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 26, 2022 Updates

Using debris disk observations to infer substellar companions orbiting within or outside a parent planetesimal belt
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa43240-22/aa43240-22.html

HARPS radial velocity search for planets in the Scorpius-Centaurus association
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa41235-21/aa41235-21.html

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Planetary Characteristics
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/9/1/2

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Stellar and Atmospheric Habitability
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/9/1/4

December 23, 2022 updates

HARPS radial velocity search for planets in the Scorpius-Centaurus association – A combination with the HARPS and SOPHIE young nearby stars (YNS) surveys
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa41235-21/aa41235-21.html

KOBEsim: A Bayesian observing strategy algorithm for planet detection in radial velocity blind-search surveys
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa43938-22/aa43938-22.html

A Chemical Modeling Roadmap Linking Protoplanetary Disks and Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00342

Analytic frozen orbits under the zonal harmonics perturbation from an Earth-like planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11458

High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Exoplanet GJ 486b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11816

December 22, 2022 updates

Assembly Begins on NASA’s Next Tool to Study Exoplanets
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/assembly-begins-on-nasa-s-next-tool-to-study-exoplanets

Blueprint for Forever: Securing Human Far Futures with Ectogenesis https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328722001859

The phase-space architecture in extrasolar systems with two planets in orbits of high mutual inclination
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10569

Occurrence rate of hot Jupiters orbiting red giant stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.10922

December 20, 2022 updates

Precise dynamical masses of new directly imaged companions from combining relative astrometry, radial velocities, and HIPPARCOS-Gaia eDR3 accelerations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44633-22/aa44633-22.html

Breakdown of planetary systems in embedded clusters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3705/6939834

Tidal Distortions as a Bottleneck on Constraining Exoplanet Compositions https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aca409

The Possible Tidal Demise of Kepler’s First Planetary System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aca47e

Comparative Analysis of Observations of the Selected Exoplanet Transits Obtained at the Kyiv Comet Station with the Database of the Orbital Telescopes TESS and KEPLER
http://oap.onu.edu.ua/article/view/268007

Limb darkening measurements from TESS and Kepler light curves of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09117

Kepler-80 Revisited: Assessing the Participation of a Newly Discovered Planet in the Resonant Chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08695

Orbital structure of planetary systems formed by giant impacts: stellar mass dependence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08812

Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Planets L~98-59~c \& d: No Evidence for a Clear Hydrogen Dominated Primary Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09526