/Exploring-Exoplanet-Data

DATA 607 Final Project

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Exploring-Exoplanet-Data

Introduction

I explore the currently available exoplanet data to answer the following questions posed in order of complexity:

  1. How are the planets distributed on the sky?
  2. Can we observe Kepler’s Third Law? Is it different for different discovery methods?
  3. Why do we observe so many Hot-Jupiters?
  4. Of all the exoplanets discovered to date, what type of stars do the planets typically orbit?
  5. 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.

https://github.com/OpenExoplanetCatalogue/oec_tables