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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March 27, 2023 Updates

Near, Far, Wherever We Are: Space Exploration Urgently Needs an Ethics-Informed Planning Revolution
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-023-00135-x

The Hubble/STIS near-ultraviolet transmission spectrum of HD 189733 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45064-22/aa45064-22.html

A puffy polar planet – The low density, hot Jupiter TOI-640 b is on a polar orbit
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45301-22/aa45301-22.html

An automatic assisted drill system for sampling deep layer regolith of extraterrestrial celestial bodies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523001455

Acceleration of 1I/`Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13698

Thermal Emission from the Hot Jupiter WASP-103b in J and Ks Bands
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13732

Implications of evaporative cooling by H2 for 1I/`Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13861

March 24, 2023 updates

The JWST Early-release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 μm Spectrum of the Planetary-mass Companion VHS 1256–1257 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb04a

MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb: Cool Sub-Saturn-mass Planet within Predicted Desert https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbcc8

Dynamical Evolution of Closely Packed Multiple Planetary Systems Subject to Atmospheric Mass Loss
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acc070

Observation and feature measurements of cloud and haze in exoplanet atmosphere based on transmission spectra
https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HSET/article/view/5738

A Catalogue of Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Codes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12925

Coronal X-Ray Emission from Nearby, Low-Mass, Exoplanet Host Stars Observed by the MUSCLES and Mega-MUSCLES HST Treasury Survey Projects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12929

Tentative detection of titanium oxide in the atmosphere of WASP-69 b with a 4m ground-based telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13202

An extreme test case for planet formation: a close-in Neptune orbiting an ultracool star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13321

March 23, 2023 updates

Acceleration of 1I/‘Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05687-w

A New Mission Will Search for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri
https://www.universetoday.com/160625/a-new-mission-will-search-for-habitable-planets-at-alpha-centauri

The high-albedo, low polarization disk around HD 114082 that harbors a Jupiter-sized transiting planet – Constraints from VLT/SPHERE completed with TESS, Gaia, and radial velocities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/04/aa44380-22/aa44380-22.html

PySME – Spectroscopy Made Easier
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa44482-22/aa44482-22.html

The Effect of Metallicity on the Nonequilibrium Abundance of Hydrogen-dominated Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb54e

Rescue and Recovery as a Theological Principle, and a Key to Morality in Extraterrestrial Species
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/zygo.12879

Dark Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12129

The Masses of a Sample of Radial-Velocity Exoplanets with Astrometric Measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12409

March 22, 2023 updates

Dynamical masses of two young transiting sub-Neptunes orbiting HD 63433 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45397-22/aa45397-22.html

From exo-Earths to exo-Venuses: Flux and polarization signatures of reflected light
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa43190-22/aa43190-22.html

Discovery of a massive giant planet with extreme density around a sub-giant star TOI-4603
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11841

Forming super-Mercuries: The role of stellar abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11948

Comparing Apples with Apples: Robust Detection Limits for Exoplanet High-Contrast Imaging in the Presence of non-Gaussian Noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12030

March 21, 2023 updates

Astronauts that hibernate on long spaceflights is not just for sci-fi. We could test it in 10 years.
https://www.space.com/astronaut-hibernation-trials-possible-in-decade

Activity of TRAPPIST-1 Analogs
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773722110068

A full transit of v2 Lupi d and the search for an exomoon in its Hill sphere with CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa44790-22/aa44790-22.html

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Nearby Stars’ Close Encounters with the Brightest Earth Transmissions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acc1a1

TOI-1695 b: A Water World Orbiting an Early-M Dwarf in the Planet Radius Valley
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbdfd

Direct Imaging Explorations for Companions around Mid–Late M Stars from the Subaru/IRD Strategic Program
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbf37

Decomposition of Benzene during Impacts in N2-dominated Atmospheres https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acbd48

Bio-techno-signature Monitoring and Communication Guideposts for Extraterrestrial Life
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acc4b8