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 27, 2023 updates

The McDonald Accelerating Stars Survey: Architecture of the Ancient Five-planet Host System Kepler-444
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca88c

Comparative study of nearly-grazing and fully-grazing exoplanet system parameters derived with TESS and ground-based instruments
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20220075

The First Circumbinary Planet Discovered with Radial Velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10794

The unusual M-dwarf Warm Jupiter TOI-1899~b: Refinement of orbital and planetary parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10837

The transmission spectrum of the potentially rocky planet L 98-59 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10866

Multibeam Blind Search of Targeted SETI Observations toward 33 Exoplanet Systems with FAST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10890

From exo-Earths to exo-Venuses — Flux and Polarization Signatures of Reflected Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11314

January 26, 2023 updates

EM Propulsive Force Mode l using Rabi Successive Filtering for Warp Speed Drive
https://journal.eeaat.or.th/home/images/v8n2/1_Final_EM-Propulsive-Force-Mode-l.pdf

Technosignatures: Frameworks for Their Assessment
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acaca0

Multi-epoch detections of the extended atmosphere and transmission spectra of KELT-9b with a 1.5 m telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10406

The Dynamics of Co-orbital Giant Exomoons — Applications for the Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b Satellite Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10730

January 24, 2023 updates

Simultaneous gas accretion onto a pair of giant planets: Impact on their final mass and on the protoplanetary disk structure
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa44988-22/aa44988-22.html

ESA-Ariel Data Challenge NeurIPS 2022: Introduction to exo-atmospheric studies and presentation of the Atmospheric Big Challenge (ABC) Database
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzad001/6998590

Mass Derivation of planets K2-21b and K2-21c from Transit Timing Variations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad238/6998586

Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Planets L 98–59 c and d: No Evidence for a Clear Hydrogen Dominated Primary Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/acaceb

Unraveling the evolution of hot Jupiter systems under the effect of tidal and magnetic interactions and mass loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09026

Climate and atmospheric models of rocky planets: habitability and observational properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09156

Synthetic Population of Interstellar Objects in the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09375

Dynamically Stable Radiation Pressure Propulsion of Flexible Lightsails for Interstellar Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08894

Black holes as tools for quantum computing by advanced extraterrestrial civilizations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.09575

January 23, 2023 updates

Autonomous navigation in deep space using optical measurements of unresolved planets and stars
https://dspace.rpi.edu/handle/20.500.13015/6342

The Dynamics of Interstellar Laser Sails
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-0552

Examining the orbital decay targets KELT-9 b, KELT-16 b, and WASP-4b, and the transit-timing variations of HD 97658 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/01/aa44529-22/aa44529-22.html

The study on transiting systems HAT-P-13, HAT-P-16 and WASP-32 through combining ground-based and TESS photometry
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad204/6994539

The Orbital Architecture of Qatar-6: A Fully Aligned Three-body System? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca88e

Study of the non-thermal atmospheric loss for exoplanet π Men c
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-international-astronomical-union/article/abs/study-of-the-nonthermal-atmospheric-loss-for-exoplanet-men-c/271869324B25B7ECEDB7A640069B5DFF

Effect of multiple scattering on the Transmission spectra and the Polarization phase curves for Earth-like Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08487

WASP-39b: exo-Saturn with patchy cloud composition, moderate metallicity, and underdepleted S/O
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08492

Oxygen depletion in giant planets with different formation histories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08616