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 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

August 04, 2022 updates

Dynamics of co-orbital exoplanets in a first-order resonance chain with tidal dissipation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43261-22/aa43261-22.html

High-performance solar sails for interstellar object rendezvous https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522004003

Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres III. Revised planetary parameters and mass-loss rates for nearby gaseous planets after Gaia DR2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01650

August 03, 2022 updates

Understanding Life in the Universe
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/understanding-life-in-the-universe/795DF10662E5F31A35F2DDFDE05B32CA

Moon-packing around an Earth-mass Planet
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2172/6653105

Orbital Characterization of Superbolides Observed from Space: Dynamical Association with Near-Earth Objects, Meteoroid Streams, and Identification of Hyperbolic Meteoroids
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac75d2

Less Effective Hydrodynamic Escape of H2–H2O Atmospheres on Terrestrial Planets Orbiting Pre-main-sequence M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac7be7

Planetary Science Opportunities for Heliospheric/Interstellar Probe Missions https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/9789811260100_0070

The Space Coronagraph Optical Bench (SCoOB): 1. Design and Assembly of a Vacuum-compatible Coronagraph Testbed for Spaceborne High-Contrast Imaging Technology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01156

The space coronagraph optical bench (SCoOB): 2. wavefront sensing and control in a vacuum-compatible coronagraph testbed for spaceborne high-contrast imaging technology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01155

Datumless Topography: A Universally Consistent Way to Quantify Relief
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01600