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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May 24, 2023 updates

Isotopic constraints on lightning as a source of fixed nitrogen in Earth’s early biosphere
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01187-2

The Mantis Network – III. Expanding the limits of chemical searches within ultra-hot Jupiters: New detections of Ca I, V I, Ti I, Cr I, Ni I, Sr II, Ba II, and Tb II in KELT-9 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/05/aa45121-22/aa45121-22.html

Awesome SOSS: Atmospheric characterisation of WASP-96 b using the JWST early release observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1547/7177537

An In-depth Look at TOI-3884b: A Super-Neptune Transiting an M4Dwarf with Persistent Starspot Crossings
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/accc2f

Operational performance parameter range in ICF propulsion theory https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576523002710

Scaling K2. VI. Reduced Small Planet Occurrence in High Galactic Amplitude Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13389

The Spin-Orbit Misalignment of TOI-1842b: The First Measurement of the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect for a Warm Sub-Saturn around a Massive Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13397

Ponderings on the Possible Preponderance of Perpendicular Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13400

Structure of the planetary 2:1 MMR.Mapping the structure of the planetary 2:1 mean motion resonance. The TOI-216, K2-24, and HD27894 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14198

May 23, 2023 updates

Distance pattern and spacing of the multiplanet systems in TESS data https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/1167/1/012005

Deep Space Navigation by Optical Pulsars
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G007282

First contact: Global team to simulate message from extraterrestrial intelligence to Earth
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-contact-global-team-simulate-message.html

The Next Generation Arecibo Telescope: A preliminary study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07780

Orbital Decay of Hot Jupiters due to Weakly Nonlinear Tidal Dissipation https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11974

May 22, 2023 Updates

Human Physiological Limitations to Long-Term Spaceflight and Living in Space
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/asma/amhp/2023/00000094/00000006/art00008

Transfer from Lunar Gateway to Sun-Earth Halo Orbits Using Solar Sails
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35559

Assessing Exoplanet Habitability through Data-driven Approaches: A Comprehensive Literature Review
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11204

The 14 Her Planetary System: Companion Masses and Architecture from Radial Velocities and Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11753

May 19, 2023 updates

Grey wolf optimization and enhanced stochastic fractal search algorithm for exoplanet detection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04024-y

Detection of separatrices and chaotic seas based on orbit amplitudes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-023-10143-6

Life on the Edge: Bioprospecting Extremophiles for Astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41745-023-00382-9

On the behaviour of spin–orbit connection of exoplanets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-01976-0

The mass of TOI-519 b: A close-in giant planet transiting a metal-rich mid-M dwarf
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pasj/psad031/7173171

A 1.55 R⨁ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715, an M4 star near the ecliptic South Pole
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1439/7172075

A spectroscopic thermometer: individual vibrational band spectroscopy with the example of OH in the atmosphere of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11071

May 18, 2023 updates

A temperate Earth-sized planet with tidal heating transiting an M6 star
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05934-8

Wormholes and energy conditions in f(R,T) gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07541

Variability of Known Exoplanet Host Stars Observed by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09687

Testing 2D temperature models in Bayesian retrievals of atmospheric properties from hot Jupiter phase curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10249

Detecting Exoplanets Closer to Stars with Moderate Spectral Resolution Integral-Field Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10362

Constraining the Thickness of the Atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1 b from its JWST Secondary Eclipse Observation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10414

An In-Depth Look at TOI-3884b: a Super-Neptune Transiting a M4 Dwarf with Persistent Star Spot Crossings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04757