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 10, 2023 Updates

Research for an Early-Stage Development of the First Interstellar CubeSat Powered by Solar Sailing Technology
https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/isss2023/docs/presentations/05_June_5_Fil.pdf

Optimization of Photon-sail Trajectories to Alpha Centauri Using Evolutionary Neurocontrol
https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/isss2023/docs/presentations/23_June_7_Dachwald.pdf

Photon-sail trajectories towards exoplanet Proxima b using heteroclinic connections
https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/isss2023/docs/presentations/25_June_7_Rotmans.pdf

Extraterrestrial Impacts Creating Architectures for Life
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41745-023-00397-2

The extremely high albedo of LTT 9779 b revealed by CHEOPS – An ultrahot Neptune with a highly metallic atmosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa46117-23/aa46117-23.html

The mass of gas giant planets: Is Saturn a failed gas giant?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa46850-23/aa46850-23.html

Chasing extreme planetary architectures – I. HD 196885 Ab, a super-Jupiter dancing with two stars?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa44502-22/aa44502-22.html

Power of wavelets in analyses of transit and phase curves in the presence of stellar variability and instrumental noise II. Accuracy of the transit parameters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa43017-21/aa43017-21.html

Attitude control for a full-scale flexible electric solar wind sail spacecraft on heliocentric and displaced non-Keplerian orbits
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523003569

TOI-1859b: A 64 Day Warm Jupiter on an Eccentric and Misaligned Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acd93d

July 07, 2023 updates

Chasing extreme planetary architectures – I. HD 196885 Ab, a super-Jupiter dancing with two stars?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa44502-22/aa44502-22.html

Dynamical Stability of Polar Circumbinary Orbits and Planet Formation in the Planetary Disk of 99 Herculis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace039

Hunting for exoplanets via magnetic star-planet interactions: geometrical considerations for radio emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02555

Planetary evolution with atmospheric photoevaporation II: Fitting the slope of the radius valley by combining boil-off and XUV-driven escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02566

HST/WFC3 Light Curve Confirms the Closest Exoplanet to Transit an M Dwarf is Terrestrial
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02970

Hydrodynamic atmospheric escape in HD 189733 b: Signatures of carbon and hydrogen measured with the Hubble Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03058

July 06, 2023 updates

Intra-system uniformity: a natural outcome of dynamical sculpting
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slad092/7220021

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems I: High-contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2 to 16 μm
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acd93e

Analogous response of temperate terrestrial exoplanets and Earth’s climate dynamics to greenhouse gas supplement
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01983

Modelling dynamically driven global cloud formation microphysics in the HAT-P-1b atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02268

July 05, 2023 updates

Stable Orbits in the Feeding Zone of the Planet Proxima Centauri c https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094623030036

Small-Scale Dynamos: From Idealized Models to Solar and Stellar Applications
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-023-00981-z

Retrieving planet formation parameters of WASP-77Ab using SimAb https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa45469-22/aa45469-22.html

The Orbital Eccentricities of Directly Imaged Companions Using Observable-based Priors: Implications for Population-level Distributions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acdc9a

EXPRES. IV. Two Additional Planets Orbiting ρ Coronae Borealis Reveal Uncommon System Architecture
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acdd6f

New opportunities for astronomical imaging systems
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20230104

July 04, 2023 updates

LavAtmos: An open-source chemical equilibrium vaporization code for lava worlds
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.13994

Search for planets in hot Jupiter systems with multi-sector TESS photometry. III. A study of ten systems enhanced with new ground-based photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00538

Interferometric apodization by homothety — I. Optimization of the device parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00624

Spitzer thermal phase curve of WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00669

KMT-2022-BLG-0475Lb and KMT-2022-BLG-1480Lb: Microlensing ice giants detected via non-caustic-crossing channel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00753

Examining NHD vs QHD in the GCM THOR with non-grey radiative transfer for the hot Jupiter regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00935

DREAM: III.A helium survey in exoplanets on the edge of the hot Neptune desert with GIANO-B@TNG
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.00967

An imaged 15Mjup companion within a hierarchical quadruple system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01195