The NASA Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED) collects and serves public data to support the search for and characterization of extra-solar planets (exoplanets) and their host stars. The data include published light curves, images, spectra and parameters, and time-series data from surveys that aim to discover transiting exoplanets. All data are validated by the NStED science staff and traced to their sources. NStED is the U.S. data portal for the CoRoT mission.
July 19, 2011 A bumper crop of new planets have been added: HD 132563b, HD 137388b, HD 204941b, HD 7199b, HD 7449b and HD 7449c, CoRoT-18b, and Kepler-14b.
July 5, 2011: Five new planets added: HAT-P-31b, HAT-P-32b, HAT-P-33b, MOA-2009-BLG-266Lb, and CoRoT-17b.
June 15, 2011: The CoRoT project archive at Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) in Paris, France has added links to NStED's for all public data. Archive users may, with the simple push of a button, launch the at NStED, which will return a page containing the periodogram, their periodicities and their significance, and the corresponding phased light curves.
June 1, 2011: NStED has released an Application Programming Interface for users to utilize their own scripts and programs to access NStED. The API, which is based on the Structured Query Language (SQL), can be used to access NStED data on the exoplanets and the stars that host exoplanets.
May 23, 2011: Three new planets added: WASP-44b, WASP-45b and WASP-46b.
May 1, 2011: The 1,235 Kepler exoplanet candidates have been integrated in the Kepler light curve service at NStED. See the NStED Spotlight, below, for details.The 1,235 Kepler exoplanet candidates have been integrated in the Kepler light curve service at NStED. Users can search on stellar, planet candidate, and transit candidate properties, retrieve a list of candidates matching the search criteria, and use the list to retrieve all public light curves associated with those candidates.
The planet candidate interface, which is integrated with the NStED Periodogram Service, can be accessed from NStED home by clicking the Kepler Planetary Candidates link in the Transit Survey Light Curves section.
Image Credit: Jason Rowe, Kepler Science Team
The above illustration shows all of Kepler's planet candidates in transit with their parent stars, ordered by size, from top left to bottom right. For more information, see the Kepler mission Web site.