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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January 10, 2023 updates

Refined MagSail thrust model for preliminary mission design and trajectory optimization
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S127096382300010X

The Abundance of Belatedly Habitable Planets and Ambiguities in Definitions of the Continuously Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02961

Optical Properties of Organic Hazes in Water-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres: Implications for Observations with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02745

A JWST NIRSpec phase curve for WASP-121b: dayside emission strongest eastward of the substellar point and nightside conditions conducive to cloud formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03209

Low-order wavefront control using a Zernike sensor through Lyot coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging: II. Concurrent operation with stroke minimization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03242

A rocky exoplanet classification method and its application to calculating surface pressure and surface temperature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03348

Twenty-five years of exoplanet discoveries: The exoplanet hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03442

Redox state and interior structure control on the long-term habitability of stagnant-lid planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03466

The exoplanetary magnetosphere extension in Sun-like stars based on the solar wind — solar UV relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01554

January 09, 2023 Updates

Affordances From Outer Space: Forms of Life, Material Engagement, and Meaning within Space Exploration and SETI
https://psyarxiv.com/9frzj/

The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) Mission Overview
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02250

A framework for the architecture of exoplanetary systems. II. Nature versus nurture: Emergent formation pathways of architecture classes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02373

A framework for the architecture of exoplanetary systems. I. Four classes of planetary system architecture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02374

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs, Wolf 1069 b: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby, very low-mass star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02477

Longterm Stability of Planetary Systems formed from a Transitional Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02486

Early Insights for Atmospheric Retrievals of Exoplanets using JWST Transit Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02564

Diverse Carbonates in Exoplanet Oceans Promote the Carbon Cycle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02652

January 06, 2023 updates

Mean motion resonance capture in the context of type I migration https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa44460-22/aa44460-22.html

Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine – Exploring the Implications of Life in the Universe
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/astrobiology-and-christian-doctrine/3F96E8C3EEA3B1C8832155BF261D4D31

Diverse Carbonates in Exoplanet Oceans Promote the Carbon Cycle
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aca90c

20 s Cadence TESS Photometry of HR 8799
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acafea

A Gaian Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02150

In Search of the Edge: A Bayesian Exploration of the Detectability of Red Edges in Exoplanet Reflection Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01775

False Alarms Revealed in a Planet Search of TESS Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01900

Simulated performance of the molecular mapping for young giant exoplanets with the Medium Resolution Spectrometer of JWST/MIRI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02116

An Equation of State of CO for use in Planetary Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02176

January 05, 2023 updates

A deep radius valley revealed by Kepler short cadence observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3802/6969428

Non-LTE spectroscopy of the tetradecad region of methane recorded in a hypersonic flow
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522005139

Wormhole solutions in Rastall-like-torsion-trace gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907322003070

The K2 & TESS Synergy II: Revisiting 26 systems in the TESS Primary Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01306

TESS Discovery of Twin Planets near 2:1 Resonance around Early M-Dwarf TOI 4342
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01370

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. V. Improved Light Curve Classification for TESS Full Frame Image Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01371

A kinematically-detected planet candidate in a transition disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01684

Diagnosing limb asymmetries in hot and ultra-hot Jupiters with high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01694