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 21, 2023 updates

Astronauts that hibernate on long spaceflights is not just for sci-fi. We could test it in 10 years.
https://www.space.com/astronaut-hibernation-trials-possible-in-decade

Activity of TRAPPIST-1 Analogs
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773722110068

A full transit of v2 Lupi d and the search for an exomoon in its Hill sphere with CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa44790-22/aa44790-22.html

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Nearby Stars’ Close Encounters with the Brightest Earth Transmissions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acc1a1

TOI-1695 b: A Water World Orbiting an Early-M Dwarf in the Planet Radius Valley
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbdfd

Direct Imaging Explorations for Companions around Mid–Late M Stars from the Subaru/IRD Strategic Program
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbf37

Decomposition of Benzene during Impacts in N2-dominated Atmospheres https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acbd48

Bio-techno-signature Monitoring and Communication Guideposts for Extraterrestrial Life
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acc4b8

March 20, 2023 Updates

Advances in spacecraft micro-vibration suppression methods
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376042123000143

A Catalog of Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Codes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acc46a

Direct Imaging Explorations for Companions around Mid–Late M Stars from the Subaru/IRD Strategic Program
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbf37

Predicting the Yield of Small Transiting Exoplanets around Mid-M and Ultra-Cool Dwarfs in the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09959

A Biotic Habitable Zone: Impacts of Adaptation in Biotic Temperature Regulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10052

March 17, 2023 updates

Sub-Jovian desert of exoplanets at its boundaries – Parameter dependence along the main sequence
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa44846-22/aa44846-22.html

Observability of silicates in volatile atmospheres of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes – Exploring the edge of the evaporation desert
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45521-22/aa45521-22.html

Removal of Hot Saturns in Mass–Radius Plane by Runaway Mass Loss https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acbd35

A Gap-sharing Planet Pair Shaping the Crescent in HD 163296: A Disk Sculpted by a Resonant Chain
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acbea8

A persistent influence of supernovae on biodiversity over the Phanerozoic
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.9898

An Origin of Narrow Extended Structure in the Interstellar Medium: An Interstellar Contrail Created by a Fast-moving Massive Object
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb7ea

Using Machine Learning to determine the most important features in exoplanet verification
https://www.jsr.org/hs/index.php/path/article/view/2821

OGLE-2016-BLG-1195 AO: Lens, Companion to Lens or Source, or None of the Above?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08876

Solar center-to-limb variation in Rossiter-McLaughlin and exoplanet transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09169

ExoplANNET: A deep learning algorithm to detect and identify planetary signals in radial velocity data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09335

Detection of a high-velocity sodium feature on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09376

On the origin of the non-detection of metastable HeI in the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-80b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09501

March 16, 2023 updates

A super-Earth and a mini-Neptune near the 2:1 MMR straddling the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf TOI-2096
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08174

Terrestrial and Neptune mass free-floating planet candidates from the MOA-II 9-year Galactic Bulge survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08279

Free-Floating planet Mass Function from MOA-II 9-year survey towards the Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08280

A search for exoplanets around north circumpolar stars. VII. Detection of planetary companion orbiting the largest host star HD 18438
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08357

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