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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November 30, 2022 updates

NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-an-exoplanet-atmosphere-as-never-seen-before

Episodic Plate Tectonics on Europa: Evidence for Widespread Patches of Mobile-Lid Behavior in the Antijovian Hemisphere
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007492

A strong H− opacity signal in the near-infrared emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44533-22/aa44533-22.html

Star–planet interaction – Wave structures and wing-wing interaction https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43346-22/aa43346-22.html

Transmission spectroscopy of WASP-7 b with UVES – Detection of Na i D2 and tentative D1 line absorption
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43955-22/aa43955-22.html

Erratum: “Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. II. Discovery of a Failed Hot Jupiter on a 2.7 yr, Highly Eccentric Orbit”
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9e51

Tentative Evidence for Transit-timing Variations of WASP-161b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9e50

An efficient Monte Carlo model for the slowing down of photoelectrons. Application to H-$\alpha$ in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14128

Revisiting the space weather environment of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15697

Exciting the TTV Phases of Resonant Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15701

Making hot Jupiters in stellar clusters: the importance of binary exchange
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16015

Observations of planetary winds and outflows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16243

November 29, 2022 updates

Artificial Gravity And Its Implications
https://ijaem.net/issue_dcp/Artificial%20Gravity%20And%20Its%20Implications.pdf

Antimatter Propulsion and its Application for Interstellar Travel: A Review
https://www.ijraset.com/best-journal/antimatter-propulsion-and-its-application-in-interstellar-travel-a-review

Increasing the stability margins using multi-pattern metasails and multi-modal laser beams
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24681-w

Human Enhancement and Reproductive Ethics on Generation Ships
https://philarchive.org/archive/UMBHEA

Emplacement of the Franklin large igneous province and initiation of the Sturtian Snowball Earth
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adc9430

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) – VII. Detection of sodium on the long-transiting inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43998-22/aa43998-22.html

Phase curve and geometric albedo of WASP-43b measured with CHEOPS, TESS, and HST WFC3/UVIS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43974-22/aa43974-22.html

Testing Velocity Kinks as a Planet Detection Method: Do Velocity Kinks in Surface Gas Emission Trace Planetary Spiral Wakes in the Midplane Continuum?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aca074

From Solar System to Exoplanets: What can we learn from Planetary Spectroscopy?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ac97d1

Exoplanet Detection by Machine Learning with Data Augmentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15577

Utility of PCA and Other Data Transformation Techniques in Exoplanet Research
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14683

The Effects of Under and Over Sampling in Exoplanet Transit
Identification with Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio Data
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-21686-2_8

Revisiting the atmosphere of the exoplanet 51 Eridani b with VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14330

Concept of an achromatic stellar coronagraph and its application for detecting extrasolar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14624

Stellar space weather effects on potentially habitable planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15396

Hubble Space Telescope transmission spectroscopy for the temperate sub-Neptune TOI-270d: a possible hydrogen-rich atmosphere containing water vapour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15576

Dynamic Soaring as a Means to Exceed the Solar Wind Speed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14643

November 28, 2022 Updates

Chemical evolution in ices on drifting, planet-forming pebbles
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43982-22/aa43982-22.html

JWST/MIRI coronagraphic performances as measured on-sky
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44578-22/aa44578-22.html

Radial velocity survey for planets around young stars (RVSPY)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44747-22/aa44747-22.html

Simulations of Triple Microlensing Events I: Detectability of a scaled Sun-Jupiter-Saturn System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13393

Binary microlensing with plasma environment — Star and planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13442

Water and an escaping helium tail detected in the hazy and methane-depleted atmosphere of HAT-P-18b from JWST NIRISS/SOSS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13761

An efficient Monte Carlo model for the slowing down of photoelectrons. Application to H- in exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522004651

A Circumplanetary Dust Ring May Explain the Extreme Spectral Slope of the 10 Myr Young Exoplanet K2-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9f3f

Flutter Mechanism Analysis for Circular Solar Sail
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.J061994

November 25, 2022 Updates

Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sovereign-mars-jacob-haqq-misra/1141623240

Can the Theory of Everything be the Great Filter?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365374857_Can_the_Theory_of_Everything_be_the_Great_Filter

Long-Term Exoplanet Habitability: How Chance Favors Prokaryotes
https://d197for5662m48.cloudfront.net/documents/publicationstatus/96157/preprint_pdf/078d89daaf7a417a3f0ea33284649d3e.pdf

Validation of strategies for coupling exoplanet PSFs into single-mode fibres for high-dispersion coronagraphy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43408-22/aa43408-22.html

The fundamentals of Lyman-α exoplanet transits
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3414/6845744?redirectedFrom=fulltext