Exoplanet Data Explorer

<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
"We have retained the generous upper mass limit of 24 Jupiter masses in our definition of a “planet”, for the same reasons as in the Catalog: at the moment, any mass limit is arbitrary and will serve little practical function both  because of the sin i ambiguity in radial velocity masses and because of the lack of physical motivation.
The 13 Jupiter-mass distinction by the IAU Working Group is physically unmotivated for planets with rocky cores, and observationally problematic due to the sin i ambiguity. A useful theoretical and rhetorical distinction is to segregate brown dwarfs from  planets by their formation mechanism, but such a distinction is of little utility observationally."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
<p>The database was updated to include new exoplanets and possible exoplanets, using data from other archives such as the <a href="/facts/Astrophysics_Data_System/abKVsgvU">Astrophysics Data System</a>, <a href="/facts/ArXiv/H6EtgnBe">arXiv</a> and the <a href="/facts/NASA_Exoplanet_Archive/DzzwL3Qe">NASA Exoplanet Archive</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> The database stopped being updated in mid-2018 and is no longer actively maintained.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Extrasolar_Planets_Encyclopaedia/5xxGCLkJ">Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/NASA_Exoplanet_Archive/DzzwL3Qe">NASA Exoplanet Archive</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>The Exoplanet Orbit Database, Jason T Wright, Onsi Fakhouri, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Eunkyu Han, Ying Feng, John Asher Johnson, Andrew W. Howard, Jeff A. Valenti, Jay Anderson, Nikolai Piskunov <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5676" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5676</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets, R. P. Butler, J. T. Wright, G. W. Marcy, D. A Fischer, S. S. Vogt, C. G. Tinney, H. R. A. Jones, B. D. Carter, J. A. Johnson, C. McCarthy, A. J. Penny, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 646, Number 1, 2006 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607493" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607493</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>The Exoplanet Orbit Database, Jason T Wright, Onsi Fakhouri, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Eunkyu Han, Ying Feng, John Asher Johnson, Andrew W. Howard, Jeff A. Valenti, Jay Anderson, Nikolai Piskunov <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5676" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.5676</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Feng, Ying; Han, E.; Fakhouri, O.; Ford, E.B. (January 2013). "New Features of the Exoplanet Orbit Database at Exoplanets.org". American Astronomical Society. Bibcode:2013AAS...22134003F – via ResearchGate. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258738246_New_Features_of_the_Exoplanet_Orbit_Database_at_Exoplanetsorg" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258738246_New_Features_of_the_Exoplanet_Orbit_Database_at_Exoplanetsorg</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"Exoplanet Orbit Database | Exoplanet Data Explorer". Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230513055616/http://www.exoplanets.org/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20230513055616/http://www.exoplanets.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Exoplanet Data Explorer