Talk:Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey

Planet names and star references
The generally accepted naming convention for assigning new exoplanet names is to assign a lower-case letter appended to the star name. Letters are progressively assigned through the alphabet in the order of discovery within a star system. Certain research projects such as HAT append the letter to the HAT project catalog designation rather than use the a general catalog star designation. It is their planet discovery so I guess they can call the new planet whatever they like. However the parent star, unless it has not yet been included into an existing general catalog, such as GSC, should retain the prior catalog designation.

The other reason is that astronomy journal articles are now starting to refer to these objects with the lower-case letter appended. See the Astrophysical Journal article.

To attempt to resolve this inconsistency I took my little hatchet and fixed the TrES planet names to be consistent with the HAT names, using the lower case letter ‘b′. I will be fixing the exoplanet's star names to use the GSC or other general catalog names as the primary designation names in exoplanet articles or articles specifically about the exoplanet's star. Searches on the planet name without the lower case letter will be redirected to the exoplanet's star system article and this name shown as an alternate name for the star in the starbox. This is consistent with SIMBAD that also lists these project-specific star names.

If someone has a better way, or a reason to leave this issue unchanged please let me know.

Aldebaran66 (talk) 22:57, 23 April 2009 (UTC)


 * You miss the fact that the project-specific designations for stars are in many cases the most frequently-used designations. In addition for the TrES planets, while both forms (with and without the b) are used for the planet in the literature, the discoverers appear to prefer the form without the b. Essentially, going for the form with the b is saying that the discoverers don't have the right to name their planets how they want. Icalanise (talk) 22:18, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The rule is star plus letter. Discoverers (a machine) do not have the right to made op there own rules. The naming of exoplanets is already a mess by different names stars. Let's not make it worse than it already is.--Westermarck (talk) 12:03, 4 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Currently all the cited references in the articles in question use designations without the "b", so I think it's hard to argue that adding the "b" is not original research (however well intentioned). The literature may well be moving in the direction of adding the "b" (with or without a preceding space, though the "spaced" version seems to be the IAU-preferred form), but I think it's premature to change the TrES articles to reflect that, though the redirects are certainly required, and a mention of the alternate forms in the article may now be in order. — Aldaron • T/C 17:08, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

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