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 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

November 21, 2022 updates

The Detectability of Rocky Planet Surface and Atmosphere Composition with the JWST: The Case of LHS 3844b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9ab3

Climate Change and Life – The Complex Co-Evolution of Climate and Life on Earth, and Beyond
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128225684/climate-change-and-life

The Effects of Under and Over Sampling in Exoplanet Transit Identification with Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Data
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-21686-2_8

Detecting planetary mass companions near the water frost-line using JWST interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09830

The mass-radius relation of intermediate-mass planets outlined by hydrodynamic escape and thermal evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10166

A strong H- opacity signal in the near-infrared emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10297

November 18, 2022 updates

Helium-enhanced planets along the upper edge of the radius valley
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01823-8

Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing – III. Entering the regime of dynamical tides
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44280-22/aa44280-22.html

Optimization of shadow shield and analysis of radiation characteristics for nuclear powered spacecraft
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0149197022003614

Chasing Nomadic Worlds: A New Class of Deep Space Missions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365298186_Chasing_Nomadic_Worlds_A_New_Class_of_Deep_Space_Missions

Habitability of Exoplanets around Black Hole
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/2364/1/012057

Land Fraction Diversity on Earth-like Planets and Implications for their Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09473

Locating Hidden Exoplanets in ALMA Data Using Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09541

High-resolution atmospheric retrievals of WASP-121b transmission spectroscopy with ESPRESSO: Consistent relative abundance constraints across multiple epochs and instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09621

November 17, 2022 updates

Presence or absence of stabilizing Earth system feedbacks on different time scales
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adc9241

STELLA—Potential European contributions to a NASA-led interstellar probe https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.1063849/full

A systematic validation of hot Neptunes in TESS data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08490

Circumbinary planets: migration, trapping in mean-motion resonances, and ejection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08520

Observability of signatures of transport-induced chemistry in clear atmospheres of hot gas giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09071

High-Eccentricity Migration with Disk-Induced Spin-Orbit Misalignment: a Preference for Perpendicular Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09122

November 16, 2022 updates

TOI-3884 b: A rare 6-RE planet that transits a low-mass star with a giant and likely polar spot
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44791-22/aa44791-22.html

The Perkins INfrared Exosatellite Survey (PINES). II. Transit Candidates and Implications for Planet Occurrence around L and T Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9a52

Inner Habitable Zone Boundary for Eccentric Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07883

VaTEST I: Validation of Sub-Saturn Exoplanet TOI-181b in Narrow Orbit from its Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07957

Formation of super-Earths in icy dead zones around low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07759

Ammonia and Phosphine in the Clouds of Venus as Potentially Biological Anomalies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07786