Exoplanet Data Explorer

Exoplanet Data Explorer / Exoplanet Orbit Database

Type of site	Astronomy
Created by	Jason T. Wright, Geoff Marcy, and the California Planet Survey consortium. Website design and maintenance by Onsi Fakhouri
URL	http://exoplanets.org
Current status	Inactive

The Exoplanet Data Explorer / Exoplanet Orbit Database is a database listing extrasolar planets up to 24 Jupiter masses.^[1][2] It is no longer actively maintained.

Overview

"We have retained the generous upper mass limit of 24 Jupiter masses in our definition of a “planet”, for the same reasons as in the Catalog: at the moment, any mass limit is arbitrary and will serve little practical function both because of the sin i ambiguity in radial velocity masses and because of the lack of physical motivation.

The 13 Jupiter-mass distinction by the IAU Working Group is physically unmotivated for planets with rocky cores, and observationally problematic due to the sin i ambiguity. A useful theoretical and rhetorical distinction is to segregate brown dwarfs from planets by their formation mechanism, but such a distinction is of little utility observationally."^[1]

The database was updated to include new exoplanets and possible exoplanets, using data from other archives such as the Astrophysics Data System, arXiv and the NASA Exoplanet Archive.^[3] The database stopped being updated in mid-2018 and is no longer actively maintained.^[4]

See also

• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
• NASA Exoplanet Archive

References

1. The Exoplanet Orbit Database, Jason T Wright, Onsi Fakhouri, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Eunkyu Han, Ying Feng, John Asher Johnson, Andrew W. Howard, Jeff A. Valenti, Jay Anderson, Nikolai Piskunov
2. Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets, R. P. Butler, J. T. Wright, G. W. Marcy, D. A Fischer, S. S. Vogt, C. G. Tinney, H. R. A. Jones, B. D. Carter, J. A. Johnson, C. McCarthy, A. J. Penny, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 646, Number 1, 2006
3. Feng, Ying; Han, E.; Fakhouri, O.; Ford, E.B. (January 2013). "New Features of the Exoplanet Orbit Database at Exoplanets.org". American Astronomical Society. Bibcode:2013AAS...22134003F – via ResearchGate.
4. "Exoplanet Orbit Database | Exoplanet Data Explorer". Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.