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 25, 2022 updates

Revising Properties of Planet–Host Binary Systems. I. Methods and Pilot Study https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7be9

Identification of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362908989_Identification_of_carbon_dioxide_in_an_exoplanet_atmosphere

Weighing Exo-Atmospheres: A novel mid-resolution spectral mode for SCALES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11209

Transmission spectroscopy of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-4 b: Disentangling the hydrostatic and exospheric regimes of ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11427

August 23, 2022 updates

Planetary Engineering Ethics: Mechanisms, Issues, and Consequences of Terraforming
https://commons.und.edu/ee-stu/8/

A Solution to the Fermi Paradox Based on Adaptations and Diminishing Returns: On What Super-AIs Are Like and Why We Don’t See Them
https://osf.io/bq438/

First principles of terrestrial life: exemplars for potential extra-terrestrial biology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12064-022-00373-x

Extraterrestrial Life Signature Detection Microscopy: Search and Analysis of Cells and Organics on Mars and Other Solar System Bodies
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00920-4

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa40366-21/aa40366-21.html

Near-infrared and optical emission of WASP-5 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43131-22/aa43131-22.html

K2 and Spitzer phase curves of the rocky ultra-short-period planet K2-141 b hint at a tenuous rock vapor atmosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa42912-21/aa42912-21.html

A mini-chemical scheme with net reactions for 3D general circulation models – I. Thermochemical kinetics
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa42816-21/aa42816-21.html

Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: Early mass measurement, free floating planets, and exomoons
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa40351-21/aa40351-21.html

A Search for Optical Laser Emission from Alpha Centauri AB
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2231/6668809

The UV-SCOPE Mission: Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Characterization Of Planets and their Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09547

VapoRock: Thermodynamics of vaporized silicate melts for modeling volcanic outgassing and magma ocean atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.09582

Trapping (sub-)Neptunes similar to TOI-216b at the inner disk rim: Implications for the disk viscosity and the Neptunian desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10257

TOI-1468: A system of two transiting planets, a super-Earth and a mini-Neptune, on opposite sides of the radius valley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10351

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