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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February 01, 2023 updates

Watch distant worlds dance around their sun
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/01/watch-distant-worlds-dance-around-their-sun/

Mission Architecture to Reach and Operate at the Focal Region of the Solar Gravitational Lens
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35493

Bend-Forming of Large Electrostatically Actuated Space Structures
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Bend_Forming_of_Large_Electrostatically_Actuated_Space_Structures/

Occurrence rate of hot Jupiters orbiting red giant stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa44180-22/aa44180-22.html

YunMa: Enabling Spectral Retrievals of Exoplanetary Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13708

A New Definition of Exoplanet Habitability: Introducing the
Photosynthetic Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13836

January 31, 2023 updates

Statistical Correlations of Exoplanet Eccentricities
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vs305b6

A deep-learning search for technosignatures from 820 nearby stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01872-z

Propulsion and Power from Cylindrical and Spherical Magneto-inertial Fusion Plasmas
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-0554

Direct driving of simulated planetary jets by upscale energy transfer https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa44278-22/aa44278-22.html

The elements of life: A biocentric tour of the periodic table https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065291122000339

Overcoming Inverse-square Law of Gravitation and Luminosity for Interstellar Hyperspace Navigation by Celestial Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11130

Wavelet-enabled Star Classification: A Deep Learning Approach for Identifying Binary and Exoplanet Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13115

The TIME Table: Rotation and Ages of Cool Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12109

Hot exoplanetary atmospheres in 3D
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12779

A Machine Learning approach for correcting radial velocities using physical observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12872

The Hubble/STIS Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectrum of HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13025

Binary microlensing with plasma environment — Star and planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13442

January 30 2023 Updates

Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ 1002
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa44991-22/aa44991-22.html

A kinematically detected planet candidate in a transition disk
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa45381-22/aa45381-22.html

Effects of turbulent diffusion and back-reaction on the dust distribution around two resonant planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad313/7008513?redirectedFrom=fulltext

The Dynamics of Co-orbital Giant Exomoons – Applications for the Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b Satellite Systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad314/7008512?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Systematic uncertainties in the characterisation of helium-dominated metal-polluted white dwarf atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad282/7008521?redirectedFrom=fulltext

The Gaia-Kepler-TESS-Host Stellar Properties Catalog: Uniform Physical Parameters for 7993 Host Stars and 9324 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11338

Improving circumbinary planet detections by fitting their binary’s apsidal precession
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11372

Electrostatic Repulsion of Dust from Planetary Surfaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11609

January 27, 2023 updates

The McDonald Accelerating Stars Survey: Architecture of the Ancient Five-planet Host System Kepler-444
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca88c

Comparative study of nearly-grazing and fully-grazing exoplanet system parameters derived with TESS and ground-based instruments
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20220075

The First Circumbinary Planet Discovered with Radial Velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10794

The unusual M-dwarf Warm Jupiter TOI-1899~b: Refinement of orbital and planetary parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10837

The transmission spectrum of the potentially rocky planet L 98-59 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10866

Multibeam Blind Search of Targeted SETI Observations toward 33 Exoplanet Systems with FAST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10890

From exo-Earths to exo-Venuses — Flux and Polarization Signatures of Reflected Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11314

January 26, 2023 updates

EM Propulsive Force Mode l using Rabi Successive Filtering for Warp Speed Drive
https://journal.eeaat.or.th/home/images/v8n2/1_Final_EM-Propulsive-Force-Mode-l.pdf

Technosignatures: Frameworks for Their Assessment
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acaca0

Multi-epoch detections of the extended atmosphere and transmission spectra of KELT-9b with a 1.5 m telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10406

The Dynamics of Co-orbital Giant Exomoons — Applications for the Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b Satellite Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10730