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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January 16, 2023 Updates

An analysis of interstellar exploration focused on propulsion technologies
https://jhss.scholasticahq.com/article/66203

The W&T Realpolitik Scenario and Contact With Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Reply to Wright et al.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964622000625

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Origin of Life Scenarios
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/9/1/42

Supernovae may create interstellar meteorites
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407923000556

The smallest planetary drivers of white dwarf pollution
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad130/6986278?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Lifting the Veil: Alien planets are shrouded in hazes that hide clues to their makeup. Lab experiments could help clear the view
https://www.science.org/content/article/lifting-veil-astronomers-conjure-hazes-obscure-alien-worlds

A Mixed Stirring Mechanism for Debris Discs with Giant and Dwarf Planetary Perturbations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05265

Leaky Dust Traps: How Fragmentation impacts Dust Filtering by Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05505

January 13, 2023 updates

NASA starts designing futuristic space telescope to hunt for alien Earths
https://www.space.com/habitable-worlds-observatory-first-glimpse

NASA unveils initial plan for multibillion-dollar telescope to find life on alien worlds
https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-unveils-initial-plan-multibillion-dollar-telescope-find-life-alien-worlds

Formation of rocky super-earths from a narrow ring of planetesimals
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01850-5

Rotation Periods, Inclinations, and Obliquities of Cool Stars Hosting Directly Imaged Substellar Companions: Spin-Orbit Misalignments are Common
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04692

A Two-limb Explanation for the Optical-to-infrared Transmission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-32Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04812

Space environment and magnetospheric Poynting fluxes of the exoplanet τ Boötis b https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05015

Venus, Phosphine and the Possibility of Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05160

Observability of silicates in volatile atmospheres of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05190

January 12, 2023 updates

Alcubierre warp drive in spherical coordinates with some matter configurations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11091-5

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. III. An Eccentric Warm Jupiter Supports a Period−Eccentricity Relation for Giant Planets Transiting Evolved Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca670

TOI-1075 b: A Dense, Massive, Ultra-short-period Hot Super-Earth Straddling the Radius Gap
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9c5b

Asteroseismic determination of fundamental parameters for exoplanet host stars with deep learning
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221313372300001X

The Similar Seven: A set of very-alike exoplanets to test correlations between system parameters and atmospheric properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04174

A JWST transmission spectrum of a nearby Earth-sized exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04191

Detecting exomoons from radial velocity measurements of self-luminous planets: application to observations of HR 7672 B and future prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04206

A Possible Converter to Denoise the Images of Exoplanet Candidates through Machine Learning Techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04292

Conclusive evidence for a population of water-worlds around M-dwarfs remains elusive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04321

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. A long-period planet around GJ 1151 measured with CARMENES and HARPS-N data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04442

January 11, 2023 updates

Mapping the structure of the planetary 2:1 mean motion resonance: the TOI-216, K2-24, and HD27894 systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-022-10112-5

Meteorite Parent Body Aqueous Alteration Simulations of Interstellar Residue Analogs
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00274

Exoplanet Watch
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-watch/about-exoplanet-watch/overview/

55 Cancri e’s occultation captured with CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa44894-22/aa44894-22.html

Photosynthetic Fluorescence from Earthlike Planets around Sunlike and Cool Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aca3a5

A Second Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of the M Dwarf, TOI-700
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03617

Emergent Spectral Fluxes of Hot Jupiters: an Abrupt Rise in Day Side Brightness Temperature Under Strong Irradiation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03639

A Spectroscopic Analysis of a Sample of K2 Planet-Host Stars: Stellar Parameters, Metallicities and Planetary Radii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03961

A deep radius valley revealed by Kepler short cadence observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04062

January 10, 2023 updates

Refined MagSail thrust model for preliminary mission design and trajectory optimization
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S127096382300010X

The Abundance of Belatedly Habitable Planets and Ambiguities in Definitions of the Continuously Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02961

Optical Properties of Organic Hazes in Water-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres: Implications for Observations with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02745

A JWST NIRSpec phase curve for WASP-121b: dayside emission strongest eastward of the substellar point and nightside conditions conducive to cloud formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03209

Low-order wavefront control using a Zernike sensor through Lyot coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging: II. Concurrent operation with stroke minimization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03242

A rocky exoplanet classification method and its application to calculating surface pressure and surface temperature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03348

Twenty-five years of exoplanet discoveries: The exoplanet hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03442

Redox state and interior structure control on the long-term habitability of stagnant-lid planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03466

The exoplanetary magnetosphere extension in Sun-like stars based on the solar wind — solar UV relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01554