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 02, 2022 updates

A direct numerical verification of tidal locking mechanism using the discrete element method
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-022-10093-5

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

MOA-2019-BLG-008Lb: A New Microlensing Detection of an Object at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac78ed

The TESS–Keck Survey. XIII. An Eccentric Hot Neptune with a Similar-mass Outer Companion around TOI-1272
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7ce1

Analytic Light Curve for Mutual Transits of Two Bodies Across a Limb-darkened Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac82b1

The final design of the iLocater spectrograph: An optimized architecture for diffraction-limited EPRV instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00009

The iLocater cryostat and thermal control system: enabling extremely precise radial velocity measurements for diffraction-limited spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00028

Fabrication of Pupil Masks for a New Infrared Exoplanet Imager at Keck Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00048

KMT-2017-BLG-0673Lb and KMT-2019-BLG-0414Lb: Two microlensing planets detected in peripheral fields of KMTNet survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00112

New Dynamical State and Habitability of the HD 45364 Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00120

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VII. Detection of sodium on the long-transiting inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00597

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00620

ACCESS: Tentative detection of H2O in the ground-based optical transmission spectrum of the low-density hot Saturn HATS-5b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00637

The JWST Early Release Science Program for the Direct Imaging & Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12972

September 01, 2022 updates

Observing exoplanets from Antarctica in two colours: set-up and operation of ASTEP+
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12182/121822O/Observing-exoplanets-from-Antarctica-in-two-colours–set-up/10.1117/12.2628952.short

The Earth 2.0 space mission analysis and spacecraft design
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/1218017/The-Earth-20-space-mission-analysis-and-spacecraft-design/10.1117/12.2629697.short

The Earth 2.0 space mission for detecting Earth-like planets around solar type stars
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/1218015/The-Earth-20-space-mission-for-detecting-Earth-like-planets/10.1117/12.2630656.short

Conceptual design study of the science payload for the Earth 2.0 mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/121804A/Conceptual-design-study-of-the-science-payload-for-the-Earth/10.1117/12.2630044.short

Science goals of the Earth 2.0 space mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/1218016/Science-goals-of-the-Earth-20-space-mission/10.1117/12.2630151.short

Transit least-squares survey – IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa41640-21/aa41640-21.html

3D Orbital Architecture of a Dwarf Binary System and Its Planetary Companion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7c66

Utilizing a global network of telescopes to update the ephemeris for the highly eccentric planet HD 80606 b and to ensure the efficient scheduling of JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14520

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems I: High Contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2-16 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14990

August 31, 2022 updates

Observable tests for the light-sail scenario of interstellar objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13818

Exoplanet imaging data challenge, phase II: characterization of exoplanet signals in high-contract images
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12185/2627968/Exoplanet-imaging-data-challenge-phase-II–characterization-of-exoplanet/10.1117/12.2627968.short

Imaging nearby, habitable-zone planets with the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12183/2635333/Imaging-nearby-habitable-zone-planets-with-the-Large-Binocular-Telescope/10.1117/12.2635333.short

GPI 2.0: Characterizing Self-Luminous Exoplanets Through Low-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13863

Mass Upper Bounds for Over 50 Kepler Planets Using Low-S/N Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14398

August 30, 2022 updates

Overview of The Galileo Project
https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/gp_overview.pdf

The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXXVI. Measurement of the
Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and revising the physical and orbital parameters of the HAT-P-15, HAT-P-17, HAT-P-21, HAT-P-26, HAT-P-29 eccentric planetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43742-22/aa43742-22.html

The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXXVII. A precise density measurement of the young ultra-short period planet TOI-1807 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43743-22/aa43743-22.html

Estimating the atmospheric properties of 44 M dwarfs from SPIRou spectra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2364/6678570

Dyson sphere building: On the design of the GTOC11 problem and summary of the results
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522004532

The Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI), a new instrument for rapid characterization of exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12184/2630196/The-Exoplanet-Transmission-Spectroscopy-Imager-ETSI-a-new-instrument-for/10.1117/12.2630196.short

The EXoplanet Climate Infrared TElescope (EXCITE)
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12184/2629373/The-EXoplanet-Climate-Infrared-TElescope-EXCITE/10.1117/12.2629373.short

ELVIS: the exoplanets at LBT with a visible IFS for SHARK-VIS
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12184/2629400/ELVIS–the-exoplanets-at-LBT-with-a-visible-IFS/10.1117/12.2629400.short

Unscented filtering for directly-observed exoplanet orbits
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/2629663/Unscented-filtering-for-directly-observed-exoplanet-orbits/10.1117/12.2629663.short

Throughput modeling of the Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS)
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12184/2630282/Throughput-modeling-of-the-Planet-as-Exoplanet-Analog-Spectrograph-PEAS/10.1117/12.2630282.short

The POET mission: a Canadian space telescope for exoplanet astrophysics
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/2630055/The-POET-mission–a-Canadian-space-telescope-for-exoplanet/10.1117/12.2630055.short

The Pandora SmallSat: a mission to spectroscopically study exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/2629546/The-Pandora-SmallSat–a-mission-to-spectroscopically-study-exoplanet/10.1117/12.2629546.short

Status update for MAPS, the MMT AO exoPlanet characterization System
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12185/2619434/Status-update-for-MAPS-the-MMT-AO-exoPlanet-characterization-System/10.1117/12.2619434.short

Experimental validation of exoplanet centring strategies for high dispersion coronagraphy
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12185/2629312/Experimental-validation-of-exoplanet-centring-strategies-for-high-dispersion-coronagraphy/10.1117/12.2629312.short

Diffractive interfero coronagraph exoplanet resolver (DICER): detecting and characterizing all Earth-like exoplanets orbiting Sun-like stars within 10 pc
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/2629487/Diffractive-interfero-coronagraph-exoplanet-resolver-DICER–detecting-and-characterizing/10.1117/12.2629487.short

MARVEL: extracting high-precision radial velocities of exoplanet hosts
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12186/2630748/MARVEL-extracting-high-precision-radial-velocities-of-exoplanet-hosts/10.1117/12.2630748.short

Characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres with SLOPpy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13045

Field of View and contrast limitations of stellar interferometers. A quick review
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13463

Nulling interferometry in space does not require a rotating telescope array
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13470

Parallel N-body simulations of planetary systems: a direct approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.13562

August 29, 2022 Updates

The H2O–CO2 continuum around 3.1, 5.2 and 8.0 μm: New measurements and validation of a previously proposed factor
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522003141

Validation of TESS exoplanet candidates orbiting solar analogues in the all-sky PLATO input catalogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12276

The In-Flight Noise Performance of the JWST/NIRSpec Detector System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12686

3-D selection of 167 sub-stellar companions to nearby stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12720