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 07, 2022 updates

Consequences of dynamically unstable moons in extrasolar systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2847/6750237

Estimating the depth of gaps opened by planets in eccentric orbit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2856/6750245

celmech: A Python Package for Celestial Mechanics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8d01

Extremely Inclined Orbit of the S-type Planet γ Cep Ab Induced by the Eccentric Kozai–Lidov Mechanism
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8f4c

Lava World: Exoplanet Surfaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03056

Exoplanet atmosphere evolution: emulation with neural networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15162

Roaring Storms in the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b: Hubble Space Telescope Multi-epoch Monitoring Reveals Vigorous Evolution in an Ultra-cool Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02464

A Catalog of Habitable Zone Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02484

Simulating reflected light coronagraphy of Earth-like exoplanets with a large IR/O/UV space telescope: impact and calibration of smooth exozodiacal dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03098

October 06, 2022 updates

Obstacles from interstellar matters and distortion in warp drive superluminal travel scenario
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10840-w

Exoplanet Hunting Using Machine Learning
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-4193-1_67

Life on Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone of M Dwarfs?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9052

MOA-2020-BLG-208: Cool Sub-Saturn Planet Within Predicted Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02436

October 05, 2022 updates

Half-sibling regression meets exoplanet imaging: PSF modeling and subtraction using a flexible, domain knowledge-driven, causal framework https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa42529-21/aa42529-21.html

Is binning always sinning? The impact of time-averaging for exoplanet phase-curves
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2828/6748218

MIRECLE: Science Yield for a Mid-infrared Explorer-class Mission to Study Nontransiting Rocky Planets Orbiting the Nearest M Stars Using Planetary Infrared Excess
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac83a5

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): VIII. Detecting rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01782

Panoramic SETI: Program Update and High-Energy Astrophysics Applications https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01356

No evidence for radius inflation in hot Jupiters from vertical advection of heat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01466

October 04, 2022 updates

Event-Based Safety and Reliability Analysis Integration in Model-Based Space Mission Design
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0951832022004835

Civilizations Through the Eye of Kardashev: An Extended Scaling
https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/IAC-2022-Civilizations_Through_the_Eye_of_Kardashev_An_Extended_Scaling_pdf/21197293

Pulsar Candidate Selection Using a Genetic Fuzzy System
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-16038-7_28

Japan’s Prime-focus Infrared Microlensing Experiment (PRIME) telescope http://www-ir.ess.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp/prime/index.html

Transmission spectroscopy of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-4 b – Disentangling the hydrostatic and exospheric regimes of ultra-hot Jupiters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44203-22/aa44203-22.html

Evaluating the Plausible Range of N2O Biosignatures on Exo-Earths: An Integrated Biogeochemical, Photochemical, and Spectral Modeling Approach
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac8cfb

CO2 ocean bistability on terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00149

Orbital Stability of Proposed NY Virginis Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00214

NGTS-21b: An Inflated Super-Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-poor K dwarf https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01027

October 3, 2022 Updates

Evaporation before disruption: comparing timescales for Jovian planets in star-forming regions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2797/6731783?redirectedFrom=fulltext

High resolution ALMA and HST imaging of κ CrB: a broad debris disc around a post-main sequence star with low-mass companions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2782/6731658?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Improving Power Spectral Estimation using Multitapering: Precise asteroseismic modeling of stars, exoplanets, and beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15027

Assessing Potential Contributions from Outgassing and Tidal Effects on the Evolving Rotational State of 1I/’Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15074

Geopolitical Implications of a Successful SETI Program
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15125

Atmospheric retrievals for LIFE and other future space missions: the importance of mitigating systematic effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15403