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 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

August 15, 2022 Updates

Characterization of Kepler targets based on medium-resolution LAMOST spectra analyzed with ROTFIT
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43268-22/aa43268-22.html

Three new brown dwarfs and a massive hot Jupiter revealed by TESS around early-type stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43454-22/aa43454-22.html

OWL-Moon: Very high resolution spectropolarimetric interferometry and imaging from the Moon: exoplanets to cosmology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05971

Signatures of impact-driven atmospheric loss in large ensembles of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05989

Exoplanet Radio Transits as a Probe for Exoplanetary Magnetic Fields — Time-dependent MHD Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06006

Fractional Order Analysis of the Polytropic Models Applied to Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06045

Solar and stellar activity cycles — no synchronization with exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06190

Greater climate sensitivity and variability on TRAPPIST-1e than Earth
Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/2208.06297

TOI-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS reveal a super-Earth in a temperate orbit transiting an M4 dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06333

HD 56414 b: A Warm Neptune Transiting an A-type Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06396

August 12, 2022 updates

NameExoWorlds
https://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/

Modern Estimate for Earth-like Planets in the Vicinity of the Solar System
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362346616_Modern_Estimate_for_Earth-like_Planets_in_the_Vicinity_of_the_Solar_System

Searching for biosignatures by their rotational spectrum: global fit and methyl group internal rotation features of dimethylsulphoxide up to 116 GHz
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/searching-for-biosignatures-by-their-rotational-spectrum-global-fit-and-methyl-group-internal-rotation-features-of-dimethylsulphoxide-up-to-116-ghz/2A6D1E3B3E9EB33E5248623D631A0088

The Mantis Network II: Examining the 3D high-resolution observable properties of the UHJs WASP-121b and WASP-189b through GCM modelling
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2246/6661430

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

TOI-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS Reveal a Super-Earth in a Temperate Orbit Transiting an M4 Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7cea

Implicit Biases in Transit Models Using Stellar Pseudo Density
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7f2f

Tidal insights into rocky and icy bodies: an introduction and overview https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065268722000048

Synthesis and Stability of an Eight-Coordinated Fe3O4 High-Pressure Phase: Implications for the Mantle Structure of Super-Earths
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007344

Misaligned circumbinary disks as efficient progenitors of interstellar asteroids
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05874

Jupiter and Saturn as Spectral Analogs for Extrasolar Gas Giants and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05541

Exoplanet weather and climate regimes with clouds and thermal ionospheres: A model grid study in support of large-scale observational campaigns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05562

Atmospheric Monitoring and Precise Spectroscopy of the HR 8799 Planets with SCExAO/CHARIS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05594

TOI-2196 b: Rare planet in the hot Neptune desert transiting a G-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05797

How Thin and Efficient Can a Metasurface Reflector Be? Universal Bounds on Reflection for Any Direction and Polarization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05533