The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program: Data, Tools, and Usage

TL;DR

This paper describes updates to NASA's Exoplanet Archive and Follow-up Program, highlighting new data, tools, and community coordination efforts to support exoplanet research amid growing data complexity.

Contribution

It introduces structural and functional enhancements to the NASA Exoplanet Archive and Follow-up Program, facilitating better data access, standardization, and community collaboration.

Findings

Expanded data holdings and improved interfaces

Standardized access modes for data retrieval

Over one million files uploaded by the community

Abstract

The NASA Exoplanet Archive and the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program service are two widely used resources for the exoplanet community. The NASA Exoplanet Archive provides a complete and accurate accounting of exoplanetary systems published by NASA missions and by the community in the refereed literature. In anticipation of continued exponential growth in the number of exoplanetary systems, and the increasing complexity in our characterization of these systems, the NASA Exoplanet Archive has restructured its primary tables and interfaces, as well as extending and standardizing their modes of access. The Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program service provides the exoplanet community with a venue for coordinating and sharing follow-up and precursor data for exoplanets, their host stars, and stars that might eventually be targets for future planet searches, and recently reached one million files uploaded by the community. In this paper we describe the updates to our data holdings, functionality, accessibility, and tools, as well as future priorities for these two services.