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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February 13, 2023 Updates

Peering into the young planetary system AB Pic
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa44294-22/aa44294-22.html

Analyzing the engineering feasibility of the direct fusion drive
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576523000632

EXPLANATION: Exoplanet and Transient Events Investigation Project
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1990341322040186

FluxCT: A Web Tool for Identifying Contaminating Flux in Kepler and TESS Target Pixel Files
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acb936

Searching for Gravitational-Wave Counterparts using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04881

Chaotic winds from a dying planet: a one-dimensional map for evolving atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04898

Validating AU Microscopii d with Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04922

Presence of liquid water during the evolution of exomoons orbiting ejected free-floating planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04946

Detecting Solar System Analogs through Joint Radial Velocity/Astrometric Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05064

Microlensing due to free-floating moon-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05230

Astrometric Accelerations as Dynamical Beacons: A Giant Planet Imaged Inside the Debris Disk of the Young Star AF Lep
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05420

February 10, 2023 updates

KA Observatory (SKAO): A guide to the soon-to-be largest radio telescopes in the world
https://www.space.com/square-kilometre-array-observatory-skao

Synergies Between Venus & Exoplanetary Observations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-023-00953-3

Impact of Correlated Noise on the Mass Precision of Earth-analog Planets in Radial Velocity Surveys
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acad08

A Reanalysis of the Composition of K2-106b: An Ultra-short-period Super-Mercury Candidate
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acb04b

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. V. Improved Light-curve Classification for TESS Full-frame Image Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acad85

TESS Discovery of Twin Planets near 2:1 Resonance around Early M Dwarf TOI 4342
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acaf88

The Runaway Greenhouse on Sub-Neptune Waterworlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acafdf

Correcting Exoplanet Transmission Spectra for Stellar Activity with an Optimised Retrieval Framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04574

Pathways of Survival of Exomoons and Inner Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04646

The hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO III: A blue-shifted tentative water signal constrains the presence of clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04794

February 09, 2023 updates

A full transit of ν2 Lupi d and the search for an exomoon in its Hill sphere with CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01853

Civilization Scale According To The Speed Of Light
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Remzi-Yildirim/publication/367117268_2-Final-Mod-B12011224/links/63c19cefd9fb5967c2d34066/2-Final-Mod-B12011224.pdf

Nonthermal Atmospheric Losses for the Exoplanet GJ 3470b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772922110051

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – VII. Practical
implementation of a five-telescope kernel-nulling beam combiner with a discussion on instrumental uncertainties and redundancy benefits https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa43863-22/aa43863-22.html

Electrical resistivity of liquid Fe-8wt%S-4.5wt%Si at high pressures with implications for heat flux through the cores of Io and sub-earth exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103523000490

EDEN Survey: Small Transiting Planet Detection Limits and Constraints on the Occurrence Rates for Late M Dwarfs within 15 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04138

The Occurrence Rate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Nearby Mid-to-late M Dwarfs from TESS Sectors 1-42
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04242

February 09, 2023 updates

A full transit of ν2 Lupi d and the search for an exomoon in its Hill sphere with CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01853

Civilization Scale According To The Speed Of Light
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Remzi-Yildirim/publication/367117268_2-Final-Mod-B12011224/links/63c19cefd9fb5967c2d34066/2-Final-Mod-B12011224.pdf

Nonthermal Atmospheric Losses for the Exoplanet GJ 3470b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772922110051

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – VII. Practical implementation of a five-telescope kernel-nulling beam combiner with a discussion on instrumental uncertainties and redundancy benefits https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa43863-22/aa43863-22.html

Electrical resistivity of liquid Fe-8wt%S-4.5wt%Si at high pressures with implications for heat flux through the cores of Io and sub-earth exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103523000490

EDEN Survey: Small Transiting Planet Detection Limits and Constraints on the Occurrence Rates for Late M Dwarfs within 15 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04138

The Occurrence Rate of Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Nearby Mid-to-late M Dwarfs from TESS Sectors 1-42
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04242

February 08, 2023 updates

Updated characterization of long-period single companion by combining radial velocity, relative astrometry, and absolute astrometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa45396-22/aa45396-22.html

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South I: Composition and Climate of the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-18 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acaf5c

TOI-561 b: A Low-density Ultra-short-period “Rocky” Planet around a Metal-poor Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acad83

The Demographics of Terrestrial Planets in the Venus Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03055

When, where, and how many planets end up in first-order resonances?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03070