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 5, 2022 Updates

A CHEOPS-enhanced view of the HD 3167 system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43778-22/aa43778-22.html

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44277-22/aa44277-22.html

JWST spots chemical reactions in exoplanet atmosphere
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407922021698

Religion in space – A sense of divine entitlement pervades private space colonization efforts
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf0791

Expected Fragment Distribution from the First Interstellar Meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00839

December 02, 2022 updates

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

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – VI. Detecting rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43846-22/aa43846-22.html

Communicating extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) interaction models based on the Drake equation
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/communicating-extraterrestrial-intelligence-ceti-interaction-models-based-on-the-drake-equation/43E39C0AA642E7A60B82D6DE1E394D5D

Radio-loud Exoplanet-exomoon Survey: GMRT Search for Electron Cyclotron Maser Emission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9eb8

Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of a Superjovian Planet Orbiting an Accelerating Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00034

Life on Titan May Signal Early Life in the Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00473

December 01, 2022 updates

Dynamics and Evolution of Venus’ Mantle Through Time
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00937-9

Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3

The Fermi Paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the Contact Era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16505

Dynamics and Origins of the Near-Resonant Kepler Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16725

JWST NIRCam Defocused Imaging: Photometric Stability Performance and How it Can Sense Mirror Tilts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16727

Nitrogen as a Tracer of Giant Planet Formation. I.: A Universal Deep Adiabatic Profile and Semi-analytical Predictions of Disequilibrium Ammonia Abundances in Warm Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16876

Radial velocity confirmation of a hot super-Neptune discovered by TESS with a warm Saturn-mass companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.17035

November 30, 2022 updates

NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-an-exoplanet-atmosphere-as-never-seen-before

Episodic Plate Tectonics on Europa: Evidence for Widespread Patches of Mobile-Lid Behavior in the Antijovian Hemisphere
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007492

A strong H− opacity signal in the near-infrared emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44533-22/aa44533-22.html

Star–planet interaction – Wave structures and wing-wing interaction https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43346-22/aa43346-22.html

Transmission spectroscopy of WASP-7 b with UVES – Detection of Na i D2 and tentative D1 line absorption
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43955-22/aa43955-22.html

Erratum: “Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. II. Discovery of a Failed Hot Jupiter on a 2.7 yr, Highly Eccentric Orbit”
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9e51

Tentative Evidence for Transit-timing Variations of WASP-161b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9e50

An efficient Monte Carlo model for the slowing down of photoelectrons. Application to H-$\alpha$ in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14128

Revisiting the space weather environment of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15697

Exciting the TTV Phases of Resonant Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15701

Making hot Jupiters in stellar clusters: the importance of binary exchange
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16015

Observations of planetary winds and outflows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16243

November 29, 2022 updates

Artificial Gravity And Its Implications
https://ijaem.net/issue_dcp/Artificial%20Gravity%20And%20Its%20Implications.pdf

Antimatter Propulsion and its Application for Interstellar Travel: A Review
https://www.ijraset.com/best-journal/antimatter-propulsion-and-its-application-in-interstellar-travel-a-review

Increasing the stability margins using multi-pattern metasails and multi-modal laser beams
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24681-w

Human Enhancement and Reproductive Ethics on Generation Ships
https://philarchive.org/archive/UMBHEA

Emplacement of the Franklin large igneous province and initiation of the Sturtian Snowball Earth
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adc9430

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) – VII. Detection of sodium on the long-transiting inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43998-22/aa43998-22.html

Phase curve and geometric albedo of WASP-43b measured with CHEOPS, TESS, and HST WFC3/UVIS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43974-22/aa43974-22.html

Testing Velocity Kinks as a Planet Detection Method: Do Velocity Kinks in Surface Gas Emission Trace Planetary Spiral Wakes in the Midplane Continuum?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aca074

From Solar System to Exoplanets: What can we learn from Planetary Spectroscopy?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ac97d1

Exoplanet Detection by Machine Learning with Data Augmentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15577

Utility of PCA and Other Data Transformation Techniques in Exoplanet Research
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14683

The Effects of Under and Over Sampling in Exoplanet Transit
Identification with Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Data
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-21686-2_8

Revisiting the atmosphere of the exoplanet 51 Eridani b with VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14330

Concept of an achromatic stellar coronagraph and its application for detecting extrasolar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14624

Stellar space weather effects on potentially habitable planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15396

Hubble Space Telescope transmission spectroscopy for the temperate sub-Neptune TOI-270d: a possible hydrogen-rich atmosphere containing water vapour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15576

Dynamic Soaring as a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14643