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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June 24, 2022 updates

Spatially-resolving the terminator: Variation of Fe, temperature and winds in WASP-76 b across planetary limbs and orbital phase
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1744/6615469

Tidal Heating of Exomoons in Resonance and Implications for Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11368

Stable lifetime of compact, evenly-spaced planetary systems with non-equal masses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11374

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. VI. Complete Sample of 2018 Sub-Prime-Field Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11409

Solid Accretion onto Neptune-Mass Planets I: In-Situ Accretion and Constraints from the metallicity of Uranus and Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11425

HORuS transmission spectroscopy and revised planetary parameters of KELT-7b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11548

Laboratory Experiments on the Radiation Astrochemistry of Water Ice Phases
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11614

June 23, 2022 updates

Epistemology and anomaly detection in astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10539-022-09859-w

α-deep Probabilistic Inference (α-DPI): Efficient Uncertainty Quantification from Exoplanet Astrometry to Black Hole Feature Extraction
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6be9

WASP Lightcurves: Red Noise and a Cautionary Tale
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac79b8

A First Look at CRIRES+: Performance Assessment and Exoplanet Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10621

A hot sub-Neptune in the desert and a temperate super-Earth around faint M dwarfs: Color validation of TOI-4479b and TOI-2081b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10643

June 22, 2022 updates

Stability of high-temperature salty ice suggests electrolyte permeability in water-rich exoplanet icy mantles
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30796-5

Salty ice and the dilemma of ocean exoplanet habitability
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30799-2

Active lithoautotrophic and methane-oxidizing microbial community in an anoxic, sub-zero, and hypersaline High Arctic spring
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-022-01233-8

Prevalence of short-lived radioactive isotopes across exoplanetary systems inferred from polluted white dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1709/6612733

Inward and outward migration of massive planets: moving towards a stalling radius
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1700/6612739

The ET mission to search for Earth 2.0s
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675822000674

A Comparison of EXOTIC and PyRaf in Analyzing Exoplanet Transits
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361359744_A_Comparison_of_EXOTIC_and_PyRaf_in_Analyzing_Exoplanet_Transits

Laboratory Demonstration of Real-Time Focal Plane Wavefront Control of Residual Atmospheric Speckles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08986

Transmission spectroscopy of MASCARA-1b with ESPRESSO: Challenges of overlapping orbital and Doppler tracks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09443

Exoplanet atmosphere retrievals in 3D using phase curve data with ARCiS: application to WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09738

Earth through the looking glass: how frequently are we detected by other civilisations through photometric microlensing?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09820

A Temperature Trend for Clouds and Hazes in Exoplanets Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09934

A detailed analysis of the Gl 486 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09990

Theory of Radiation Pressure on a Diffractive Solar Sail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10052

June 20, 2022 Updates

Accurate Modeling of Lyα Profiles and their Impact on Photolysis of Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05147

Phot0, a plausible primeval pigment on Earth and rocky exoplanets
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/cp/d2cp01703b/unauth

Improving Detection of Gravitational-wave Microlensing Using Repeated Signals Induced by Strong Lensing
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6dea

No Detection of Sodium in the Atmosphere of the Warm Neptune HD 106315c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac7957

Dust Accretion onto Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac625e

Towards a Classification Scheme for the Rocky Planets based on Equilibrium Thermodynamic Considerations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1665/6609936?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Could the "Wow" signal have originated from a stochastic repeating beacon?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08374

Transit Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VIII: a Pleiades-age association harboring two transiting planetary systems from Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08383

Inward and outward migration of massive planets: moving towards a stalling radius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08389

A halo of trapped interstellar matter surrounding the solar system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08535

Resonance capture and long-term evolution of planets in binary star systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08806