is keeping the same star twice.` ); const bare = new Set(stars.filter((star) => star.source === 'gaia' && isDesignation(star)).map((star) => star.name)); const beside = stars.filter((star) => star.source === 'hyg' && star.distanceError === undefined && bare.has(gaiaDesignationById.get(star.id) ?? '')); assertCondition( beside.length <= MAX_GLIESE_ROWS_BESIDE_THEIR_GAIA_SOURCE, `${beside.length} Gliese stars are drawn beside the Gaia source SIMBAD names them as, starting with ${beside[0]?.name} — the identity fold is not being made.` ); console.log(` ${survivors} HYG stars have no Gaia counterpart; ${twins} unmerged cross-catalogue pairs within an arcsecond; ${beside.length} Gliese stars beside their own Gaia source.`); } function validateBodies(bodies: BodyRecord[]): void { assertCondition(bodies.length > 0, 'No solar-system bodies were produced.'); const ids = new Set(bodies.map((body) => body.id)); assertCondition(ids.size === bodies.length, 'Duplicate body ids were found.'); for (const body of bodies) { const orbitValues = Object.values(body.orbit); assertCondition(orbitValues.every(Number.isFinite), `Body ${body.id} has non-finite orbital elements.`); if (body.kind === 'moon') { assertCondition(!!body.parentBodyId && ids.has(body.parentBodyId), `Moon ${body.id} has no valid parentBodyId.`); } } const planetCount = bodies.filter((body) => body.kind === 'planet').length; assertCondition(planetCount === 8, `Expected 8 planets, found ${planetCount}.`); } /** * The share of planets that must have a star on the map: 6 327 of 6 354 did when the ETL began * adding the hosts the catalogue lacks from the archive's own figures, up from 2 071. The other * 27 have no distance in either archive table, so nothing can place them; the floor leaves room * for a few more of those, not for the matching or the additions to stop working. */ const MIN_HOSTED_SHARE = 0.995; /** * The share of planets whose host's radius and temperature the archive gives, which is what * starSurfaceOf draws a host with before deriving one. Measured 6 030 and 6 054 of 6 354 (0.95). * Both come from the composite table only; a column lost on the way leaves every host derived — * Proxima 0.105 R☉ instead of 0.141 — and nothing else fails. */ const MIN_HOST_SURFACE_SHARE = 0.9; /** * How far, in milliarcseconds, a star placed from the archive may sit from its planets' published * position carried from the archive's epoch to the catalogue's. Measured 0.0001 at most, rounding; * carried from J2016 instead, TOI-2406 moves 203 mas and 2 287 archive stars more than 1. */ const MAX_ARCHIVE_EPOCH_OFFSET_MAS = 1; function validateExoplanets(exoplanets: ExoplanetRecord[], stars: StarRecord[]): void { assertCondition(exoplanets.length > 0, 'No exoplanets were produced.'); const starsById = new Map(stars.map((star) => [star.id, star])); let crossReferenced = 0; for (const exoplanet of exoplanets) { assertCondition(!!exoplanet.name, `Exoplanet ${exoplanet.id} has no name.`); if (exoplanet.hostStarId !== null) { const host = starsById.get(exoplanet.hostStarId); assertCondition(host !== undefined, `Exoplanet ${exoplanet.id} references unknown star id ${exoplanet.hostStarId}.`); // A host known only as "Gaia DR3 2635476908753563008" cannot be found by searching for // TRAPPIST-1; fetchExoplanets names it after its host, and 575 were renamed. assertCondition(!isDesignation(host!), `Exoplanet ${exoplanet.id}'s host is only a designation, ${host!.name}, not named after ${exoplanet.hostStarName}.`); // The Sun has no exoplanets, so any match to it is a matching failure — historically a // blank distance column parsing as 0, which puts the host at the origin and matches Sol // exactly. Free, permanent tripwire for that whole class of bug. assertCondition( exoplanet.hostStarId !== SUN_STAR_ID, `Exoplanet ${exoplanet.id} was matched to the Sun, which has no exoplanets — the host-star match is wrong.` ); crossReferenced++; } assertCondition( exoplanet.periodDays === undefined || exoplanet.periodDays > 0, `Exoplanet ${exoplanet.id} has a non-positive orbital period.` ); assertCondition( exoplanet.hostStarMassSolar === undefined || exoplanet.hostStarMassSolar > 0, `Exoplanet ${exoplanet.id} has a non-positive host star mass.` ); } console.log(` ${crossReferenced}/${exoplanets.length} exoplanets have a host star on the map.`); assertCondition( crossReferenced >= exoplanets.length * MIN_HOSTED_SHARE, `Only ${crossReferenced} of ${exoplanets.length} exoplanets have a host star (at least ${MIN_HOSTED_SHARE * 100} % expected) — hosts are no longer being matched or added.` ); const withRadius = exoplanets.filter((exoplanet) => exoplanet.hostStarRadiusSolar !== undefined).length; const withTemperature = exoplanets.filter((exoplanet) => exoplanet.hostStarTemperatureK !== undefined).length; assertCondition( Math.min(withRadius, withTemperature) >= exoplanets.length * MIN_HOST_SURFACE_SHARE, `Only ${withRadius} of ${exoplanets.length} exoplanets carry their host's radius and ${withTemperature} its temperature (at least ${MIN_HOST_SURFACE_SHARE * 100} % expected) — st_rad or st_teff is being lost.` ); // Since d94451e st_lum warms the planets of 4 441 hosts and is what their cards print; lost, each // falls back to a derived luminosity, 757 of them more than 1.5 times off it. Measured 6 036. const luminosities = exoplanets.map((exoplanet) => exoplanet.hostStarLuminositySolar).filter((luminosity) => luminosity !== undefined); assertCondition( luminosities.length >= exoplanets.length * MIN_HOST_SURFACE_SHARE, `Only ${luminosities.length} of ${exoplanets.length} exoplanets carry their host's luminosity (at least ${MIN_HOST_SURFACE_SHARE * 100} % expected) — st_lum is being lost.` ); // Published as a logarithm, most of them negative: stored unconverted, they would not be. assertCondition( luminosities.every((luminosity) => Number.isFinite(luminosity) && luminosity! > 0), 'A host luminosity is not a positive number — st_lum is no longer converted from its logarithm.' ); console.log(` ${withRadius}/${exoplanets.length} carry their host's radius, ${withTemperature} its temperature, ${luminosities.length} its luminosity.`); let worstOffsetMas = 0; for (const star of stars.filter((candidate) => candidate.source === 'exoplanet-archive')) { const planet = exoplanets.find((candidate) => candidate.hostStarId === star.id)!; const at = propagateProperMotion(planet.hostRaDeg!, planet.hostDecDeg!, planet.hostPmRaMasPerYear ?? 0, planet.hostPmDecMasPerYear ?? 0, CATALOGUE_EPOCH - ARCHIVE_EPOCH); const expected = raDegDecDistanceToXyz(at.raDeg, at.decDeg, 1); const length = Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z); // The chord between the two directions, which unlike an arccosine resolves a milliarcsecond. const chord = Math.hypot(star.x / length - expected.x, star.y / length - expected.y, star.z / length - expected.z); worstOffsetMas = Math.max(worstOffsetMas, (chord * 180 * 3_600_000) / Math.PI); } assertCondition( worstOffsetMas <= MAX_ARCHIVE_EPOCH_OFFSET_MAS, `A star placed from the archive sits ${worstOffsetMas.toFixed(1)} mas from its published position carried to J2000 (at most ${MAX_ARCHIVE_EPOCH_OFFSET_MAS} expected) — it is carried from another epoch.` ); console.log(` Stars placed from the archive at most ${worstOffsetMas.toExponential(1)} mas from their published position carried to J2000.`); // How many can be propagated at their real rate rather than as if the host were the Sun. const withPeriod = exoplanets.filter((exoplanet) => exoplanet.periodDays !== undefined).length; const withHostMass = exoplanets.filter((exoplanet) => exoplanet.hostStarMassSolar !== undefined).length; console.log(` ${withPeriod}/${exoplanets.length} have a measured period, ${withHostMass} a host star mass.`); } const UNIT_VECTOR_TOLERANCE = 1e-6; /** * Objects the backdrop cannot ship without, two from each of OpenNGC's files: the Andromeda * Galaxy and the Small Magellanic Cloud from NGC.csv, the Large Magellanic Cloud and the * Pleiades from addendum.csv. The addendum went unread for as long as the ETL has existed, * because 463 objects without the brightest deep-sky object in the sky validated cleanly. */ const REQUIRED_DEEP_SKY_IDS = ['NGC0224', 'NGC0292', 'ESO056-115', 'Mel022']; /** * 107 of the 110 Messier objects. OpenNGC types the other three as what they are: M40 a double * star, M73 an asterism and M102 a duplicate of M101, none of them a deep-sky object to draw. */ const MIN_MESSIER_OBJECTS = 107; function validateDeepSky(objects: DeepSkyRecord[]): void { assertCondition(objects.length > 0, 'No deep-sky objects were produced.'); const ids = new Set(); for (const object of objects) { assertCondition(!!object.id, `Deep-sky object has no id: ${JSON.stringify(object)}`); assertCondition(!ids.has(object.id), `Duplicate deep-sky id: ${object.id}`); ids.add(object.id); assertCondition(!!object.name, `Deep-sky object ${object.id} has no name.`); // Positions are directions, so every one of them must be a unit vector — a zero-length // or mis-scaled entry would silently collapse onto the origin on the backdrop shell. const length = Math.hypot(object.x, object.y, object.z); assertCondition(Math.abs(length - 1) < UNIT_VECTOR_TOLERANCE, `Deep-sky object ${object.id} has a non-unit direction (length ${length}).`); assertCondition(object.angularSizeDeg >= 0, `Deep-sky object ${object.id} has a negative angular size.`); assertCondition(object.distancePc === null || object.distancePc > 0, `Deep-sky object ${object.id} has a non-positive distance.`); // The distance and its provenance have to travel together, or the UI cannot say where a // number came from. assertCondition( (object.distancePc === null) === (object.distanceMethod === null), `Deep-sky object ${object.id} has a distance/method mismatch.` ); } const kinds = new Set(objects.map((object) => object.kind)); for (const kind of ['galaxy', 'nebula', 'cluster'] as const) { assertCondition(kinds.has(kind), `No deep-sky objects of kind "${kind}" were produced.`); } for (const id of REQUIRED_DEEP_SKY_IDS) { assertCondition(ids.has(id), `Deep-sky object ${id} is missing — one of OpenNGC's two files was not read.`); } const messier = new Set(objects.map((object) => object.messier).filter((designation) => designation !== null)).size; assertCondition(messier >= MIN_MESSIER_OBJECTS, `Only ${messier} Messier objects were produced (at least ${MIN_MESSIER_OBJECTS} expected).`); const withDistance = objects.filter((object) => object.distancePc !== null).length; console.log(` ${withDistance}/${objects.length} deep-sky objects have a derived distance.`); } /** * Orchestrates the whole ETL pipeline: fetches every source (each caches its own raw * responses under `tools/etl/.cache/`), writes the static assets under `src/assets/data/`, * then validates the combined output for completeness before declaring success. */ async function build(): Promise { console.log('=== NASA star map ETL ===\n'); console.log('Catalogues:'); console.log(describeSources()); console.log(); const catalogueStars = await fetchStars(); console.log(); const bodies = await fetchSolarSystem(); console.log(); // Adds the hosts the catalogue lacks, so it is this list, not the one above, that is published. const { exoplanets, stars } = await fetchExoplanets(catalogueStars); console.log(); const deepSky = await fetchDeepSky(); console.log(); console.log('Validating output...'); validateStars(stars); validateMerge(stars, await glieseGaiaDesignations()); validateBodies(bodies); validateExoplanets(exoplanets, stars); validateDeepSky(deepSky); console.log('\nETL completed successfully:'); console.log(` stars: ${stars.length}`); console.log(` bodies: ${bodies.length}`); console.log(` exoplanets: ${exoplanets.length}`); console.log(` deep sky: ${deepSky.length}`); } build().catch((error) => { console.error('\nETL failed:', error instanceof Error ? error.message : error); process.exitCode = 1; });