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The NASA Exoplanet Archive: Data and Tools for Exoplanet Research

Rachel AkesonNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125X. ChenNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125David R. CiardiNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Megan CraneNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125John GoodNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125M. HarbutInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125E. S. JacksonInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Stephen R. KaneNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125A. C. LaityNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Stephanie LeiferNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Mary R. LynnInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125D. L. McElroyNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125M. PapinNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Peter PlavchanNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Solange RamírezNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Raquel Oreiro ReyInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Kaspar von BraunNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125M. WittmanInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125M. AbajianNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125B. AliInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Charles BeichmanNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125A. BeekleyNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125G. Bruce BerrimanNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125S. J. BerukoffNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125G. BrydenJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91108B. ChanNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Steven L. GroomInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Chun‐Sean LauNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125A. N. PayneNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125Moira RegelsonNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125M. SaucedoNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125M. SchmitzInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125J. StaufferInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125P. WyattNASA Exoplanet Science Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125A. ZhangInfrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125
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Abstract

We describe the contents and functionality of the NASA Exoplanet Archive, a database and toolset funded by NASA to support astronomers in the exoplanet community. The current content of the database includes interactive tables containing properties of all published exoplanets, Kepler planet candidates, threshold-crossing events, data validation reports and target stellar parameters, light curves from the Kepler and CoRoT missions and from several ground-based surveys, and spectra and radial velocity measurements from the literature. Tools provided to work with these data include a transit ephemeris predictor, both for single planets and for observing locations, light curve viewing and normalization utilities, and a periodogram and phased light curve service. The archive can be accessed at http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu.

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