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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December 14, 2021 updates

One of the items we listed yesterday had an incorrect URL. We apologize for the error. Here is the correct listing:

BEBOP II: Sensitivity to sub-Saturn circumbinary planets using radial-velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05652

Now, today’s list.

Determining the “Biosignature Threshold” for Life Detection on Biotic, Abiotic, or Prebiotic Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0079

Atmospheric Escape Rates from Mars – If It Orbited an M Dwarf Star
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/953768

Progress on Understanding the Influence of Planetary Magnetic Fields on Atmospheric Escape Rates
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/947068

Venus as an Exoplanet: An Initial Exploration of the 3-D Structure of a CO2 Exoplanetary Atmosphere Around an M-Dwarf Star Type
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/977875

Estimating Ion Escape from Unmagnetized Planets
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/955370

Multiple moist climate equilibrium states on arid rocky M-dwarf planets: A last-saturation tracer analysis
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/960876

Numerous chondritic impactors and oxidized magma ocean set Earth’s volatile depletion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99240-w

Self-conscious intelligent technological societies in the universe: a simple direct approach to probable astrosociological realistic scenarios
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/selfconscious-intelligent-technological-societies-in-the-universe-a-simple-direct-approach-to-probable-astrosociological-realistic-scenarios/B1CBDC346070090C35762861BFA19BB7

Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full-frame Images
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2ee1

Modeling the High-resolution Emission Spectra of Clear and Cloudy Nontransiting Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2a2a

Planetary Habitability
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-2120-4

Cleaning our Hazy Lens: Statistical Trends in Transmission Spectra of Warm Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06173

Multi-Wavelength Mitigation of Stellar Activity in Astrometric Planet Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06383

The Gliese 86 Binary System: A Warm Jupiter Formed in a Disk Truncated at ≈2 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06394

BEBOP III. Observations and an independent mass measurement of Kepler-16 (AB) b — the first circumbinary planet detected with radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06584

A new method to measure the spectra of transiting exoplanet atmospheres using multi-object spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06678

December 13, 2021 Updates

The traditional approximation of rotation for rapidly rotating stars and planets II. Deformation and differential rotation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa41152-21/aa41152-21.html

Launch of a time machine
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407921022156

Terrestrial Planet Optical Phase Curves. I. Direct Measurements of the Earth
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3234

Minimal Data Fidelity for Stellar Feature and Companion Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3134

Giant planet imaged orbiting two massive stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03607-y

The Kepler IRIS Catalog: Image subtraction light curves for 9,150 stars in and around the open clusters NGC 6791 and NGC 6819
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05174

An Imaging Search for Post-Main-Sequence Planets of Sirius B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05234

An Integrative Analysis of the HD 219134 Planetary System and the Inner Solar System: Extending DYNAMITE with Enhanced Orbital Dynamical Stability Criteria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05337

Near-infrared transmission spectrum of TRAPPIST-1 h using Hubble WFC3 G141 observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05510

BEBOP II: Sensitivity to sub-Saturn circumbinary planets using radial-velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05652

December 10, 2021 updates

Probable detection of an eruptive filament from a superflare on a solar-type star
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01532-8

The winds of young, Solar-type stars in Coma Berenices and Hercules-Lyra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3557/6458363

Planetary Systems: A Very Short Introduction
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/planetary-systems-a-very-short-introduction-9780198841128

PlanetEvidence: Planet or Noise?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac174e

Navigation and star identification for an interstellar mission
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521006421

Final Report for SAG 22: A Target Star Archive for Exoplanet Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04517

Effect of clouds on emission spectra for Super Venus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04587

Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04663

The Transit Timing and Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter HAT-P-37b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04724

Atmospheric mass loss and stellar wind effects in young and old systems I: comparative 3D study of TOI-942 and TOI-421 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04815

Atmospheric mass loss and stellar wind effects in young and old systems II: Is TOI-942 the past of TOI-421 system?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04832

Planet-planet scattering in presence of a companion star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05012

HyDRo: Atmospheric Retrieval of Rocky Exoplanets in Thermal Emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05059

The Terrestrial Planet Formation around M Dwarfs: In-situ, Inward Migration or Reversed Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05075

December 9, 2021 updates

A wide-orbit giant planet in the high-mass b Centauri binary system
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04124-8

Kepler-223 resonance holds information about turbulence during the gas-disk phase
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa42176-21/aa42176-21.html

A Wide Planetary Mass Companion Discovered through the Citizen Science Project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac2499

Exoplanets in the Galactic context: Planet occurrence rates in the thin disk, thick disk and stellar halo of Kepler stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03927

A hot Mars-sized exoplanet transiting an M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03958

Geoastronomy: Rocky planets as the Lavosier-Lomonosov Bridge from the non-living to the living world
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.04309

December 8, 2021 updates

Auto-RSM: An automated parameter-selection algorithm for the RSM map exoplanet detection algorithm
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/12/aa41446-21/aa41446-21.html

Transit Timings Variations in the three-planet system: TOI-270
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3483/6454033

Stellar Surface Inhomogeneities as a Potential Source of the Atmospheric Signal Detected in the K2-18b Transmission Spectrum
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2824

Mining the Ultra-Hot Skies of HAT-P-70b: Detection of a Profusion of Neutral and Ionized Species
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03292

Automation Of Transiting Exoplanet Detection, Identification and Habitability Assessment Using Machine Learning Approaches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03298

The Ice Coverage of Earth-like Planets Orbiting FGK Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03372

The California Legacy Survey III. On The Shoulders of (Some) Giants: The Relationship between Inner Small Planets and Outer Massive Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03399

New constraints on the future evaporation of the young exoplanets in the V1298 Tau system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03739