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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August 22, 2022 Updates

Interstellar Propulsion Using Laser-Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion Physics
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/8/8/421

A causal limit to communication within an expanding cosmological civilization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07871

The nutshell kings: Why is human space settlement controversial in the first place?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328722001239

GJ 229B: Solving the Puzzle of the First Known T Dwarf with the APOLLO Retrieval Code
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5590

On Icy Ocean Worlds, Size Controls Ice Shell Geometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7a32

The GAPS Programme at TNG XXXIX. Multiple Molecular Species in the Atmosphere of the Warm Giant Planet WASP-80 b Unveiled at High Resolution with GIANO-B
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac80bf

A Tendency Toward Alignment in Single-star Warm-Jupiter Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8153

The SHARDDS survey: limits on planet occurrence rates based on point sources analysis via the Auto-RSM framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09204

Attempt to obtain the general relativistic planet’s motion by special relativity techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09297

Is ozone a reliable proxy for molecular oxygen? I. The O2-O3 relationship for Earth-like atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09415

Rogue planets and brown dwarfs: Predicting the populations free-floating planetary mass objects observable with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09465

GJ 1252b: A Hot Terrestrial Super-Earth With No Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09479

August 19, 2022 Updates

A search for transiting planets around hot subdwarfs II. Supplementary methods and results from TESS Cycle 1
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43554-22/aa43554-22.html

Planetary geology: an historical and philosophical overview
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.12401

Hunt for interstellar meteorite on sea floor
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407922014749

OGLE-2019-BLG-1470LABc: Another Microlensing Giant Planet in a Binary System?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2315/6671550?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Combining Photometry and Astrometry to Improve Orbit Retrieval of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08447

On the Masses, Age, and Architecture of the VHS J1256-1257AB b System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08448

A Novel Survey for Young Substellar Objects with the W band Filter.V. IC 348 and Barnard 5 in the Perseus Cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08637

August 18, 2022 Updates

Planetary Protection Assessment of Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)–Powered Landed Missions to Ocean Worlds: Application to Enceladus
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2432

A search for transiting planets around hot subdwarfs – II. Supplementary methods and results from TESS Cycle 1
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43554-22/aa43554-22.html

KMT-2021-BLG-0240: Microlensing event with a deformed planetary signal
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43161-22/aa43161-22.html

The California Legacy Survey. III. On the Shoulders of (Some) Giants: The Relationship between Inner Small Planets and Outer Massive Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac7230

FIESTA II. Disentangling Stellar and Instrumental Variability from Exoplanetary Doppler Shifts in the Fourier Domain
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac77ec

HST UV Spectroscopy of the Planet-Hosting T Tauri Star PDS 70
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07956

Per aspera ad astra simul: Through difficulties to the stars together
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08134

August 16, 2022 Updates

Photobombing Earth 2.0: Diffraction Limit Related Contamination and Uncertainty in Habitable Planet Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06443

Thermal Evolution and magnetic history of rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06523

Atmospheric Thermal Emission Effect on Chandrasekhar’s Finite Atmosphere Problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06656

Precise mass determination for the keystone sub-Neptune planet transiting the mid-type M dwarf G 9-40
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07287

TOI-836: A super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07328