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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March 30, 2023 updates

Structural properties of generalized embedded wormhole solutions via dark matter halos in Einsteinian-cubic-gravity with quasi-periodic oscillations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686423000481

Revealing the atmospheres of highly irradiated exoplanets: from ultra-hot Jupiters to rocky worlds
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-023-04183-5

The ultraviolet habitable zone of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16229

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. IX. Complete Sample of 2016 Prime-Field Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16881

March 29, 2023 updates

Chaotic winds from a dying world: a one-dimensional map for evolving atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad932/7091932

Dymnikova-Schwinger traversable wormholes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/03/055

Sporadic Spin-orbit Variations in Compact Multiplanet Systems and Their Influence on Exoplanet Climate
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acbd33

Interstellar Probe: Fifteen Years to the Interstellar Medium with An Enhanced NASA Space Launch System
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369474788_Interstellar_Probe_Fifteen_Years_to_the_Interstellar_Medium_with_An_Enhanced_NASA_Space_Launch_System

Validation of TOI-1221 b: A warm sub-Neptune exhibiting TTVs around a Sun-like star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.13651

Rebuilding the Habitable Zone from the Bottom Up with Computational Zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16111

March 28, 2023 updates

Suspended Animation for Deep Space Flight and Human Preservation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369452264_SUSPENDED_ANIMATION_FOR_DEEP_SPACE_FLIGHT_AND_HUMAN_PRESERVATION

Thermal Emission from the Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using JWST https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05951-7

High atmospheric metal enrichment for a Saturn-mass planet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05984-y

The geometric albedo of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b measured with CHEOPS https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/04/aa45016-22/aa45016-22.html

TOI-2525 b and c: A Pair of Massive Warm Giant Planets with Strong Transit Timing Variations Revealed by TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acba9b

Revising Properties of Planet–Host Binary Systems. III. There Is No Observed Radius Gap for Kepler Planets in Binary Star Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbdf9

Detection Rate of <50-meter Interstellar Objects with LSST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14766

Planetary migration timescale and influence on life’s ability to occupy a habitable Zone
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369501824_Planetary_migration_timescale_and_influence_on_life%27s_ability_to_occupy_a_habitable_Zone

Stability and detectability of exomoons orbiting HIP 41378 f, a temperate Jovian planet with an anomalously low apparent density
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14294

Photochemically-produced SO2 in the atmosphere of WASP-39b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10490

Day ‘N’ Nite: Habitability of Tidally Locked Planets with Sporadic Rotation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14546

A High-Eccentricity Warm Jupiter Orbiting TOI-4127
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14570

Fishing for Planets: A Comparative Analysis of EPRV Survey Performance in the Presence of Correlated Noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14571

Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15080

Remarks on compressible convection in Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15153

The evolution of catastrophically evaporating rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15200

Towards robust corrections for stellar contamination in JWST exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15418

The Effect of Dust and Hotspots on the Thermal Stability of Laser Sails
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14165

March 27, 2023 Updates

Near, Far, Wherever We Are: Space Exploration Urgently Needs an Ethics-Informed Planning Revolution
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-023-00135-x

The Hubble/STIS near-ultraviolet transmission spectrum of HD 189733 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45064-22/aa45064-22.html

A puffy polar planet – The low density, hot Jupiter TOI-640 b is on a polar orbit
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45301-22/aa45301-22.html

An automatic assisted drill system for sampling deep layer regolith of extraterrestrial celestial bodies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523001455

Acceleration of 1I/`Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13698

Thermal Emission from the Hot Jupiter WASP-103b in J and Ks Bands
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13732

Implications of evaporative cooling by H2 for 1I/`Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13861

March 24, 2023 updates

The JWST Early-release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 μm Spectrum of the Planetary-mass Companion VHS 1256–1257 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb04a

MOA-2020-BLG-208Lb: Cool Sub-Saturn-mass Planet within Predicted Desert https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbcc8

Dynamical Evolution of Closely Packed Multiple Planetary Systems Subject to Atmospheric Mass Loss
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acc070

Observation and feature measurements of cloud and haze in exoplanet atmosphere based on transmission spectra
https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HSET/article/view/5738

A Catalogue of Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Codes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12925

Coronal X-Ray Emission from Nearby, Low-Mass, Exoplanet Host Stars Observed by the MUSCLES and Mega-MUSCLES HST Treasury Survey Projects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12929

Tentative detection of titanium oxide in the atmosphere of WASP-69 b with a 4m ground-based telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13202

An extreme test case for planet formation: a close-in Neptune orbiting an ultracool star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13321