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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July 31, 2023 Updates

Can XunTian Tai Chi intervention improve the level of emotional regulation of crew members in the Controlled Ecological Life Support System?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666337623000471

Nature-Inspired Concepts for High-Power Electric Propulsion Systems
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15361055.2023.2227504

Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0084

Complete X-ray census of M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood I. GJ 745 AB: Coronal-hole stars in the 10 pc sample
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46470-23/aa46470-23.html
Signal Synchronization Strategies and Time Domain SETI with Gaia DR3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acde79

Close Encounters of the Interstellar Kind: Exploring the Capture of Interstellar Objects in Near Earth Orbit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2317/7233732

Measuring Tidal Dissipation in Giant Planets from Tidal Circularization
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2298/7233104

Magnetic winding and turbulence in ultra-hot Jupiters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2311/7233742

Chasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the habitable worlds observatory
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2127/7231835

The Space Experiment of the Exo-ecosystem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15562

July 28, 2023 updates

Rocky sub-Neptunes formed by pebble accretion: Rain of rocks from polluted envelopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14674

On the survivability of a population of gas giant planets on wide orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14908

First on-sky results of a FIOS prototype, a Fabry Perot Based Instrument for Oxygen Searches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14947

Investigating the visible phase-curve variability of 55 Cnc e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06085

Probing reflection from aerosols with the near-infrared dayside spectrum of WASP-80b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14399

July 27, 2023 updates

For All Kind: Astrobiology and SETI Beyond “Mankind”
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ezk5c/

The Exo-Jupiter Candidate FL Lyr b in Data of Kepler and TESS Space Missions
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772923050062

The Variable Detection of Atmospheric Escape around the Young, Hot Neptune AU Mic b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace536

Upper bounds on technoemission rates from 60 years of “silence” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576523003776

Fizzy Super-Earths: Impacts of Magma Composition on the Bulk Density and Structure of Lava Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13726

Modeling the Chromosphere and Transition Region of Planet-hosting Star GJ 436
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13857

OGLE-2019-BLG-0825: Constraints on the Source System and Effect on Binary-lens Parameters arising from a Five Day Xallarap Effect in a Candidate Planetary Microlensing Event
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14274

Can Cold Jupiters Sculpt the Edge-of-the-Multis?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14309

July 26, 2023 updates

Early formation of a water ocean as a function of initial CO2 and H2O contents in a solidifying rocky planet
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007848

A Comparison of the Composition of Planets in Single- and Multi-Planet Systems Orbiting M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13034

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. X. Complete Sample of 2017 Prime-Field Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13359

Revised orbits of the two nearest Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13622

July 25, 2023 updates

The Tianlin Mission: a 6m UV/Opt/IR space telescope to explore the habitable worlds and the universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12013

ROME. III. The Arecibo Search for Star–Planet Interactions at 5 GHz
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acd9ad

Transiting Exoplanet Detection Through 1D Convolutional Neural Networks https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38616-9_6

Estimating the number of planets that PLATO can detect
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12163

Chasing Nomadic Worlds: A New Class of Deep Space Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12411

Calculations of Particle Bombardment due to Dust and Charged Particles in the ISM on the Project Starshot Gram-Scale Interstellar Probe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12160

Interstellar Object Uncertainty Evolution and Effect on Fast Flyby Delivery and Required Delta-V
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11887

On-sky speckle nulling through a single-mode fiber with the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11893