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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March 15, 2023 updates

Simulated performance of the molecular mapping for young giant exoplanets with the Medium-Resolution Spectrometer of JWST/MIRI
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45094-22/aa45094-22.html

Scattered polarized radiation of extrasolar circumplanetary rings
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45474-22/aa45474-22.html

Localizing The First Interstellar Meteor With Seismometer Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07357

LRG-BEASTS: Evidence for clouds in the transmission spectrum of HATS-46 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07381

March 14, 2023 updates

The Science of Breaking Spacetime with a Wormhole
https://thecosmical.com/how-can-we-break-spacetime-with-a-wormhole/

Pancosmorio (world limit) theory of the sustainability of human migration and settlement in space
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1081340/full

Planetary geodynamics and age constraints on circumstellar habitable zones around main sequence stars
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/planetary-geodynamics-and-age-constraints-on-circumstellar-habitable-zones-around-main-sequence-stars/FE236FDBEE1A6569FA601D428215987A

A numerical study of fourth- and fifth-order retrograde mean motion resonances in planetary systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/520/3/4696/7022333

TTV Constraints on Additional Planets in the WD 1856+534 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06157

A Catalog of Exoplanets with Equilibrium Temperature less than 600 K
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06214

An unlikely survivor: a low-density hot Neptune orbiting a red giant star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06728

The energetic particle environment of a GJ 436 b-like planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07058

High Forward Thrust Metasurface Beam-Riding Sail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06793

March 13, 2023 Updates

Anatomy of rocky planets formed by rapid pebble accretion I. How icy pebbles determine the core fraction and FeO contents
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa42141-21/aa42141-21.html

Constraining planetary mass-loss rates by simulating Parker wind profiles with Cloudy (Corrigendum)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa43830e-22/aa43830e-22.html

The K2 and TESS Synergy. II. Revisiting 26 Systems in the TESS Primary Mission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acaf03

Magnetic activity variability from Hα line intensive monitoring of two F-type stars with a hot Jupiter, τ Bootis A and υ Andromedae A
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psad010/7076234?redirectedFrom=fulltext

The origin of free-floating planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05522

Assessing the spin-orbit obliquity of low-mass planets in the breaking the chain formation model: A story of misalignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05635

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VIII. Nondetection of sodium in the atmosphere of the aligned planet KELT-10b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05857

March 09, 2023 updates

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): X. Assessing the Impact of Clouds on Atmospheric Retrievals at Mid-Infrared Wavelengths with a Venus-Twin Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04727

Impact of Changing Stellar and Planetary Magnetic Fields on (Exo)planetary Environments and Atmospheric Mass Loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04770

Habitability and sub glacial liquid water on planets of M-dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04474

Free-floating or wide-orbit? Keck adaptive-optics observations reveal no host stars near free-floating planet candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04610

Migration of pairs of giant planets in low-viscosity discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04652