import { createHash } from 'node:crypto'; import { propagateProperMotion, raDegDecDistanceToXyz } from '../../../src/app/shared/astro/coordinates'; import { StarRecord } from '../../../src/app/shared/models/star.model'; import { parseCsvObjects, parseOptionalNumber } from '../lib/csv'; import { fetchTextCached } from '../lib/http'; /** * Gaia DR3, via the ESA archive's TAP service. * * The only one of the large modern surveys that can add stars to a *3D* map, because it is the * only one that measures parallaxes for them. Its 1.8 billion sources are roughly 1% of the * Galaxy — no catalogue is close to the rest — but within a few hundred parsecs it is complete * in a way Hipparcos never was, and its parallaxes are fifty times more precise. * * Written blind against the published DR3 schema, since no ESA endpoint was reachable from the * environment it was written in; first run for real by the scheduled refresh of 2026-08-24, which * fetched 412 765 rows. */ const GAIA_TAP_URL = 'https://gea.esac.esa.int/tap-server/tap/sync'; /** * Gaia DR3 gives positions for J2016.0; HYG for J2000.0, which is the epoch this map keeps. * Sixteen years of proper motion is over an arcsecond for anything faster than ~62 mas/yr — * which is most of the nearest stars: 62″ for Proxima, 166″ for Barnard's — so as published, the * two catalogues never agree on where those stars are, and a merge that matched them on the sky * kept every one of them twice. Each position is therefore carried back to J2000.0 with Gaia's * own proper motion before it leaves here. */ const GAIA_DR3_EPOCH = 2016.0; const CATALOGUE_EPOCH = 2000.0; /** * How far out to take Gaia, in parsecs, and the faintest star to keep. * * Both exist to bound the download rather than the science. Gaia's parallaxes stay useful far * past anything this map draws, so the limit here is a payload decision: the catalogue is baked * into a static asset that a browser downloads before the first frame. */ const DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC = Number(process.env['ETL_GAIA_DISTANCE_PC'] ?? 250); const MAGNITUDE_LIMIT = Number(process.env['ETL_GAIA_MAGNITUDE_LIMIT'] ?? 12); const ROW_LIMIT = Number(process.env['ETL_GAIA_ROW_LIMIT'] ?? 500000); /** * Relative parallax error above which a star is dropped: a parallax measured to worse than 20% * gives a distance that is not worth plotting, and inverting a noisy parallax biases it badly. */ const MAX_PARALLAX_ERROR_RATIO = 0.2; /** Parallax in milliarcseconds for a given distance — the query's cutoff, expressed as Gaia has it. */ function parallaxFloorMas(distancePc: number): number { return 1000 / distancePc; } function buildQuery(): string { return [ `select top ${ROW_LIMIT}`, 'source_id, ra, dec, pmra, pmdec, parallax, parallax_error, phot_g_mean_mag, bp_rp', 'from gaiadr3.gaia_source', `where parallax > ${parallaxFloorMas(DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC).toFixed(6)}`, `and parallax_over_error > ${(1 / MAX_PARALLAX_ERROR_RATIO).toFixed(1)}`, `and phot_g_mean_mag < ${MAGNITUDE_LIMIT}`, // source_id breaks the ties — 20 064 groups share a G at the published precision — so the // row order, and with it the ids assigned below, is a pure function of the archive's content. 'order by phot_g_mean_mag asc, source_id asc' ].join(' '); } /** * Gaia publishes no spectral classifications, but `bp_rp` is a colour index on the same footing * as HYG's `ci` — so the app's existing colour and spectral-class handling works unchanged, and * the spectral type is left as unknown rather than invented from the colour. */ const UNKNOWN_SPECTRAL_TYPE = 'Unknown'; /** * Gaia source ids are 19 digits and there are no proper names, so a star's identity here is its * catalogue designation. The app's star ids are 32-bit, which a Gaia source id overflows, so the * two are kept apart: `id` is assigned within this run's own range and the designation carries * the real identifier in the name. */ const GAIA_ID_BASE = 1_000_000_000; export async function fetchGaiaStars(): Promise { const query = buildQuery(); const url = `${GAIA_TAP_URL}?REQUEST=doQuery&LANG=ADQL&FORMAT=csv&QUERY=${encodeURIComponent(query)}`; console.log(`Fetching Gaia DR3 (within ${DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC} pc, G < ${MAGNITUDE_LIMIT}, at most ${ROW_LIMIT} rows)...`); // Keyed by the query itself, so a response cached for other columns or another order can // never be mistaken for this one. const csv = await fetchTextCached(url, `gaia-dr3-${createHash('sha1').update(query).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`); const rows = parseCsvObjects(csv); const stars: StarRecord[] = []; rows.forEach((row, index) => { const parallaxMas = parseOptionalNumber(row['parallax']); const raDeg = parseOptionalNumber(row['ra']); const decDeg = parseOptionalNumber(row['dec']); if (!parallaxMas || parallaxMas <= 0 || raDeg === undefined || decDeg === undefined) { return; } const distancePc = 1000 / parallaxMas; if (distancePc > DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC) { return; } const j2000 = propagateProperMotion(raDeg, decDeg, parseOptionalNumber(row['pmra']) ?? 0, parseOptionalNumber(row['pmdec']) ?? 0, CATALOGUE_EPOCH - GAIA_DR3_EPOCH); const { x, y, z } = raDegDecDistanceToXyz(j2000.raDeg, j2000.decDeg, distancePc); stars.push({ id: GAIA_ID_BASE + index, name: `Gaia DR3 ${row['source_id']}`, x, y, z, magnitude: parseOptionalNumber(row['phot_g_mean_mag']) ?? MAGNITUDE_LIMIT, spectralType: UNKNOWN_SPECTRAL_TYPE, colorIndex: parseOptionalNumber(row['bp_rp']) ?? null, source: 'gaia' }); }); console.log(` kept ${stars.length} Gaia stars (of ${rows.length} rows).`); return stars; }