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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October 14, 2022 updates

The Directly Imaged Exoplanet Host Star 51 Eridani is a Gamma Doradus Pulsator
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9229

Connecting Solar and Stellar Flares/CMEs: Expanding Heliophysics to Encompass Exoplanetary Space Weather
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06476

TOI-561 b: A Low Density Ultra-Short Period “Rocky” Planet around a Metal-Poor Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06665

Solid grains ejected from terrestrial exoplanets as a probe of the abundance of life in the Milky Way
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07084

October 13, 2022 updates

NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter in safe mode after computer glitch
https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-exoplanet-mission-in-safe-mode

Detection of barium in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76b and WASP-121b – Together with new detections of Co and Sr+ on WASP-121b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44489-22/aa44489-22.html

A dense mini-Neptune orbiting the bright young star HD 18599
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2845/6760009

A Note on the “Various Atmospheres over Water Oceans on Terrestrial Planets with a One-Dimensional Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05963

Spectral cube extraction for the VLT/SPHERE IFS: Open-source pipeline with full forward modeling and improved sensitivity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06390

October 12, 2022 updates

Advanced Electric Propulsion Concepts for Fast Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363862726_Advanced_Electric_Propulsion_Concepts_for_Fast_Missions_to_the_Outer_Solar_System_and_Beyond

An Argument in Favor of Magnetic Polarity Reversals Due to Heat Flux Variations in Fully Convective Stars and Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac8d57

Climate of high obliquity exo-terrestrial planets with a
three-dimensional cloud system resolving climate model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05094

Earth as an Exoplanet: II. Earth’s Time-Variable Thermal Emission and its Atmospheric Seasonality of Bio-Indicators
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05414

The Exoplanet Radius Valley from Gas-driven Planet Migration and Breaking of Resonant Chains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05595

October 11, 2022 updates

Key Technological Developments Enabling Human Cosmic Flight
https://osf.io/9587d/

What We Have Learned from our First Two Interstellar Visitors, and the Possibility of Fast Reactive Missions for Future Exploration
https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/FWS22/Session/N01.1

First JWST observations of a gravitational lens – Mass model from new multiple images with near-infrared observations of SMACS J0723.3−7327
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44517-22/aa44517-22.html

Trapping (sub-)Neptunes similar to TOI-216b at the inner disk rim – Implications for the disk viscosity and the Neptunian desert
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44461-22/aa44461-22.html

Orbital evolution of circumbinary planets due to creep tides https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44318-22/aa44318-22.html

Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. I
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8d6c

Alternative Methylated Biosignatures. I. Methyl Bromide, a Capstone Biosignature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac8799

Three-sided pyramid wavefront sensor. II. Preliminary demonstration on the new CACTI testbed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.0382

October 10. 2022 Updates

Drift Rates of Narrowband Signals in Long-term SETI Observations for Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac90bd

Characterisation of the NUV and Optical Emission and Temperature of Flares from Ross 733 with Swift and TESS
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2886/6753227?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Can Gaia find planets around white dwarfs?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2867/6753223?searchresult=1

Magnetic induction processes in Hot Jupiters, application to KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03351

Experimental and observational tests of antigravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03445