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 11, 2022 updates

Photobombing Earth 2.0: Diffraction-limit-related Contamination and Uncertainty in Habitable Planet Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac7b93

Planetary core radii: from Plato towards PLATO
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065268722000036

Eccentric debris belts reveal the dynamical history of the companion exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05041

Growth and Evolution of Secondary Volcanic Atmospheres: II. The Importance of Kinetics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05338

Inferred Properties of Planets in Mean-Motion Resonances are Biased by Measurement Noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05423

August 10, 2022 updates

HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG – XV. Planetary occurrence rates around early-M dwarfs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa42828-21/aa42828-21.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

Measuring Elemental Abundances of JWST Target Stars for Exoplanet Characterization. I. FGK Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7de3

Impact induced atmosphere-mantle exchange sets the volatile elemental ratios on primitive Earths
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X22003776

Volcanic Exoplanet Surfaces
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2198/6659187

System Architecture and Planetary Obliquity: Implications for Long-Term Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04439

Statistical tests with multi-wavelength Kernel-phase analysis for the detection and characterization of planetary companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04594

Unifying High- and Low-resolution Observations to Constrain the Dayside Atmosphere of KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04759

The stable climate of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04818

Direct Discovery of the Inner Exoplanet in the HD206893 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04867

Post-Newtonian effects on some characteristic timescales of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04628

Neural-Rendezvous: Learning-based Robust Guidance and Control to Encounter Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04883

August 09, 2022 updates

Optimum design of nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft for deep space exploration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484722014123

Detailed stellar activity analysis and modelling of GJ 832 – Reassessment of the putative habitable zone planet GJ 832c
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43063-22/aa43063-22.html

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – II. Signal simulation, signal extraction, and fundamental exoplanet parameters from single-epoch observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa41958-21/aa41958-21.html

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – III. Spectral resolution, wavelength range, and sensitivity requirements based on atmospheric retrieval analyses of an exo-Earth
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa41964-21/aa41964-21.html

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – IV. Ideal kernel-nulling array architectures for a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43107-22/aa43107-22.html

Systematic KMTNet planetary anomaly search – V. Complete sample of 2018 prime-field
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43744-22/aa43744-22.html

The Role of Water Vapor in the Response of the Extratropical Circulation of Earth-like Planets to Obliquity Changes
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JD036003

Variability from thermo-resistive instability in the atmospheres of hot jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03387

Modeling Hα and He 10830 transmission spectrum of WASP-52b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03916

OGLE-2019-BLG-0362Lb: A super-Jovian-mass planet around a low-mass star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04230

How gravitational fluctuations degrade the high-dimensional spatial entanglement
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.04000

August 05, 2022 updates

Exploring the deep atmospheres of HD 209458b and WASP-43b using a non-gray general circulation model
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa42728-21/aa42728-21.html

The Hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO I: Refining the planetary architecture and stellar variability
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2178/6656010

TOI-3757 b: A Low-density Gas Giant Orbiting a Solar-metallicity M Dwarf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7c20

Spectropolarimetry of life: airborne measurements from a hot air balloon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02317

Sensitive Multi-beam Targeted SETI Observations towards 33 Exoplanet Systems with FAST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02421

Drift Rates of Narrow-band Signals in Long-term SETI Observations for Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02511