Interstellar Updates

 

These are items of interest to the interstellar exploration community that we’ve found in our quest for information that will help us advance toward our goals.  If you know of anything we’ve overlooked, or any sources of such information we should monitor, or if you would like to be added to our IRG-updates mailing list and receive these updates in you email every weekday, please send that information to info@irg.space.

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March 29, 2024 updates

TOI-1199 b and TOI-1273 b: Two new transiting hot Saturns detected and characterized with SOPHIE and TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa48288-23/aa48288-23.html

Planets observed with CHEOPS – Two super-Earths orbiting the red dwarf star TOI-776
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa43838-22/aa43838-22.html

Venus Cloud Sample Return Concept for Astrobiology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117724003004

High-resolution Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of a Temperate Sub-Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18891

Feasibility of High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy for Low-Velocity Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18894

ATMOSPHERIX: III- Estimating the C/O ratio and molecular dynamics at the limbs of WASP-76 b with SPIRou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19434

The phase curve of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-167b as seen by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19468

March 28, 2024 updates

The Exosphere of an Venus-Like Exoplanet
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024hst..prop17600V

MIRI MRS Observations of β Pictoris. I. The Inner Dust, the Planet, and the Gas
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2354

On the dynamical evolution of two-planet extrasolar systems orbiting one of the stars of wide binaries separated by less than 3000 au
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103524001271

Control of the Optical Wavefront in Phase and Amplitude by a Single LC-SLM in a Stellar Coronagraph Aiming for Direct Exoplanet Imaging
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/11/4/300

On the properties of free floating planets originating in circumbinary planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18481

Achieving Quantum Limits of Exoplanet Detection and Localization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17988

March 27, 2024 updates

Identifying Exoplanet Candidates Using WaveCeptionNet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad298f

A Formally Motivated Retrieval Framework Applied to the High-resolution Transmission Spectrum of HD 189733 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2c8b

The instability mechanism of compact multiplanet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17928

A Perfect Tidal Storm: HD 104067 Planetary Architecture Creating an Incandescent World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17062

Vortex Fiber Nulling for Exoplanet Observations: First Direct Detection of M Dwarf Companions around HIP 21543, HIP 94666, and HIP 50319
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17295

A possibly solar metallicity atmosphere escaping from HAT-P-32b revealed by Hα and He absorption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17325

Interior Controls on the Habitability of Rocky Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17630

Looking For Timing Variations in the Transits of 16 Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17690

March 26, 2024 updates

Helium in Exoplanet Exospheres: Orbital and Stellar Influences
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15575

Stellar obliquity measurements of six gas giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15631

Parallax Effect in Microlensing Events due to Free-Floating Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16089

Follow-up LOFAR observations of the τ Boötis exoplanetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16392

Precise characterisation of HD 15337 with CHEOPS: a laboratory for planet formation and evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16621

Direct detection and characterization of exoplanets using imaging Fourier transform spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15231

March 25, 2024 Updates

Biogenic sulfur gases as biosignatures on temperate sub-Neptune waterworlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14805

A reanalysis of the LHS 1140 b atmosphere observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae823/7634375?searchresult=1

Phase diagram and thermo-elastic properties of Fe-S compounds up to 15 GPa: Thermodynamic constraints on the core of medium-sized telluric planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X24001092