TEPCat: The Transiting Extrasolar Planet Catalogue
Abstract
Transiting extrasolar planets are extraordinarily valuable for understanding the characteristics and formation of planets, because they are the only exoplanets whose physical and orbital properties can be measured to high precision. Thousands are now known, and it is important to maintain a database of them for use by the scientific community. TEPCat performs this task: it is a critical compilation of the physical and observable properties of the known transiting planetary systems. This work introduces the motivation for TEPCat, its scope, contents, and implementation. Example plots of interesting quantities are constructed. The classification of planets and of the eclipse features in their light curves is discussed. TEPCat is maintained and freely available online at https://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/jkt/tepcat/
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.23102,
title = {TEPCat: The Transiting Extrasolar Planet Catalogue},
author = {John Southworth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.23102},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Universe as part of the special issue "The Royal Road: Eclipsing Binaries and Transiting Exoplanets, 2nd Edition" edited by Dr. Tam\'as Borkovits and Dr. Szilard Csizmadia. This article is the author-accepted version and is 23 pages, incuding 4 tables and 9 colour figures