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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June 30, 2023 updates

Continental configuration controls the base-state water vapor greenhouse effect: lessons from half-land, half-water planets https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-023-06857-w

The β Pictoris system: Setting constraints on the planet and the disk structures at mid-IR wavelengths with NEAR
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa45143-22/aa45143-22.html

UV Spectral Characterization of Low-Mass Stars With AstroSat UVIT for Exoplanet Applications: The Case Study of HIP 23309
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16470

The TESS-Keck Survey. XVI. Mass Measurements for 12 Planets in Eight Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16587

The Metallicity Dimension of the Super Earth-Cold Jupiter Correlation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16691

June 29, 2023 updates

3D Numerical Model of the Envelope of a Hot Exoplanet Based on Spherical Coordinates
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772923040066

A close-in giant planet escapes engulfment by its star
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06029-0

The Lagrange Sunshade: Its Effectiveness in Combating Global Warming and Its Application to Earth Defense from Asteroid Impacts, Beaming Solar Energy for Terrestrial Use, Propelling Interstellar Migration by Laser-Photon Sails and Its Technosignature
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-076-04-0130/

Project Lyra: Another possible trajectory to 1I/’Oumuamua
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523003284

The GAPS programme at TNG. XLV. HI Balmer lines transmission spectroscopy and NLTE atmospheric modelling of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15776

June 27, 2023 updates

Meeting the Alien – An Introduction to Exosociology
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-41317-0

A Novel Approach to Interstellar Object Exploration Using Small Spacecraft
https://www.proquest.com/openview/a441feee10a7779afa967345cf113784/

A Transiting Super-Earth in the Radius Valley and an Outer Planet Candidate Around HD 307842
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acd751

Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer Emission Spectroscopy of WASP-33b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acda91

Dynamic reorientation of tidally locked bodies: Application to Pluto https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X23002832

Chemical Conditions on Hycean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13706

Activity time series of old stars from late F to early K VI. Exoplanet mass characterisation and detectability in radial velocity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14015

A Transiting Super-Earth in the Radius Valley and An Outer Planet Candidate Around HD 307842
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14655

On the mass of gas giant planets: Is Saturn a failed gas giant?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14740

Beyond Elevation: New Metrics to Quantify the Relief of Mountains and Surfaces of Any Terrestrial Body
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01600

June 26, 2023 Updates

Planet formation in the PDS 70 system – Constraining the atmospheric chemistry of PDS 70b and c
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/06/aa45619-22/aa45619-22.html

The effect of a small amount of hydrogen in the atmosphere of ultrahot magma-ocean planets: Atmospheric composition and escape
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/06/aa45763-22/aa45763-22.html

Tidal Evolution of Close-in Exoplanets and Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13220

Interstellar flyby scientific data downlink design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13550

Characterising a World Within the Hot Neptune Desert: Transit Observations of LTT 9779 b with HST WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.13645

Atmospheres as windows into sub-Neptune interiors: coupled chemistry and structure of hydrogen-silane-water envelopes
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1910/7207406?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Resolution of the horizon problem in the Alcubierre warp drive: computation I
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371599729_Resolution_of_the_horizon_problem_in_the_Alcubierre_warp_drive_computation_I

Resolution of the horizon problem in the Alcubierre warp drive: computation II
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371599500_Resolution_of_the_horizon_problem_in_the_Alcubierre_warp_drive_computation_II