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star-map/tools/etl/fetchExoplanets.ts
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Claude 4aca223027 Regenerate the star catalogue, fixing 2331 names and 875 colours
Two ETL bugs, both fixed at the source and then re-run against HYG. Star ids,
ordering and positions are all unchanged, so stars.bin is byte-identical and
every exoplanet cross-reference still resolves.

Names. HYG's `gl` column already carries its own catalogue prefix ("Gl 581",
"GJ 3512"), unlike the bare numbers in `hd` and `hip`, so prefixing it again
produced 2331 of 8750 stars named "Gl GJ 1076". That corrupted three surfaces at
once: search, the on-screen labels, and exoplanet host-star name matching, which
compares normalised names and could never match "glgj1076" to "gj1076".

Colours. `Number(row['ci']) || 0` cannot tell a blank cell from a real zero, and
0 is a real B-V colour index meaning a hot blue-white A-type star. All 875
affected stars turned out to be blanks — the catalogue contains no genuine zero
inside the distance cutoff — so several hundred red dwarfs were rendering
blue-white. colorIndex is now `number | null` rather than defaulted, because any
numeric default is indistinguishable from a measurement.

Consumers resolve the gap from the spectral type instead. That needs real
parsing: HYG's `spect` column runs to 134 distinct spellings among the affected
stars alone, including a bare lowercase "m" for 354 of them, plus "k-m" ranges,
"dM4" luminosity prefixes and "K:" uncertainty flags. 622 of the 875 recover a
class this way — 497 of them M-class — and the remaining 253, which carry no
classification at all, fall back to neutral white.

The parse is anchored at the start of the string rather than scanning it. A scan
is the obvious implementation and is quietly wrong: the ETL writes the literal
"Unknown" for unclassified stars, that contains a K, and every one of those 253
would have been classified as an orange K-type. A test covers it.

Also lifts parseOptionalNumber out of fetchExoplanets into lib/csv, where both
fetchers now use it, and gives magnitude a faint default instead of 0 — no
current star is affected, but 0 would mean "as bright as Vega" and render an
unphotometered star as one of the largest points on the map.

Tests: 145 passing, up from 116, including the first coverage of
StarFieldRenderer. Build, both typechecks and the Playwright suite are green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WaySiNst4HhDXBHnMy8p5G
2026-08-04 10:56:30 +00:00

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import { writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
import { buildStarNameIndex, resolveHostStarId } from '../../src/app/shared/astro/host-star-matching';
import { ExoplanetRecord } from '../../src/app/shared/models/exoplanet.model';
import { StarRecord } from '../../src/app/shared/models/star.model';
import { fetchStars } 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',
'pl_orbsmax',
'pl_orbeccen',
'pl_orbincl',
'pl_orblper',
'pl_orbper',
'pl_rade',
'pl_bmasse',
'disc_year'
].join(',');
const TAP_QUERY = `select+${TAP_COLUMNS}+from+ps+where+default_flag=1&format=csv`;
const TAP_URL = `${TAP_BASE_URL}?query=${TAP_QUERY}`;
// A host star match must be within this many parsecs of the catalog position to be
// accepted as a cross-reference (guards against coincidental name/position collisions).
const MATCH_TOLERANCE_PC = 0.5;
/**
* Downloads confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (`Planetary Systems` TAP
* table), cross-references each host star to the HYG index, and writes `exoplanets.json`.
*/
export async function fetchExoplanets(stars?: StarRecord[]): Promise<ExoplanetRecord[]> {
console.log('Fetching confirmed exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive...');
const knownStars = stars ?? (await fetchStars());
const nameIndex = buildStarNameIndex(knownStars);
const csv = await fetchTextCached(TAP_URL, 'exoplanet-archive-ps.csv');
const rows = parseCsvObjects(csv);
let matched = 0;
const exoplanets: ExoplanetRecord[] = rows.map((row, index) => {
// `parseOptionalNumber`, not `Number`: a blank cell would otherwise become 0, which is a
// finite, plausible-looking coordinate rather than the "not measured" it actually means.
const raDeg = parseOptionalNumber(row['ra']) ?? Number.NaN;
const decDeg = parseOptionalNumber(row['dec']) ?? Number.NaN;
const distancePc = parseOptionalNumber(row['sy_dist']) ?? Number.NaN;
const hostStarId = resolveHostStarId(
{ hostname: row['hostname'], raDeg, decDeg, distancePc },
knownStars,
MATCH_TOLERANCE_PC,
nameIndex
);
if (hostStarId !== null) {
matched++;
}
return {
id: row['pl_name'] || `exoplanet-${index}`,
hostStarId,
hostStarName: row['hostname'],
name: row['pl_name'],
radiusEarth: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_rade']),
massEarth: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_bmasse']),
discoveryYear: parseOptionalNumber(row['disc_year']),
orbit: {
semiMajorAxisAu: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orbsmax']),
eccentricity: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orbeccen']),
inclinationDeg: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orbincl']),
argumentOfPeriapsisDeg: parseOptionalNumber(row['pl_orblper'])
}
};
});
ensureDataDir();
writeFileSync(dataPath('exoplanets.json'), JSON.stringify(exoplanets));
console.log(` wrote ${exoplanets.length} exoplanets (${matched} cross-referenced to a HYG host star).`);
return exoplanets;
}
if (require.main === module) {
fetchExoplanets().catch((error) => {
console.error(error);
process.exitCode = 1;
});
}