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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September 09, 2022 updates

Three types of planets orbit red dwarfs
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add7175

Density, not radius, separates rocky and water-rich small planets orbiting M dwarf stars
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl7164

The Study of Atmosphere of Hot Jupiters and Their Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03669

Constraining planetary mass-loss rates by simulating Parker wind profiles with Cloudy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03677

Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets III: Analysis of Three Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03886

CHEOPS finds KELT-1b darker than expected in visible light: Discrepancy between the CHEOPS and TESS eclipse depths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03890

A direct N-body integrator for modelling the chaotic, tidal dynamics of multi-body extrasolar systems: TIDYMESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03955

September 08, 2022 updates

The Space Value of Money
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-59489-1

Universal energy currencies at the origin of life
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151234/

Artificial gravity partially protects space-induced neurological deficits in Drosophila melanogaster
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01099-3

Tidal excitation of auto-resonant oscillations in stars with close-by planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43700-22/aa43700-22.html

Finding Exoplanets Using NASA’s Kepler Telescope
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363263271_Finding_Exoplanets_Using_NASA%27s_Kepler_Telescope

Two temperate super-Earths transiting a nearby late-type M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02831

Life on Exoplanets In the Habitable Zone of M-Dwarfs?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02860

High-Resolution spectral models of TRAPPIST-1e seen as a Pale Blue Dot for ELT and JWST observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02875

Hot Earth or Young Venus? A nearby transiting rocky planet mystery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03105

Twinkle — a small satellite spectroscopy mission for the next phase of exoplanet science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03337

September 07, 2022 updates

Tentative Evidence for Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the
Neptune-sized Exoplanet HD 106315c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac85be

Extremely Inclined Orbit of S-type Planet γ Cep Ab Induced by Eccentric Kozai-Lidov Mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01472

Detection of Paschen β absorption in the atmosphere of KELT-9 b: A new window into the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01854

Upgrading the high contrast imaging facility SPHERE: science drivers and instrument choices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02092

Smaller Sensitivity of Precipitation to Surface Temperature under Massive Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02294

Impact of stellar flares on the chemical composition and transmission spectra of gaseous exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02483

Overview of the Galileo Project
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02479

Optimum Location to Intercept Interstellar Objects with Build-and-wait Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01392

September 5, 2022 Updates

Potential Habitability as a Stellar Property: Asessing the Habitable
Histories of Stellar Systems
https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/26224

Important Elements of the Anthropic Principle
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362875762_Important_Elements_of_the_Anthropic_Principle

Convective inhibition with an ocean
I. Supercritical cores on sub-Neptunes/super-Earths
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43359-22/aa43359-22.html

Exoplanet CO2 spotted for first time
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922015585

Carbon dioxide detected around alien world for first time
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade6578

Webb telescope wows with first image of an exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02807-4

A massive planet circles a huge star doomed to explode
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02166-0

Rethinking the role of the giant planet instability in terrestrial planet formation models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00706

RVSPY — Radial Velocity Survey for Planets around Young Stars. Target characterization and high-cadence survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01125