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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November 7, 2023 updates

The GAPS programme at TNG – XLVIII. The unusual formation history of V1298 Tau
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa44752-22/aa44752-22.html

Gaia Search for (sub)stellar Companions of Exoplanet Hosts
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3196/7379625

Exploring Climate with Obliquity in a Variable-eccentricity Earth-like World
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0373

A Blind Search for Transit Depth Variability with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02154

On the likely magnesium-iron silicate dusty tails of catastrophically evaporating rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02477

Evidence for Low-Level Dynamical Excitation in Near-Resonant Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02478

The evaporation of planetary atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02965

Fully time-dependent cloud formation from a non-equilibrium gas-phase in exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03244

CHEOPS observations of KELT-20 b/MASCARA-2 b: an aligned orbit and signs of variability from a reflective dayside
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03264

Tidal dissipation in stably stratified and semi-convective regions of rotating giant planets: incorporating Coriolis forces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03273

November 6, 2023 Updates

Chasing Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/article-abstract/122/847/314/197487/Chasing-Extraterrestrial-Intelligence

Policing Space Crimes
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-39912-1_7

A compact multi-planet system transiting HIP 29442 (TOI-469) discovered by TESS and ESPRESSO
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa47240-23/aa47240-23.html

Hidden Companions to Intermediate-mass Stars. XII. Discovery of a 1.8 M⊙, 1.3 au Companion to Delta Serpentis A
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad0782

Hidden Companions to Intermediate-mass Stars. XIII. Discovery of a 0.80 M⊙, 4.3 au Companion to HIP 7298
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad08b4

Hycean Exoplanets as Targets for Technosignature Detection: A Case Study of K2-18 b in the 3–10 GHz Band
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad08b2

Planetary perturbers: Flaring star-planet interactions in Kepler and TESS
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3398/7342484?searchresult=1

Binary planet formation through tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01618

November 3, 2023 updates

SOLES. VII. The Spin–Orbit Alignment of WASP-106 b, a Warm Jupiter along the Kraft Break
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0131

Rogue worlds meet the dark side: revealing terrestrial-mass primordial black holes with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00751

Potential Melting of Extrasolar Planets by Tidal Dissipation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01187

Evolution of helium triplet transits of close-in gas giants orbiting K-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01313

Search for the wide-orbit massive companion of XO-7b in the follow-up radial-velocity and transit-timing data: no significant clues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01402

November 2, 2023 updates

Wormholes and energy conditions in Rastall-Rainbow Gravity
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3480396/v1

Non-coplanar gravitational lenses and the “communication bridge”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15957

A compact multi-planet system transiting HIP 29442 (TOI-469) discovered by TESS and ESPRESSO – Radial velocities lead to the detection of transits with low signal-to-noise ratio
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa47240-23/aa47240-23.html

Refraction of Line and Continuum Light in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aceaf1

Workshop Summary: Exoplanet Orbits and Dynamics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acff88

CCD imagers for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite from benchtop to space environment
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20230139

Stellar spectral-type (mass) dependence of the dearth of close-in planets around fast-rotating stars. Architecture of Kepler confirmed single-exoplanet systems compared to star-planet evolution models https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00108

Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus on Accuracy and Orbital Periods
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00238

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). V. The evolution of hot Jupiters revealed by the age distribution of their host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00305

Outcomes of Planetary Collisions: Importance of Gravity and Material Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00516

Keck and Hubble Observations Show That MOA-2008-BLG-379Lb Is a Super-Jupiter Orbiting an M Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00627

VaTEST III: Validation of 8 Potential Super-Earths from TESS Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00688