Plots of planetary system properties

This plot shows the discovery rate of the known transiting planets. For the discovery date of each planet, I have taken the time at which a refereed journal article was published giving its sky position, orbital ephemerides and proof of planetary nature. If the paper appeared on the arXiv preprint server first, I have taken that date instead.

The black line shows the cumulative number of known transiting planets versus year. The lower coloured lines show the individual contributions of specific groups or data sources (those which have discovered 5 or more transiting planets).

The plot is also available here as an encapsulated postscript file for easy inclusion in a talk or presentation.

This plot shows the sky positions (right ascension and declination) of the known transiting planets.

The scattered red points in the Northern hemisphere are due to the HAT project, and the blue points predominantly covering the Southern hemisphere come from the SuperWASP consortium. The big concentration of light-green points in the top left shows the Kepler field, the darker green patches on the ecliptic plane are from the K2 mission, and the smaller groups of magenta points near zero declination are from the CoRoT satellite. The grey line shows where declination is zero and the dashed grey line indicates the position of the galactic plane.

The plot is also available here as an encapsulated postscript file for easy inclusion in a talk or presentation.

This plot shows the masses and radii of all known transiting planets and their host stars. The transiting planets are the main sea of points in the plot, the stars are the diagonal line of points in the top-right, and the brown dwarfs form a sparse bridge between them. Objects analysed in the Homogeneous Studies papers are shown in blue and the remaining objects are shown in red. Solar system bodies are also plotted for reference, using green circles.

The plot is also available here as an encapsulated postscript file for easy inclusion in a talk or presentation.