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 3, 2021 updates

Polluted white dwarfs reveal exotic mantle rock types on exoplanets in our solar neighborhood
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26403-8

Confirmation of Iron Emission Lines and Nondetection of TiO on the Dayside of KELT-9b with MAROON-X
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac30e1

A Search for Analogs of KIC 8462852 (Boyajian’s Star): A Second List of Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01208

The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b has a Polar Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01295

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Diagnostic capabilities of strong K I lines for photosphere and chromosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01552

TOI-2257 b: A highly eccentric long-period sub-Neptune transiting a nearby M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01749

The Influence of 10 Unique Chemical Elements in Shaping the Distribution of Kepler Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01753

November 2, 2021 updates

Metasurface Laser Lightsails
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9577132

Antimatter as an Energy Source
https://www.ijres.org/papers/Volume-9/Issue-10/Ser-3/I09105055.pdf

Changes in Blood Biomarkers of Brain Injury and Degeneration Following Long-Duration Spaceflight
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2784623

A Search for Planetary Metastable Helium Absorption in the V1298 Tau System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1bb0

Jules Verne’s Formulation of the Fermi Question
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac3428

Oxygen controls on magmatism in rocky exoplanets
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/45/e2110427118

The “Breaking The Chains” migration model for super-Earths formation: the effect of collisional fragmentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00059

Stellar Wind Effect on the Atmospheric Escape of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00471

Hiding in plain sight: observing planet-starspot crossings with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00828

November 1, 2021 Updates

Updates Monday 11/01/21

No Redetections of blc1 in 39 hr of Reobservation Campaigns of Proxima Centauri
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac33b2

An approximate superposition method to obtain a planet’s orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/ac2e70

Boundary Layer Circumplanetary Accretion: How Fast Could an Unmagnetized Planet Spin Up through Its Disk?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1941

Zodiacal exoplanets in time (ZEIT) XIII: Planet orbits and atmospheres in the V1298 Tau system, a keystone in studies of early planetary evolution
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3107/6413572?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Maximum temperatures in evolving protoplanetary discs and composition of planetary building blocks
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab837

Interstellar planetesimals: potential seeds for planet formation?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15366

Carbon monoxide gas produced by a giant impact in the inner region of a young system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15377

3D radiative-transfer for exoplanet atmospheres. gCMCRT: a GPU accelerated MCRT code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15640

Direct emission spectroscopy of exoplanets with the medium resolution imaging spectrometer on board JWST MIRI: I. Molecular mapping and sensitivity to instrumental effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15756

October 29, 2021 updates

prose: A Python framework for modular astronomical images processing
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3113/6414007

Was Venus Ever Habitable? Constraints from a Coupled Interior–Atmosphere–Redox Evolution Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac2580

Hidden water in magma ocean exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15069

Exoplanet atmosphere evolution: emulation with random forests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15162

Non-homogeneous exoplanets in metric-affine gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15139

First Doppler Limits on Binary Planets and Exomoons in the HR 8799 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14650

KELT-9 as an eclipsing double-lined spectroscopic binary: a unique and self-consistent solution to the system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15275

On the Possibility of an Artificial Origin for `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15213

A glint in the eye: photographic plate archive searches for alien visitations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15217

October 28, 2021 updates

A solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03912-6

Call for a framework for reporting evidence for life beyond Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03804-9.epdf

A birth-death-migration model for life in astrophysical environments
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3108/6413568

Unveiling Shrouded Oceans on Temperate sub-Neptunes via Transit Signatures of Solubility Equilibria versus Gas Thermochemistry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac1f92

Effects of Hydrogen on the Phase Relations in Fe–FeS at Pressures of Mars-Sized Bodies
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE006942

Gemini/GMOS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Grazing Planet Candidate WD 1856+534 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14106

The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect Revolutions: An ultra-short period planet and a warm mini-Neptune on perpendicular orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14214

Revisiting TrES-5 b: departure from a linear ephemeris instead of short-period transit timing variation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14294

Detection capability of ground-based meter-sized telescopes for shallow exoplanet transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14344

Using the Climate App to learn about Planetary Habitability and Climate Change
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14087