Exploring-Exoplanet-Data
Introduction
I explore the currently available exoplanet data to answer the following questions posed in order of complexity:
- How are the planets distributed on the sky?
- Can we observe Kepler’s Third Law? Is it different for different discovery methods?
- Why do we observe so many Hot-Jupiters?
- Of all the exoplanets discovered to date, what type of stars do the planets typically orbit?
- How many planets are located in the habitable zone? Are any of them like Earth?
The data story is published on Medium at https://astroryan97.medium.com/analyzing-exo-planet-data-92b15b28da29
The PowerPoint presentaion is acessable at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LrU36GYGltyIL8HadLAqRdr1wYw7vKEueNNdCrleee8/edit?usp=sharing
Tools Used
- Jupyter Notebooks
- NumPy
- SciPy
- Matplotlib
- Pandas
- AstroPy
- Tableu
Data Source
The data is from the Open exoplanet catalogue which contains information on all ~3,300 exoplanets discovered to date. It is available on GitHub under the MIT license in CSV format.