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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July 14 2023 Updates

Statistics of Magrathea exoplanets beyond the main sequence – Simulating the long-term evolution of circumbinary giant planets with TRES
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa45843-23/aa45843-23.html

Trade-offs in high-contrast integral field spectroscopy for exoplanet detection and characterisation – Young gas giants in emission
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa45169-22/aa45169-22.html

NTPSS-vPower: A model for system simulation of a nuclear thermal propulsion system
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306454923003389

Transmission spectroscopy of the lowest-density gas giant: metals and a potential extended outflow in HAT-P-67b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06356

Where are the Water Worlds?: Self-Consistent Models of Water-Rich Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06508

Information Gain as a Tool for Assessing Biosignature Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06509

TOI 4201 b and TOI 5344 b: Discovery of Two Transiting Giant Planets Around M Dwarf Stars and Revised Parameters for Three Others
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06809

TOI-4201: An Early M-dwarf Hosting a Massive Transiting Jupiter Stretching Theories of Core-Accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06880

July 13, 2023 Updates

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – A sub-Neptunian mass planet in the habitable zone of HN Lib
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa46276-23/aa46276-23.html

An alternative formation scenario for uranium-rich giants: Engulfing a earth-like planet
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2097/7223473?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Homogeneous search for helium in the atmosphere of 11 gas giant exoplanets with SPIRou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05580

WHFast512: A symplectic N-body integrator for planetary systems optimized with AVX512 instructions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05683

A sub-Saturn Mass-Radius Desert for Planets with Equilibrium Temperature Less than 600 K
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05836

Exponential distance relation (aka Titius-Bode law) in extra solar planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06070

ExoGemS Detection of a Metal Hydride in an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06242

July 12, 2023 Updates

Accreting luminous low-mass planets escape from migration traps at pressure bumps
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2059/7222908?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Modelling the effect of 3D temperature and chemistry on the cross-correlation signal of transiting ultra-hot Jupiters: A study of 5 chemical species on WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04931

Composition constraints of the TRAPPIST-1 planets from their formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04989

Confirmation of an He I evaporating atmosphere around the 650-Myr-old sub-Neptune HD235088 b (TOI-1430 b) with CARMENES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05191

TESS discovers a super-Earth orbiting the M dwarf star TOI-1680
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05368

July 10, 2023 Updates

Research for an Early-Stage Development of the First Interstellar CubeSat Powered by Solar Sailing Technology
https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/isss2023/docs/presentations/05_June_5_Fil.pdf

Optimization of Photon-sail Trajectories to Alpha Centauri Using Evolutionary Neurocontrol
https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/isss2023/docs/presentations/23_June_7_Dachwald.pdf

Photon-sail trajectories towards exoplanet Proxima b using heteroclinic connections
https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/isss2023/docs/presentations/25_June_7_Rotmans.pdf

Extraterrestrial Impacts Creating Architectures for Life
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41745-023-00397-2

The extremely high albedo of LTT 9779 b revealed by CHEOPS – An ultrahot Neptune with a highly metallic atmosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa46117-23/aa46117-23.html

The mass of gas giant planets: Is Saturn a failed gas giant?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa46850-23/aa46850-23.html

Chasing extreme planetary architectures – I. HD 196885 Ab, a super-Jupiter dancing with two stars?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa44502-22/aa44502-22.html

Power of wavelets in analyses of transit and phase curves in the presence of stellar variability and instrumental noise II. Accuracy of the transit parameters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa43017-21/aa43017-21.html

Attitude control for a full-scale flexible electric solar wind sail spacecraft on heliocentric and displaced non-Keplerian orbits
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523003569

TOI-1859b: A 64 Day Warm Jupiter on an Eccentric and Misaligned Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acd93d