The Habitable Zone Gallery

TL;DR

The Habitable Zone Gallery is an online tool providing detailed information, visualizations, and animations of exoplanetary systems' habitability based on orbital parameters.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, publicly accessible web service that visualizes habitable zones and planetary properties for known exoplanets.

Findings

Provides habitability metrics for exoplanets

Visualizes orbital dynamics and habitable zones

Includes animations for orbit and temperature changes

Abstract

The Habitable Zone Gallery (www.hzgallery.org) is a new service to the exoplanet community which provides Habitable Zone (HZ) information for each of the exoplanetary systems with known planetary orbital parameters. The service includes a sortable table with information on the percentage of orbital phase spent within the HZ, planetary effective temperatures, and other basic planetary properties. In addition to the table, we also plot the period and eccentricity of the planets with respect to their time spent in the HZ. The service includes a gallery of known systems which plot the orbits and the location of the HZ with respect to those orbits. Also provided are animations which aid in orbit visualization and provide the changing effective temperature for those planets in eccentric orbits. Here we describe the science motivation, the under-lying calculations, and the structure of the web site.