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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November 28, 2022 Updates

Chemical evolution in ices on drifting, planet-forming pebbles
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43982-22/aa43982-22.html

JWST/MIRI coronagraphic performances as measured on-sky
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44578-22/aa44578-22.html

Radial velocity survey for planets around young stars (RVSPY)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44747-22/aa44747-22.html

Simulations of Triple Microlensing Events I: Detectability of a scaled Sun-Jupiter-Saturn System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13393

Binary microlensing with plasma environment — Star and planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13442

Water and an escaping helium tail detected in the hazy and methane-depleted atmosphere of HAT-P-18b from JWST NIRISS/SOSS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13761

An efficient Monte Carlo model for the slowing down of photoelectrons. Application to H- in exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522004651

A Circumplanetary Dust Ring May Explain the Extreme Spectral Slope of the 10 Myr Young Exoplanet K2-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9f3f

Flutter Mechanism Analysis for Circular Solar Sail
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.J061994

November 25, 2022 Updates

Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sovereign-mars-jacob-haqq-misra/1141623240

Can the Theory of Everything be the Great Filter?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365374857_Can_the_Theory_of_Everything_be_the_Great_Filter

Long-Term Exoplanet Habitability: How Chance Favors Prokaryotes
https://d197for5662m48.cloudfront.net/documents/publicationstatus/96157/preprint_pdf/078d89daaf7a417a3f0ea33284649d3e.pdf

Validation of strategies for coupling exoplanet PSFs into single-mode fibres for high-dispersion coronagraphy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43408-22/aa43408-22.html

The fundamentals of Lyman-α exoplanet transits
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3414/6845744?redirectedFrom=fulltext

November 23, 2022 Updates

SimAb: A simple, fast, and flexible model to assess the effects of planet formation on the atmospheric composition of gas giants
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa41455-21/aa41455-21.html

Efficiently combining α CenA multi-Epoch high-contrast imaging data
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43576-22/aa43576-22.html

The Information Catastrophe and Space Settlement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001632872200163X

The high-albedo, low polarization disk around HD 114082 harbouring a Jupiter-sized transiting planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11767

Removal of Hot Saturns in Mass-Radius Plane by Runaway Mass Loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11770

Is the hot, dense sub-Neptune TOI-824b an exposed Neptune mantle? Spitzer detection of the hot day side and reanalysis of the interior composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11793

Measuring the Obliquities of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets with MAROON-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11841

Traveling planetary-scale waves cause cloud variability on tidally locked aquaplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11887

Repeating fast radio bursts produced by a strange star interacting with its planet in an eccentric orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12026

November 22, 2022 updates

Modeling a power-generating pulsed nuclear magnetic nozzle
https://louis.uah.edu/uah-dissertations/249/

Efficiently combining α CenA multi-epoch high-contrast imaging data – Application of K-Stacker to the 80 hours NEAR campaign
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43576-22/aa43576-22.html

Some lessons from observing exoplanet transits with the MicroObservatory
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365034879_Some_lessons_from_observing_exoplanet_transits_with_the_MicroObservatory

MHD Study of Extreme Space Weather Conditions for Exoplanets With Earth‐Like Magnetospheres: On Habitability Conditions and Radio‐Emission
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022SW003164

Exoplanets Around Red Giants: Distribution and Habitability
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2231648/v1

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec PRISM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10487

Early Release Science of the Exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRSpec G395H
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10488

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRCam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10489

Early Release Science of the exoplanet WASP-39b with JWST NIRISS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10493

Direct Evidence of Photochemistry in an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10490

Rocky histories: The effect of high excitations on the formation of rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10491

Venus Life Finder Habitability Mission: Motivation, Science Objectives, and Instrumentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11443