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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May 19, 2023 updates

Grey wolf optimization and enhanced stochastic fractal search algorithm for exoplanet detection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04024-y

Detection of separatrices and chaotic seas based on orbit amplitudes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-023-10143-6

Life on the Edge: Bioprospecting Extremophiles for Astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41745-023-00382-9

On the behaviour of spin–orbit connection of exoplanets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01976-0

The mass of TOI-519 b: A close-in giant planet transiting a metal-rich mid-M dwarf
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pasj/psad031/7173171

A 1.55 R⨁ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715, an M4 star near the ecliptic South Pole
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1439/7172075

A spectroscopic thermometer: individual vibrational band spectroscopy with the example of OH in the atmosphere of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11071

May 18, 2023 updates

A temperate Earth-sized planet with tidal heating transiting an M6 star
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05934-8

Wormholes and energy conditions in f(R,T) gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07541

Variability of Known Exoplanet Host Stars Observed by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09687

Testing 2D temperature models in Bayesian retrievals of atmospheric properties from hot Jupiter phase curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10249

Detecting Exoplanets Closer to Stars with Moderate Spectral Resolution Integral-Field Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10362

Constraining the Thickness of the Atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 b from its JWST Secondary Eclipse Observation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10414

An In-Depth Look at TOI-3884b: a Super-Neptune Transiting a M4 Dwarf with Persistent Star Spot Crossings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04757

May 17, 2023 updates

Modeling of Absorption in the Hα Line for the Exoplanet WASP-52b https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772923030071

CHEOPS’s hunt for exocomets: photometric observations of 5 Vul
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1475/7165768

The influence of a close secondary star on the planetary formation: The case of γ cephei b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1455/7165766

Effective two-body scatterings around a massive object
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1442/7165780

Retrieval Survey of Metals in Six Ultrahot Jupiters: Trends in Chemistry, Rain-out, Ionization, and Atmospheric Dynamics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/accd65

Nanotechnology enabled radioprotectants to reduce space radiation-induced reactive oxidative species
https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wnan.1896

Close Encounters of the Interstellar Kind: Examining the Capture of Interstellar Objects in Near Earth Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08915

A hot super-Earth planet in the WASP-84 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09177

The Period Distribution of Hot Jupiters is Not Dependent on Host Star Metallicity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09488

Identification and Classification of Exoplanets Using Machine Learning Techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09596

Photochemical hazes dramatically alter temperature structure and atmospheric circulation in 3D simulations of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09654

Astrophysical parameters of M dwarfs with exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08893

May 16, 2023 updates

Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS⋆ TOI-615b, TOI-622b, and TOI-2641b
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/175607/

New Compound and Hybrid Binding Energy Sputter Model for Modeling Purposes in Agreement with Experimental Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acd056

Spectroscopic follow-up of Gaia exoplanet candidates: Impostor binary stars invade the Gaia DR3 astrometric exoplanet candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08623

Confirmation of sub-solar metallicity for WASP-77Ab from JWST thermal emission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07753

Observing exoplanets from Antarctica in two colours: Set-up and operation of ASTEP+
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08454

Effect of Centrifugal Force on Transmission Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08610

May 15, 2023 Updates

Traversable wormholes with double layer thin shells in quadratic gravity
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-023-03107-6

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – IX. Assessing the impact of clouds on atmospheric retrievals at mid-infrared wavelengths with a Venus-twin exoplanet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/05/aa45655-22/aa45655-22.html

Statistics of Magrathea exoplanets beyond the Main Sequence. Simulating the long-term evolution of circumbinary giant planets with TRES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07057

CHEOPS’s hunt for exocomets: photometric observations of 5 Vul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07578