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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August 15, 2023 updates

Searching for New Worlds in an Era of Massive Data Sets: Planetary Transits, Gravitational Microlensing, and Neural Networks
https://www.proquest.com/openview/fcb15808a5af2ba2c15dcd5575b9fad6/1

KMT-2022-BLG-0475Lb and KMT-2022-BLG-1480Lb: Microlensing ice giants detected via the non-caustic-crossing channel
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46667-23/aa46667-23.html

The stability of unevenly spaced planetary systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103523003342

Measuring Tidal Dissipation in Giant Planets from Tidal Circularization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06324

High-resolution emission spectroscopy retrievals of MASCARA-1b with CRIRES+: Strong detections of CO, H2O and Fe emission lines and a C/O consistent with solar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07157

The Orbit of Warm Jupiter WASP-106 b is aligned with its Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07165

August 14, 2023 Updates

Synergies between interstellar dust and heliospheric science with an Interstellar Probe
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzad034/7241816

The Galactic Interstellar Object Population: A Framework for Prediction and Inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05801

Potential Atmospheric Compositions of TRAPPIST-1 c constrained by JWST/MIRI Observations at 15 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05899

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Exoplanet Atmospheres I. Thermochemical Equilibrium Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05946

A Search for exoplanets around northern circumpolar stars VIII. filter out a planet cycle from the multi-period radial velocity variations in M giant HD 3638
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05994

The Transient Outgassed Atmosphere of 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06066

Forming rocky exoplanets around K-dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06236

ACCESS, LRG-BEASTS, & MOPSS: Featureless Optical Transmission Spectra of WASP-25b and WASP-124b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06263

August 11, 2023 updates

The GAPS programme at TNG – XLIV. Projected rotational velocities of 273 exoplanet-host stars observed with HARPS-N
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa45564-22/aa45564-22.html

The Impact of Tidal Migration of Hot Jupiters on the Rotation of Sun-like Main-sequence Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ace028

Small but mighty: High-resolution spectroscopy of ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres with compact telescopes. KELT-9 b’s transmission spectrum with Wendelstein’s FOCES Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05149

Revisiting Planetary Systems in Okayama Planet Search Program: A new long-period planet, RV astrometry joint analysis, and multiplicity-metallicity trend around evolved stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05343

A review of planetary systems around HD 99492, HD 147379 and HD 190007 with HARPS-N https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05669

CUTE reveals escaping metals in the upper atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189b https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05726

August 10, 2023 updates

Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Law
https://brill.com/display/title/68174

A cool runaway greenhouse without surface magma ocean
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06258-3

PCAT-DE: Reconstructing Pointlike and Diffuse Signals in Astronomical Images Using Spatial and Spectral Information
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace69b

Metrics for Optimizing Searches for Tidally Decaying Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04587

Time-resolved transmission spectroscopy of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04523

Tidal Response and Shape of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04966

The Radiation Environments of Middle-Aged F-Type Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04980

Deuterium Escape on Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05057