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 16, 2022 updates

Nuclear fusion breakthrough: What does it mean for space exploration?
https://www.space.com/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-spacetravel

The Mass and Orbital-Period Distributions of Exoplanets Accounting for the Observational Selection of the Method for Measuring Radial Velocities. A Dominant (Averaged) Structure of Planetary Systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S106377292210002X

Evidence for the volatile-rich composition of a 1.5-Earth-radius planet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01835-4

Surface‐To‐Ocean Exchange by the Sinking of Impact Generated Melt Chambers on Europa
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL100287

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b – Detection of Ti and V emission lines and retrieval of a broadened line profile
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44277-22/aa44277-22.html

Companions to Kepler giant stars: A long-period eccentric sub-stellar companion to KIC 3526061 and a stellar companion to HD 187878
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44501-22/aa44501-22.html

Common envelope evolution and triple dynamics as potential pathways to form the inner white dwarf + brown dwarf binary of the triple star system Gaia 0007−1605
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3675/6912273

Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters Around Early-type M Dwarfs Based on Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9b12

Importance of Sample Selection in Exoplanet-atmosphere Population Studies

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9f45

Near-infrared Accretion Signatures from the Circumbinary Planetary-mass Companion Delorme 1 (AB)b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac85ef

Erratum: “Near-infrared Accretion Signatures from the Circumbinary Planetary-mass Companion Delorme 1 (AB)b” (2022, ApJL, 935, L18)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aca331

TrExoLiSTS: Transiting Exoplanets List of Space Telescope Spectroscopy https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acabc7

Transit Depth Variations Reveal TOI-216 b to be a Super-Puff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07450

Statistical Analysis of the Dearth of Super-eccentric Jupiters in the Kepler Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07546

December 15, 2022 updates

Alien technology, conjunction and ergodicity
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/alien-technology-conjunction-and-ergodicity/E9500F60A57E44945E4A26B857B6A468

Analysis of Eclipsing Binary Stars and Identification of Exoplanets Using Transit Timing Variation Using data from TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2381/1/012106

The Direct Mid-Infrared Detectability of Habitable-zone Exoplanets Around Nearby Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06993

Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the nearby star GJ1002
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07332

December 14, 2022 updates

Measured spin–orbit alignment of ultra-short-period super-Earth 55 Cancri e
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01837-2

Antimatter and Its Application-Collecting Antimatter and Storage It as Energy Source
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2386/1/012074

The Institutions of Extraterrestrial Liberty
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-institutions-of-extraterrestrial-liberty-9780192897985

Terminator Habitability: the Case for Limited Water Availability on M-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06185

Impact of MgII interstellar medium absorption on near-ultraviolet exoplanet transit measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06192

NEID Reveals that The Young Warm Neptune TOI-2076 b Has a Low Obliquity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06266

Selected Trends in Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06662

Life in a random universe: Sciama’s argument reconsidered
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10241

December 13, 2022 updates

Revisiting the Blue Marble: ICON simulating the coupled climate system at 1 km
https://mpimet.mpg.de/en/communication/news/single-news/page?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=1648&cHash=f051b796251535976ab2ea96d7fb3be9

TESS search for substellar companions through pulsation timing of δ Scuti stars – I. Discovery of companions around Chang 134 and V393 Car
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44592-22/aa44592-22.html

Characterization of the HD 108236 system with CHEOPS and TESS Confirmation of a fifth transiting planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43720-22/aa43720-22.html

Transmission strings: a technique for spatially mapping exoplanet atmospheres around their terminators
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3632/6889522

Repeated Cyclogenesis on Hot-Exoplanet Atmospheres with Deep Heating
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05114

A Green Bank Telescope search for narrowband technosignatures between 1.1-1.9 GHz during 12 Kepler planetary transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05137

December 12, 2022 updates

Analysis of Proposed Active Radiation Shielding Design Concept for Spacecraft
https://repository.lib.fit.edu/handle/11141/3598

Conditions for Convergent Migration of N-Planet Systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-022-10113-4

CHEOPS finds KELT-1b darker than expected in visible light – Discrepancy between the CHEOPS and TESS eclipse depths
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44117-22/aa44117-22.html

Transit Duration and Timing Variations from Binary Planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3604/6886562

The Dust Cycle on Mars at Different Orbital Distances from the Sun: An Investigation of the Impact of Radiatively Active Dust on Land Planet Climate
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9481

How Thin and Efficient Can a Metasurface Reflector Be? Universal Bounds on Reflection for Any Direction and Polarization
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adom.202201782

Surface Biosignature Detection From Exoplanet Proxima Centauri b
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366157647_Surface_Biosignature_Detection_From_Exoplanet_Proxima_Centauri_b

Orbits of the TOI-1338 and TIC-172900988 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05016

GCM Constraints on the Detectability of the CO2-CH4 Biosignature Pair on TRAPPIST-1e with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05052

A superconducting nanowire photon number resolving four-quadrant detector-based Gigabit deep-space laser communication receiver prototype
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04927