The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program: Data, Tools, and Usage
Abstract
The NASA Exoplanet Archive and the Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program service are two widely used resources for the exoplanet community. The NASA Exoplanet Archive provides a complete and accurate accounting of exoplanetary systems published by NASA missions and by the community in the refereed literature. In anticipation of continued exponential growth in the number of exoplanetary systems, and the increasing complexity in our characterization of these systems, the NASA Exoplanet Archive has restructured its primary tables and interfaces, as well as extending and standardizing their modes of access. The Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program service provides the exoplanet community with a venue for coordinating and sharing follow-up and precursor data for exoplanets, their host stars, and stars that might eventually be targets for future planet searches, and recently reached one million files uploaded by the community. In this paper we describe the updates to our data holdings, functionality, accessibility, and tools, as well as future priorities for these two services.
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@article{arxiv.2506.03299,
title = {The NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program: Data, Tools, and Usage},
author = {Jessie L. Christiansen and Douglas L. McElroy and Marcy Harbut and David R. Ciardi and Megan Crane and John Good and Kevin K. Hardegree-Ullman and Aurora Y. Kesseli and Michael B. Lund and Meca Lynn and Ananda Muthiar and Ricky Nilsson and Toba Oluyide and Michael Papin and Amalia Rivera and Melanie Swain and Nicholas D. Susemiehl and Raymond Tam and Julian van Eyken and Charles Beichman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.03299},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
18 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables. Replaces Akeson et al. (2013) as the citation for the NASA Exoplanet Archive and Exoplanet Follow-up Observing Program (ExoFOP), accepted in PSJ