star-map/tools/etl/fetchStars.ts

import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';

import { mergeStarCatalogues, placementDistancePc } from '../../src/app/shared/astro/star-merge';
import { encodeStarCatalog } from '../../src/app/shared/models/star-catalog';
import { StarRecord, SUN_STAR_ID } from '../../src/app/shared/models/star.model';
import { fetchGaiaDistancesByHip, GaiaAnswerError } from './sources/gaia';
import { positionalSources } from './sources/registry';
import { PARALLAX_PRECISION_MAS } from './sources/star-sources';
import { parseCsvObjects, parseOptionalNumber } from './lib/csv';
import { fetchTextCached } from './lib/http';
import { dataPath, ensureDataDir } from './lib/paths';

const HYG_CSV_URL = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astronexus/HYG-Database/main/hyg/CURRENT/hygdata_v41.csv';
const HYG_UNKNOWN_DISTANCE_PC = 100000; // HYG's placeholder for unmeasured/unreliable parallax

/**
 * Stand-in magnitude for a star with no photometry. Faint rather than 0, because 0 would mean
 * "as bright as Vega" and render it as one of the largest points on the map.
 */
const UNKNOWN_MAGNITUDE = 15;

/**
 * Stars either survey places within this distance (parsecs) of the Sun are kept for the galaxy
 * view, and every naked-eye star wherever it is; `placementDistancePc` decides which distance a
 * kept star is drawn at.
 *
 * Set at the range Hipparcos's own measurements reach rather than at a round number: its
 * parallaxes are good to roughly a milliarcsecond, so at 250 pc (4 mas) a distance is uncertain
 * by some tens of per cent. That is why it is not applied to the Hipparcos distance alone:
 * Gaia puts 6 833 of the stars Hipparcos places inside it outside, and 3 666 the other way
 * round. Only the *radial* placement blurs; a star's direction on the sky stays exact.
 *
 * The catalogue is also magnitude-limited, so this is not a volume-complete sample beyond about
 * 50 pc: it thins to the intrinsically bright, which is the same selection the naked eye makes.
 */
const DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC = Number(process.env['ETL_STAR_DISTANCE_PC'] ?? 250);

function resolveName(row: Record<string, string>): string {
  if (row['proper']) {
    return row['proper'];
  }
  if (row['bayer'] && row['con']) {
    return `${row['bayer']} ${row['con']}`;
  }
  if (row['flam'] && row['con']) {
    return `${row['flam']} ${row['con']}`;
  }
  if (row['hd']) {
    return `HD ${row['hd']}`;
  }
  if (row['gl']) {
    // Already a complete designation ("Gl 581", "GJ 3512"), unlike the bare numbers in `hd`
    // and `hip` — prefixing it again produced 2331 stars named "Gl GJ 1076", which broke
    // search, the on-screen labels, and exoplanet host-star name matching alike.
    return row['gl'];
  }
  if (row['hip']) {
    return `HIP ${row['hip']}`;
  }
  return `HYG ${row['id']}`;
}

/**
 * Downloads the HYG (Hipparcos/Yale/Gliese) stellar database, places each star along its
 * equatorial direction (epoch J2000.0) at the better of its Hipparcos and Gaia distances, keeps
 * the ones either survey puts within range, unions the other positional sources, and writes
 * `stars.bin` (packed positions) + `stars-index.json` (everything else).
 */
export async function fetchStars(): Promise<StarRecord[]> {
  console.log(`Fetching HYG star catalog (distance cutoff: ${DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC} pc)...`);
  const csv = await fetchTextCached(HYG_CSV_URL, 'hygdata_v41.csv');
  const rows = parseCsvObjects(csv);
  // Not skipped when unreachable, unlike the positional sources below; see its own comment.
  const gaiaPcByHip = await fetchGaiaDistancesByHip();

  const stars: StarRecord[] = [];
  let atGaiaDistance = 0;
  let pastCutoff = 0;

  for (const row of rows) {
    const id = Number(row['id']);

    if (id === SUN_STAR_ID) {
      stars.push({ id, name: 'Sol', x: 0, y: 0, z: 0, magnitude: parseOptionalNumber(row['mag']) ?? UNKNOWN_MAGNITUDE, spectralType: row['spect'] || 'G2V', colorIndex: parseOptionalNumber(row['ci']) ?? null });
      continue;
    }

    const hygPc = Number(row['dist']);
    const hipparcosPc = Number.isFinite(hygPc) && hygPc > 0 && hygPc < HYG_UNKNOWN_DISTANCE_PC ? hygPc : undefined;
    const gaiaPc = row['hip'] ? gaiaPcByHip.get(Number(row['hip'])) : undefined;
    const magnitude = parseOptionalNumber(row['mag']) ?? UNKNOWN_MAGNITUDE;
    const distancePc = placementDistancePc(hipparcosPc, gaiaPc, magnitude, DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC);
    if (distancePc === null) {
      continue;
    }

    // HYG's own Cartesian columns rather than its `ra`/`dec`, which are in the same frame as
    // `raDecDistanceToXyz` and would be redundant if the two agreed. They do not, for the stars
    // that move: the right ascension was carried from the Hipparcos epoch to 2000.0 without the
    // cos δ its motion needs, which puts Proxima 17.9″ from where HYG's own x/y/z — and Gaia,
    // once brought to the same epoch — have it. 1813 stars differ by over an arcsecond, and the
    // Cartesian columns are the ones Gaia agrees with for 1155 of them against 156 (one of those,
    // HIP 57146, has x/y/z 161″ from its own ra/dec and stays double).
    //
    // Only their direction is used. They sit at HYG's own distance, or at its 100 000 pc
    // placeholder where it has none, and are carried along that direction to the one chosen above.
    const x = Number(row['x']);
    const y = Number(row['y']);
    const z = Number(row['z']);
    const length = Math.hypot(x, y, z);
    if (![x, y, z].every(Number.isFinite) || length === 0) {
      continue;
    }
    const scale = distancePc / length;
    if (gaiaPc !== undefined) {
      atGaiaDistance++;
    }
    if (distancePc > DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC) {
      pastCutoff++;
    }

    stars.push({
      id,
      name: resolveName(row),
      x: x * scale,
      y: y * scale,
      z: z * scale,
      magnitude,
      spectralType: row['spect'] || 'Unknown',
      colorIndex: parseOptionalNumber(row['ci']) ?? null,
      // Only for the Gliese-only rows, whose positions are what the merge needs the motion to see
      // past. A Hipparcos position is good to under an arcsecond; given its motion too, 15 stars
      // took their co-moving companion's Gaia entry, and the companion was kept twice.
      ...(row['hip'] ? {} : { pmRaMasYr: parseOptionalNumber(row['pmra']), pmDecMasYr: parseOptionalNumber(row['pmdec']) })
    });
  }

  console.log(`  kept ${stars.length} stars (of ${rows.length} in the catalog): ${atGaiaDistance} at Gaia's distance, ${pastCutoff} of them past ${DISTANCE_CUTOFF_PC} pc.`);

  const merged = await mergeWithOtherSources(stars);
  merged.sort((a, b) => a.id - b.id);
  writeStarAssets(merged);
  return merged;
}

/**
 * Unions HYG with every other positional source that is wired in and reachable.
 *
 * A source that cannot be reached is reported and skipped here rather than thrown, so a run still
 * gets as far as validation and says what it has. Whether that may be published is decided
 * there: `validateMerge` in build.ts refuses a catalogue Gaia contributed nothing to. A source
 * that answered with something unusable ({@link GaiaAnswerError}) is a different matter, and stops
 * the run where it happened rather than being reported later as an outage.
 */
async function mergeWithOtherSources(hygStars: StarRecord[]): Promise<StarRecord[]> {
  const others = positionalSources().filter((source) => source.id !== 'hyg');
  if (others.length === 0) {
    return hygStars;
  }

  const candidates = [{ sourceId: 'hyg', parallaxPrecisionMas: PARALLAX_PRECISION_MAS['hyg'], stars: hygStars }];

  for (const source of others) {
    try {
      candidates.push({
        sourceId: source.id,
        parallaxPrecisionMas: PARALLAX_PRECISION_MAS[source.id] ?? 1,
        stars: await source.fetch!()
      });
    } catch (error) {
      // An answer that cannot be worked with is not an outage: skipping it would write a
      // half-catalogue over the published assets before the merge gate got to say so.
      if (error instanceof GaiaAnswerError) {
        throw error;
      }
      console.log(`  skipping ${source.name}: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : error}`);
    }
  }

  if (candidates.length === 1) {
    return hygStars;
  }

  const { stars, summary } = mergeStarCatalogues(candidates);
  console.log(`  merged ${summary.total} stars from ${candidates.length} catalogues (${summary.duplicates} entries folded into a better-measured one):`);
  for (const [sourceId, count] of Object.entries(summary.bySource)) {
    console.log(`    ${sourceId}: ${count}`);
  }
  return stars;
}

function writeStarAssets(stars: StarRecord[]): void {
  ensureDataDir();

  // The layout lives in `star-catalog.ts`, which the app decodes with — one definition, so the
  // writer and the reader cannot drift.
  const { index, positions, meta } = encodeStarCatalog(stars);

  writeFileSync(dataPath('stars.bin'), Buffer.from(positions.buffer));
  writeFileSync(dataPath('stars-meta.bin'), Buffer.from(meta));
  writeFileSync(dataPath('stars-index.json'), JSON.stringify(index));
}

if (require.main === module) {
  fetchStars().catch((error) => {
    console.error(error);
    process.exitCode = 1;
  });
}