The NASA/IPAC/NExScI Star and Exoplanet Database

The NASA/IPAC/NExScI Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) is a general purpose stellar archive which supports NASA planet-finding and planet-characterization goals, stellar astrophysics, and the planning of NASA and other space missions. There are two principal components of NStED: a database of 140,...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2009-03
Main Authors: Berriman, G B, Ali, B, Baker, R, K von Braun, N-M, Chiu, Ciardi, D R, Good, J, Kane, S R, Kong, M, Laity, A C, McElroy, D L, Monkewitz, S, Payne, A N, Ramirez, S, Schmitz, M, Stauffer, J S, Wyatt, P L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Archives & records
Archiving
Astrophysics
Celestial bodies
Extrasolar planets
Metallicity
Parallax
Parameters
Photometry
Radial velocity
Space missions
Star clusters
Stars
Transit
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Summary:The NASA/IPAC/NExScI Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) is a general purpose stellar archive which supports NASA planet-finding and planet-characterization goals, stellar astrophysics, and the planning of NASA and other space missions. There are two principal components of NStED: a database of 140,000 nearby stars and exoplanet-hosting stars, and an archive dedicated to high precision photometric surveys for transiting exoplanets (NStED-ETSS). We present summaries of these components. The NStED stellar database currently serves published parameters for 140,000 stars. These parameters include coordinates, multiplicity, proper motion, parallax, spectral type, multiband photometry, radial velocity, metallicity, chromospheric and coronal activity index, rotation velocity/period, infrared excess. NStED-ETSS currently serves data from the TrES survey of the Kepler field as well as dedicated photometric surveys of four stellar clusters. NStED-ETSS aims to serve both the surveys and the broader astronomical community by archiving these data and making them available in a homogeneous format.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.0903.2505