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 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

July 03, 2023 Updates

Space Robotics for Future Applications
http://www.ijaresm.com/space-robotics-for-future-applications

Advanced Space Propulsion: Harnessing Magnetic Reconnection Energy
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371934188_Advanced_Space_Propulsion_Harnessing_Magnetic_Reconnection_Energy

On the Proposed Interstellar Origin of the USG 20140108 Fireball
Https://Arxiv.Org/abs/2306.14267

Erratum: “Kepler and the Behemoth: Three Mini-Neptunes in a 40 Million Year Old Association”
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acda92

13 New Light Curves and Updated Mid-Transit Time and Period for Hot Jupiter WASP-104 b with EXOTIC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17251

24 New Light Curves and Updated Ephemeris using EXOTIC for WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17473

Tidal dissipation due to the elliptical instability and turbulent viscosity in convection zones in rotating giant planets and stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17622

A VERITAS/Breakthrough Listen Search for Optical Technosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17680

Confirming Resonance in Three Transiting Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17751

June 30, 2023 updates

Continental configuration controls the base-state water vapor greenhouse effect: lessons from half-land, half-water planets https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-023-06857-w

The β Pictoris system: Setting constraints on the planet and the disk structures at mid-IR wavelengths with NEAR
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/07/aa45143-22/aa45143-22.html

UV Spectral Characterization of Low-Mass Stars With AstroSat UVIT for Exoplanet Applications: The Case Study of HIP 23309
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16470

The TESS-Keck Survey. XVI. Mass Measurements for 12 Planets in Eight Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16587

The Metallicity Dimension of the Super Earth-Cold Jupiter Correlation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16691