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star-map/tools/etl/fetchExoplanets.ts
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SenrokaiandClaude Opus 5.5 a81dd491ad Say which band each star was measured in, whose catalogue it is, and how sure its distance is
The readout named Hipparcos, Yale and Gliese while 378 775 of the 455 608 stars are described by
Gaia DR3, printed one "Magnitude" for G and V alike, and gave every distance to the parsec. The
band cannot be read off the star's source, which records whose position it has: 62 002 stars Gaia
places keep HYG's V and B-V, and the 575 hosts renamed after their planets are Gaia's, in G.

stars-meta.bin gains two byte columns, 14 to 16 bytes a star (6 378 512 to 7 289 728 bytes; gzip
-9 2 804 049 to 3 110 991). One holds the magnitude's band (V 76 555 stars, G 378 744, none 309,
whose magnitude is a stand-in), which colour the colour index is (B-V 75 203, BP-RP 376 703), and
whether the distance is Gaia's parallax. The other holds the distance's relative error as its
square root in 255ths: a step is 0.08 % of distance at 1 %, 0.35 % at 20 %, and 100 % is the top.
encode, decode, BYTES_PER_STAR_META and the build.ts round trip cover both; no workflow reads the
format.

Where the errors come from:
- Gaia rows keep the parallax_error their query already fetched: median 0.3 %, 90th percentile
  1.2 %, at most 20 %, the query's own cut.
- A HYG star at Gaia's distance takes the cross-match's parallax_over_error, and a star merged
  into a Gaia entry keeps that entry's error with its position.
- The 3 067 Hipparcos stars that keep their Hipparcos distance, Rigel, Deneb and Alnilam among
  them, take e_plx from van Leeuwen's 2007 reduction: a new cached query of
  public.hipparcos_newreduction on the ESA archive, whose 117 955 rows HYG's distances invert.
- The archive's stars take sy_disterr1/2 from pscomppars, in a query and cache file of their own
  so the composite rows already cached were not refetched.
- 439 distances have no published error: 357 Gliese rows and 82 archive hosts.

Of the errors, 392 786 are 1 % or less and are not printed; 61 156 print as "117 ± 12 pc" to the
distance's own digits; 1 196 between 20 and 100 %, and 30 past it, print as the range the
parallax gives, since a symmetric error in parallax is a lopsided one in distance.

The star card (measured on the dev server) now reads, for example:
- Rigel: 265 ± 23 pc, V 0.18, B-V -0.03, source HYG.
- Deneb: 433 ± 60 pc.
- Alnilam: "476 pc to 833 pc" (Hipparcos 1.65 ± 0.45 mas).
- Gaia DR3 5612323414549657984: 111 ± 2 pc, G 4.63, BP-RP -0.15, source Gaia DR3.
- Proxima Centauri: 1.30 pc, V 11.01, source "HYG, Gaia DR3 distance".
- TRAPPIST-1: G 15.62, BP-RP 4.90, source Gaia DR3.
- Kepler-186: V 15.14, source NASA Exoplanet Archive.
The neighbourhood's subtitle reads "Gaia DR3 378,775 · HYG 73,556 · NASA Exoplanet Archive
3,277", counted by the catalogue describing each star.

build.ts validateStars now fails a catalogue with more than 1 000 stars without a band (309
today) or without a distance error (439). Dropping G from the Gaia rows gave 379 040 without a
band, and dropping their parallax_error gave 441 216 without an error; both runs failed.

Decoding the catalogue in Node took a median 29 ms before and 24 ms after (nine runs each, within
noise). In the app, five cold boots gave a 654-786 ms long task after the data landed and the
HUD at 1.83-2.07 s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-24 23:26:27 +02:00

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import { createHash } from 'node:crypto';
import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
import { propagateProperMotion, raDegDecDistanceToXyz } from '../../src/app/shared/astro/coordinates';
import { buildStarNameIndex, resolveHostStarId } from '../../src/app/shared/astro/host-star-matching';
import { temperatureToColorIndex } from '../../src/app/shared/astro/spectral';
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, writeStarAssets } from './fetchStars';
import { parseCsvObjects, parseOptionalNumber } from './lib/csv';
import { fetchTextCached } from './lib/http';
import { dataPath, ensureDataDir } from './lib/paths';
const TAP_BASE_URL = 'https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP/sync';
const TAP_COLUMNS = [
'pl_name',
'hostname',
'ra',
'dec',
'sy_dist',
'sy_pmra',
'sy_pmdec',
'pl_orbsmax',
'pl_orbeccen',
'pl_orbincl',
'pl_orblper',
'pl_orbper',
'pl_rade',
'pl_bmasse',
'st_mass',
'disc_year'
].join(',');
// Ordered explicitly: without it the archive is free to return rows in any order, and a
// scheduled re-run of the ETL would then rewrite exoplanets.json — and commit a diff — when
// nothing was actually published. pl_name is unique among default_flag=1 rows, so the order
// is total and the output is a pure function of the archive's content.
const TAP_QUERY = `select+${TAP_COLUMNS}+from+ps+where+default_flag=1+order+by+pl_name&format=csv`;
const TAP_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=${TAP_QUERY}`;
// The cache is keyed by the request it answers — endpoint included, since the cache records
// only that some response arrived: one cached before a column was added would otherwise keep
// serving rows without it, and a missing proper-motion cell reads as "does not move",
// silently wrong rather than visibly broken.
const CACHE_FILE = `exoplanet-archive-ps-${createHash('sha1').update(TAP_URL).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
/**
* 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.
*/
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-${createHash('sha1').update(COMPOSITE_URL).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
/**
* The same table's distance errors, for the stars placed from the archive. A query of its own,
* cached apart, so that asking for them did not refetch the columns above: the archive changes
* daily, and a new answer would have moved every figure the catalogue was checked against.
*/
const DISTANCE_ERRORS_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=select+pl_name,sy_disterr1,sy_disterr2+from+pscomppars+order+by+pl_name&format=csv`;
const DISTANCE_ERRORS_CACHE_FILE = `exoplanet-archive-disterr-${createHash('sha1').update(DISTANCE_ERRORS_URL).digest('hex').slice(0, 8)}.csv`;
/**
* Where the ids of the stars only the archive places begin: past Gaia's two ranges, and under
* the 2^30 `validateStars` holds every id to.
*/
const ARCHIVE_ID_BASE = 1_070_000_000;
const ARCHIVE_SOURCE = 'exoplanet-archive';
/**
* The archive's positions are at Gaia's epoch, J2016, not the catalogue's J2000: of the 746
* matched hosts moving over 100 mas a year, 741 sit nearer their star once carried back sixteen
* years (a median 0.11″ from it, against 3.47″ as published). The matcher tries both epochs; a
* star placed from the archive has to pick one.
*/
const ARCHIVE_TO_CATALOGUE_YEARS = 2000 - 2016;
/** As in `fetchStars`: faint, for a host the archive gives neither a V nor a G magnitude. */
const UNKNOWN_MAGNITUDE = 15;
/**
* Downloads confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (`Planetary Systems` TAP
* table), cross-references each host star to the star catalogue, adds a star from the archive's
* own figures for each host the catalogue lacks but the archive places, and writes
* `exoplanets.json` together with the star assets, which those additions change. 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]));
const distanceErrors = new Map(parseCsvObjects(await fetchTextCached(DISTANCE_ERRORS_URL, DISTANCE_ERRORS_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 archiveStars = new Map<string, StarRecord>();
const bands = { V: 0, G: 0, none: 0 };
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 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');
let hostStarId = resolveHostStarId(
{ 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']);
}
} else if ([raDeg, decDeg, distancePc].every(Number.isFinite) && distancePc > 0) {
let archiveStar = archiveStars.get(row['hostname']);
if (!archiveStar) {
// Carried back from the archive's epoch like any Gaia row, and placed at `sy_dist`.
const j2000 = propagateProperMotion(raDeg, decDeg, pmRaMasPerYear ?? 0, pmDecMasPerYear ?? 0, ARCHIVE_TO_CATALOGUE_YEARS);
// V where the archive has it, as HYG's stars are; else Gaia's G, the band the catalogue's
// Gaia stars are already in.
const v = host('sy_vmag');
const g = host('sy_gaiamag');
const b = host('sy_bmag');
const temperatureK = host('st_teff');
const band = v !== undefined ? 'V' : g !== undefined ? 'G' : undefined;
bands[band ?? 'none']++;
// B-V where the archive has both magnitudes, else the effective temperature's; with
// neither, null leaves the colour to the spectral type, as for any other star.
const colorIndex = b !== undefined && v !== undefined ? b - v : temperatureK !== undefined ? temperatureToColorIndex(temperatureK) : null;
// The archive gives the distance's error as two one-sided ones; their mean, relative.
const errors = distanceErrors.get(row['pl_name']);
const [above, below] = [parseOptionalNumber(errors?.['sy_disterr1']), parseOptionalNumber(errors?.['sy_disterr2'])];
archiveStar = {
id: ARCHIVE_ID_BASE + archiveStars.size,
name: row['hostname'],
...raDegDecDistanceToXyz(j2000.raDeg, j2000.decDeg, distancePc),
magnitude: v ?? g ?? UNKNOWN_MAGNITUDE,
...(band === undefined ? {} : { magnitudeBand: band }),
spectralType: compositeRow?.['st_spectype'] || 'Unknown',
colorIndex,
...(colorIndex === null ? {} : { colorSystem: 'B-V' as const }),
...(above === undefined || below === undefined ? {} : { distanceError: (Math.abs(above) + Math.abs(below)) / 2 / distancePc }),
source: ARCHIVE_SOURCE
};
archiveStars.set(row['hostname'], archiveStar);
}
hostStarId = archiveStar.id;
}
return {
id: row['pl_name'] || `exoplanet-${index}`,
hostStarId,
hostStarName: row['hostname'],
name: row['pl_name'],
radiusEarth: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_rade']),
massEarth: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_bmasse']),
discoveryYear: parseOptionalNumber(row['disc_year']),
// The period was already being downloaded and thrown away. With the semi-major axis it
// 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: 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: host('ra'),
hostDecDeg: host('dec'),
hostDistancePc: host('sy_dist'),
hostPmRaMasPerYear: pmRaMasPerYear,
hostPmDecMasPerYear: pmDecMasPerYear,
orbit: {
semiMajorAxisAu: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orbsmax']),
eccentricity: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orbeccen']),
inclinationDeg: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orbincl']),
argumentOfPeriapsisDeg: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orblper'])
}
};
});
// Appended after the catalogue, whose ids all sit below ARCHIVE_ID_BASE, so the list stays in
// the id order `fetchStars` sorted it into.
const added = [...archiveStars.values()];
const allStars = [...knownStars.map((star) => (renamed.has(star.id) ? { ...star, name: renamed.get(star.id)! } : star)), ...added];
writeStarAssets(allStars);
ensureDataDir();
writeFileSync(dataPath('exoplanets.json'), JSON.stringify(exoplanets));
console.log(
` wrote ${exoplanets.length} exoplanets: ${matched} on a catalogue star (${renamed.size} Gaia designations named after their host), ` +
`${exoplanets.filter((exoplanet) => exoplanet.hostStarId !== null).length - matched} on ${added.length} stars added from the archive ` +
`(${added.filter((star) => Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z) <= 250).length} within 250 pc; magnitude in V for ${bands.V}, in G for ${bands.G}, none for ${bands.none}).`
);
return { exoplanets, stars: allStars };
}
if (require.main === module) {
fetchExoplanets().catch((error) => {
console.error(error);
process.exitCode = 1;
});
}