This chapter has relatively few scripts, since most of the results presented in this chapter are just plots of data. Techniques for plotting data from the Workbook datasets are covered in the Computational Toolkit section of the Chapter 1 Workbook, and examples are provided in the solution scripts (available to instructors from the CUP web site under the Resource tab) and in the collection of Python Example Scripts [**LINK**].
ProcessExoplanets.py : Utility script to read exoplanet and parent star data from the California Carnegie Planet Search tables, and compute various derived quantities and simplified tables for plotting. ReadExtrasolar.py : This reads the tables of planet and star characteristics produced by ProcessExoplanets.py, and makes scatter plots of properties similar to those shown in the text. The Workbook Datasets for Chapter 1 contain the data current as of 2010, but if you want the most up-to-date version in this rapidly changing field, you should download the latest from the California Carnegie web site, and process it using ProcessExoplanets.py