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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July 11, 2022 Updates

Ice Shell Structure and Composition of Ocean Worlds: Insights from Accreted Ice on Earth
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0044

The morphology of the HD 163296 jet as a window on its planetary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42862-21/aa42862-21.html

Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest III
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20224017

Numerical experiments on thermal convection of highly compressible fluids with variable viscosity and thermal conductivity in two-dimensional cylindrical geometry: Implications for mantle convection of super-Earths
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gji/ggac259/6638987?searchresult=1

Delivery of gas onto the circumplanetary disk of giant planets: Planetary-mass dependence of the source region of accreting gas and mass accretion rate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03664

Semi-supervised standardized detection of extrasolar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03740

Flares and rotation of M dwarfs with habitable zones accessible to TESS planet detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03794

Two long-period transiting exoplanets on eccentric orbits: NGTS-20 b (TOI-5152 b) and TOI-5153 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03911

July 8, 2022 updates

Molecular Precursors of the RNA-World in Space: New Nitriles in the G+0.693−0.027 Molecular Cloud
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.876870/full

Self-replicating probes are imminent – implications for SETI
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/selfreplicating-probes-are-imminent-implications-for-seti/2CB214D26020D497D48AE489756BEE77

Curbing the fruitfulness of self-replicating machines
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/curbing-the-fruitfulness-of-selfreplicating-machines/2B67DD2951C7E20C4103DD40D87D6641

A mission architecture to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03005

The GAPS Programme at TNG XL: A puffy and warm Neptune-sized planet and an outer Neptune-mass candidate orbiting the solar-type star TOI-1422
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03293

ACCESS: Confirmation of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-96b and a Comparison of Light Curve Detrending Techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03479

July 7, 2022 updates

Frontiers in Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-022-09622-x

TESS Observations of Kepler Systems with Transit Timing Variations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7396

Predictions for Observable Atmospheres of Trappist-1 Planets from a Fully Coupled Atmosphere–Interior Evolution Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac69cb

Exploring refractory organics in extraterrestrial particles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02537

July 5, 2022 updates

Drake’s Equation and Fermi’s Paradox,Logic Behind the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
http://comenius.susqu.edu/hons/250/weekly_assignments/paths%20of%20science%20revisions/paths-of-science-2/drake%20equation%20and%20fermi’s%20paradox.pdf

Trajectory Analysis and Optimization of Hesperides Mission
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/8/7/364

Initial Components and Abiogenic Homochiral Organic Synthesis Ere the Origin of Life
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir-Zhmakin/publication/361443579_Initial_Components_and_Abiogenic_Homochiral_Organic_Synthesis_Ere_the_Origin_of_Life/links/62b1d3c6d49f803365ae4d5c/Initial-Components-and-Abiogenic-Homochiral-Organic-Synthesis-Ere-the-Origin-of-Life.pdf

Prebiotic Chemistry and Life’s Origin
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78801-749-7

Precise astrometry: Earth Analogs and Beyond
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-022-09860-x

Detecting exoplanets with the false inclusion probability – Comparison with other detection criteria in the context of radial velocities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa40543-21/aa40543-21.html

Climate Outcomes of Earth-similar Worlds as a Function of Obliquity and Rotation Rate
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6951

The Volatile Carbon-to-oxygen Ratio as a Tracer for the Formation Locations of Interstellar Comets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac75b5

False positives and the challenge of testing the alien hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00634

Searching for Transit Timing Variations and Fitting a New Ephemeris to Transits of TrES-1 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01559

A new method to correct for host star variability in multi-epoch observations of exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01606