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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May 1, 2023 Updates

Impact of M Dwarfs Ultraviolet Radiation on Prebiotic Chemistry: The Case of Adenine
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0050

Morphology of the gas-rich debris disk around HD 121617 with SPHERE observations in polarized light
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/05/aa44694-22/aa44694-22.html

TOI-1442 b and TOI-2445 b: Two potentially rocky ultra-short period planets around M dwarfs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/05/aa43592-22/aa43592-22.html

The Accessible Universe: On the Choice to Require Bodily Modification for Space Exploration
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-42036-9_14

The final frontier: what is distinctive about the bioethics of space missions? The cases of human enhancement and human reproduction
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36306074/

Bioethical Issues in Human Modification for Protection against the Effects of Space Radiation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964622000315

Extreme Speeds in the Universe: From Light to Life
https://www.nnlabs.org/extreme-speeds-in-the-universe-from-light-to-life/

Survival and dynamics of rings of co-orbital planets under perturbations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1294/7147310

Dynamics of the clumps partially disrupted from a planet around a neutron star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1260/7147317

AIOLOS – A multi-purpose 1-D hydrodynamics code for planetary atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1251/7147322

The mass determination of TOI-519 b: a close-in giant planet transiting a metal-rich mid-M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14703

April 28, 2023 updates

The shared evaporation history of three sub-Neptunes spanning the radius–period valley of a hyades star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1257/7146232

Validation of TOI-1221 b: A Warm Sub-Neptune Exhibiting Transit Timing Variations around a Sun-like Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acc8d4

Debris Rings from Extrasolar Irregular Satellites
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13753

Combined analysis of stellar and planetary absorption lines via global forward-transit simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13759

Simulation of the Earth’s radio leakage from mobile towers as seen from selected nearby stellar systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13779

High-contrast detection of exoplanets with a kernel-nuller at the VLTI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14193

Distinguishing a planetary transit from false positives: a Transformer-based classification for planetary transit signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14283

April 27, 2023 updates

The Gods Subsist – Possible Worlds, Set Theory and Theory and the Anthropic Principle
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nk8de/

Visualizing Ultrafast Kinetic Instabilities in Laser-Driven Solids using X-ray Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11011

Mission Design of an Aperture-Synthetic Interferometer System for Space-Based Exoplanet Exploration
https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/2022/9835234

China proposes alien planet mission to hunt habitable worlds by scanning wobbling stars
https://www.space.com/china-habitable-exoplanet-mission

Envisioning the next generation of space telescopes
https://spacenews.com/envisioning-the-next-generation-of-space-telescopes/

CO or no CO? Narrowing the CO abundance constraint and recovering the H2O detection in the atmosphere of WASP-127 b using SPIRou
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1247/7143783

Toward 3D Retrieval of Exoplanet Atmospheres: Assessing Thermochemical Equilibrium Estimation Methods
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acc939

Carbon-rich icy moons and dwarf planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X23001851

Narrow loophole for H2-dominated atmospheres on habitable rocky planets around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13659

X-ray Activity Variations and Coronal Abundances of the Star-Planet Interaction candidate HD 179949
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01011

April 26, 2023 updates

How tidal waves interact with convective vortices in rapidly rotating planets and stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/05/aa43586-22/aa43586-22.html

Enabling Exoplanet Demographics Studies with Standardized Exoplanet Survey Meta-Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12442

Bioverse: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Capabilities of Extremely Large Telescopes to Probe Earth-like O2 Levels in Nearby Transiting Habitable Zone Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12490

Orbital Architectures of Kepler Multis From Planet-Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12352

The shared evaporation history of three sub-Neptunes spanning the radius-period valley of a Hyades star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12705

Giants are bullies: how their growth influences systems of inner sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12758

Exoplanets as Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00015

April 25, 2023 updates

Comet 2I/Borisov in Comparison with Comets of the Solar System https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094623010021

Kinematic Evidence of an Embedded Protoplanet in HD 142666 Identified by Machine Learning
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acc737

Warm giant exoplanet characterisation: current state, challenges and outlook
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1179000

Prospects for the characterization of habitable planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11570

Lorenz Energy Cycle: Another Way to Understand the Atmospheric Circulation on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11627

GJ3470-d and GJ3470-e: Discovery of Co-Orbiting Exoplanets in a Horseshoe Exchange Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11769

Tidal dissipation in stratified and semi-convective regions of giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11898

Detection of carbon monoxide’s 4.6 micron fundamental band structure in WASP-39b’s atmosphere with JWST NIRSpec G395H
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11994

WASP-131 b with ESPRESSO I: A bloated sub-Saturn on a polar orbit around a differentially rotating solar-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12163