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 30, 2021 updates

The 2021 Assembly of the Order of the Octopus
https://zenodo.org/communities/octopusassembly2021/?page=1&size=20

Scientific Targets of Tanpopo: Astrobiology Exposure and Micrometeoroid Capture Experiments at the Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility of the International Space Station
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2426

Internal gravity waves in a stratified layer atop a convecting liquid core in a non-rotating spherical shell
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gji/ggab343/6359145

Chemical evidence for planetary ingestion in a quarter of Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12040

SPORK That Spectrum: Increasing Detection Significances from High-Resolution Exoplanet Spectroscopy with Novel Smoothing Algorithms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12057

August 27, 2021 updates

MHD Model of the Interaction of a Coronal Mass Ejection with the Hot Jupiter HD 209458b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772921090092

Study of the Secular Evolution of Circumbinary Systems Using R-Toroid and Gaussian Ring Models
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772921080072

Multi-color photometry and parameters estimation of three transiting Jupiter-sized exoplanets; TrES-3b, WASP-2b and HAT-P-30b
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621001081

TOI-1518b: A Misaligned Ultra-hot Jupiter with Iron in its Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11403

Structures of secular resonances for inner test particles in hierarchical planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11532

A new expansion of planetary disturbing function and applications to interior, co-orbital and exterior resonances with planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11541

Exploring the link between star and planet formation with Ariel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11869

August 26, 2021 updates

A Lattice Boltzmann Scheme for Polarized Radiative Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0c76

No Large Dependence of Planet Frequency on Galactocentric Distance
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac17ec

Habitability and Biosignatures of Hycean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10888

Constraining the radius and atmospheric properties of directly imaged exoplanets through multi-phase observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10918

Constraints on the Occurrence of ‘Oumuamua-Like Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11194

August 25, 2021 updates

Wavelength dependent transit depth of HATS-5b: a haze dominant atmosphere?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-021-03989-5

Erratum: “Vertical Tracer Mixing in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres”
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1cdc

Erratum: “Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters: Dayside–Nightside Temperature Differences. II. Comparison with Observations”
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1cdd

Low volcanic outgassing rates for a stagnant lid Archean earth with graphite-saturated magmas
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031920121001461

Stellar Obliquities in Long-period Exoplanet Systems (SOLES) I: The Spin-Orbit Alignment of K2-140 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10362

TESS observations of flares and quasi-periodic pulsations from low mass stars and potential impact on exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10670

Optimization Applied to Selected Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10804

August 24, 2021 updates

The Architectures of Planetary Systems: Population Synthesis Meets Observations
https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/30280/1/thesis_Martin_Schlecker_examiners.pdf

The Impact of Intrinsic Magnetic Field on the Absorption Signatures of Elements Probing the Upper Atmosphere of HD209458b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2366/6356578

A Lyα Transit Left Undetected: the Environment and Atmospheric Behavior of K2-25b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac126f

From Warm Planets to Perpendicular Hot Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09325

Grain alignment and rotational disruption by radiative torques in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09973

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XLVI: 12 super-Earths around the solar type stars HD39194, HD93385, HD96700, HD154088, and HD189567
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10198

Simulating starspot activity jitter for spectral types F–M: realistic estimates for a representative sample of known exoplanet hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10204