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The NStED Stellar and Exoplanet Hosting Star Service

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

S. Ramirez
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
B. Ali
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
R. Baker
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
G. B. Berriman
Affiliation:
Michelson Science Center Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
K. von Braun
Affiliation:
Michelson Science Center California Institute of Technology
N-M. Chiu
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
D. R. Ciardi
Affiliation:
Michelson Science Center California Institute of Technology
J. Good
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
S. R. Kane
Affiliation:
Michelson Science Center California Institute of Technology
A. C. Laity
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
D. L. McElroy
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
S. Monkewitz
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
A. N. Payne
Affiliation:
Michelson Science Center Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
M. Schmitz
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
J. R. Stauffer
Affiliation:
Spitzer Science Center California Institute of Technology
P. L. Wyatt
Affiliation:
Michelson Science Center Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
A. Zhang
Affiliation:
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center email: solange@ipac.caltech.edu California Institute of Technology
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Abstract

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The NASA Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) is a general purpose stellar archive with the aim of providing support for NASA's planet finding and characterization goals, stellar astrophysics, and the planning of NASA and other space missions. There are two principal components of NStED: a database of (currently) 140,000 nearby stars and exoplanet-hosting stars, and an archive dedicated to high precision photometric surveys for transiting exoplanets. We present a summary of the NStED stellar database, functionality, tools, and user interface. NStED currently serves the following kinds of data for 140,000 stars (where available): coordinates, multiplicity, proper motion, parallax, spectral type, multiband photometry, radial velocity, metallicity, chromospheric and coronal activity index, and rotation velocity/period. Furthermore, the following derived quantities are given wherever possible: distance, effective temperature, mass, radius, luminosity, space motions, and physical/angular dimensions of habitable zone. Queries to NStED can be made using constraints on any combination of the above parameters. In addition, NStED provides tools to derive specific inferred quantities for the stars in the database, cross-referenced with available extra-solar planetary data for those host stars. NStED can be accessed at http://nsted.ipac.caltech.edu.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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