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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April 07, 2023 updates

Orbital precession in short-period hot jupiter exoplanet systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad982/7110414

HST PanCET Program: A flat optical transmission spectrum for the Hot Jupiter WASP-101b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1010/7110429

uGMRT observations of the hot-Saturn WASP 69b: Radio-Loud Exoplanet-Exomoon Survey II (RLEES II)
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1027/7110432

The Runaway Greenhouse Effect on Hycean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02698

Upper limits on transmitter rate of extragalactic civilizations placed by Breakthrough Listen observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02756

Hyades Member K2-136c: The Smallest Planet in an Open Cluster with a Precisely Measured Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02779

MOA-2022-BLG-249Lb: Nearby microlensing super-Earth planet detected from high-cadence surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.02815

High-resolution Emission Spectroscopy of the Ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b: Little Variation in Day- and Nightside Emission Line Contrasts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03248

April 04, 2023 updates

Thoughts on the Biological Processes of Life
https://www.opastpublishers.com/peer-review/thoughts-on-the-biological-processes-of-life-5335.html

Coherent radio bursts from known M-dwarf planet-host YZ Ceti
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01914-0

Heating and ionization by non-thermal electrons in the upper atmospheres of water-rich exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/04/aa45766-22/aa45766-22.html

Pathways of survival for exomoons and inner exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/04/aa45533-22/aa45533-22.html

Converting the sub-Jovian desert of exoplanets to a savanna with TESS, PLATO and Ariel
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad978/7100977

Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00568

The X-ray activity of F stars with hot Jupiters: KELT-24 versus WASP-18
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00854

Eight exoplanet candidates in SAO survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01076

Direct discovery of the inner exoplanet in the HD206893 system. Evidence for deuterium burning in a planetary-mass companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04867

Earth as an Exoplanet. II. Earth’s Time-variable Thermal Emission and Its Atmospheric Seasonality of Bioindicators
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05414

The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I: A Decade of Kepler Planet Host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00071

Towards 3D Retrieval of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Assessing Thermochemical Equilibrium Estimation Methods
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00073

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — A deep transfer learning method to determine Teff and [M/H] of target stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00224

Detection of TiO and VO in the atmosphere of WASP-121b and Evidence for its temporal variation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00461