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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December 13, 2021 Updates

The traditional approximation of rotation for rapidly rotating stars and planets II. Deformation and differential rotation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa41152-21/aa41152-21.html

Launch of a time machine
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407921022156

Terrestrial Planet Optical Phase Curves. I. Direct Measurements of the Earth
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3234

Minimal Data Fidelity for Stellar Feature and Companion Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3134

Giant planet imaged orbiting two massive stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03607-y

The Kepler IRIS Catalog: Image subtraction light curves for 9,150 stars in and around the open clusters NGC 6791 and NGC 6819
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05174

An Imaging Search for Post-Main-Sequence Planets of Sirius B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05234

An Integrative Analysis of the HD 219134 Planetary System and the Inner Solar System: Extending DYNAMITE with Enhanced Orbital Dynamical Stability Criteria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05337

Near-infrared transmission spectrum of TRAPPIST-1 h using Hubble WFC3 G141 observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05510

BEBOP II: Sensitivity to sub-Saturn circumbinary planets using radial-velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05652

December 10, 2021 updates

Probable detection of an eruptive filament from a superflare on a solar-type star
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01532-8

The winds of young, Solar-type stars in Coma Berenices and Hercules-Lyra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3557/6458363

Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/planetary-systems-a-very-short-introduction-9780198841128

PlanetEvidence: Planet or Noise?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac174e

Navigation and star identification for an interstellar mission
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521006421

Final Report for SAG 22: A Target Star Archive for Exoplanet Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04517

Effect of clouds on emission spectra for Super Venus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04587

Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04663

The Transit Timing and Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter HAT-P-37b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04724

Atmospheric mass loss and stellar wind effects in young and old systems I: comparative 3D study of TOI-942 and TOI-421 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04815

Atmospheric mass loss and stellar wind effects in young and old systems II: Is TOI-942 the past of TOI-421 system?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04832

Planet-planet scattering in presence of a companion star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05012

HyDRo: Atmospheric Retrieval of Rocky Exoplanets in Thermal Emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05059

The Terrestrial Planet Formation around M Dwarfs: In-situ, Inward Migration or Reversed Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05075

December 9, 2021 updates

A wide-orbit giant planet in the high-mass b Centauri binary system
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04124-8

Kepler-223 resonance holds information about turbulence during the gas-disk phase
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa42176-21/aa42176-21.html

A Wide Planetary Mass Companion Discovered through the Citizen Science Project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2499

Exoplanets in the Galactic context: Planet occurrence rates in the thin disk, thick disk and stellar halo of Kepler stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03927

A hot Mars-sized exoplanet transiting an M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03958

Geoastronomy: Rocky planets as the Lavosier-Lomonosov Bridge from the non-living to the living world
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04309

December 8, 2021 updates

Auto-RSM: An automated parameter-selection algorithm for the RSM map exoplanet detection algorithm
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa41446-21/aa41446-21.html

Transit Timings Variations in the three-planet system: TOI-270
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3483/6454033

Stellar Surface Inhomogeneities as a Potential Source of the Atmospheric Signal Detected in the K2-18b Transmission Spectrum
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2824

Mining the Ultra-Hot Skies of HAT-P-70b: Detection of a Profusion of Neutral and Ionized Species
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03292

Automation Of Transiting Exoplanet Detection, Identification and Habitability Assessment Using Machine Learning Approaches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03298

The Ice Coverage of Earth-like Planets Orbiting FGK Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03372

The California Legacy Survey III. On The Shoulders of (Some) Giants: The Relationship between Inner Small Planets and Outer Massive Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03399

New constraints on the future evaporation of the young exoplanets in the V1298 Tau system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03739

December 7, 2021 updates

Unbound Close Stellar Encounters in the Solar Neighborhood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00852

Astrobiology as a Driver to Connect India’s Public, Scientists, and Space Missions
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/space.2021.0041

Airbus will build ESA’s Ariel exoplanet satellite
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Airbus_will_build_ESA_s_Ariel_exoplanet_satellite

Temporal variation of planetary iron as a driver of evolution
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/51/e2109865118

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS) – III. Warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters: a weak occurrence correlation, but with a strong architecture-composition link
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa38554-20/aa38554-20.html

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS) – IV. Planetary systems around low-mass stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa40390-21/aa40390-21.html

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS) VI. Introducing KOBE: Kepler Observes Bern Exoplanets – Theoretical perspectives on the architecture of planetary systems: Peas in a pod
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/12/aa40761-21/aa40761-21.html

Implementation of disequilibrium chemistry to spectral retrieval code ARCiS and application to 16 exoplanet transmission spectra – Indication of disequilibrium chemistry for HD 209458b and WASP-39b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/12/aa41548-21/aa41548-21.html

TOI-1431b/MASCARA-5b: A Highly Irradiated Ultrahot Jupiter Orbiting One of the Hottest and Brightest Known Exoplanet Host Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac224e

The Peculiar Chemical Pattern of the WASP-160 Binary System: Signatures of Planetary Formation and Evolution?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac25ef

Deep Exploration of the Planets HR 8799 b, c, and d with Moderate-resolution Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac273a

How to decode interstellar messages
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521006263

The TESS Faint Star Search: 1,617 TOIs from the TESS Primary Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02176

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper III: One Wide-Orbit Planet And Two Stellar Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02414

Non-Trivial Oblique Spin Equilibria of Super-Earths in Multi-planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02482

Investigation of the upper atmosphere in ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b with high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02546

Cronomoons: origin, dynamics, and light-curve features of ringed exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02687

Potential Habitability as a Stellar Property: Effects of Model Uncertainties and Measurement Precision
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02745

Extreme ultraviolet and X-ray driven photochemistry of gaseous exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.02942

On the Stability of Additional Moons Orbiting Kepler-1625 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03248