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 01, 2023 updates

How did life begin? One key ingredient is coming into view
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00574-4

Exoplanet Exploration – Planets Beyond Our Solar System
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/

Astrobiology at NASA – Life in the Universe
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/

Removing Traces of Life in Lab Helps NASA Scientists Study Its Origins
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/removing-traces-of-life-in-lab-helps-nasa-scientists-study-its-origins

VPNEP: Detailed characterization of TESS targets around the Northern Ecliptic Pole – I. Survey design, pilot analysis, and initial data release
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45255-22/aa45255-22.html

Hint of an exocomet transit in the CHEOPS light curve of HD 172555 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45104-22/aa45104-22.html

February 28, 2023 updates

Matter/Anti-Matter Propulsion
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/86283

Photon-sail trajectories to exoplanet Proxima b using heteroclinic connections
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:f1784fa7-2c8c-47fb-b2a9-d79d1153aeef

Feminism and gender in thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/78244FB29F11869A7D4A39017A74549F

Improving circumbinary planet detections by fitting their binary’s apsidal precession
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad607/7059214

Direct Imaging Explorations for Companions around Mid-Late M Stars from the Subaru/IRD Strategic Program
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13354

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. VIII. Complete Sample of 2019 Subprime Field Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13544

Magnetic Effects and 3D Structure in Theoretical High-Resolution Transmission Spectra of Ultrahot Jupiters: the Case of WASP-76b https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13969

February 27, 2023 updates

The Emergence of Astrobiology: A Topic-Modeling Perspective
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0122

Effect of macronutrient levels on Chlorella vulgaris cultivation for long duration spaceflights and space settlements
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523000954

Observing M Dwarfs UV and optical flares from a CubeSat and their implications for exoplanets habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12566

Evidence for Hidden Nearby Companions to Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12778

February 24, 2023 updates

Planetary Orbit Eccentricity Trends (POET). I. The Eccentricity–Metallicity Trend for Small Planets Revealed by the LAMOST–Gaia–Kepler Sample
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acb533

The Similar Seven: A Set of Very Alike Exoplanets to Test Correlations between System Parameters and Atmospheric Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb154

The quintuple system 30 Arietis: Comments on orbital stability and habitability
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20230012

NA-SODINN: a deep learning algorithm for exoplanet image detection based on residual noise regimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02854

February 23, 2023 updates

Addressing Spaceflight Biology through the Lens of a Histologist–Embryologist
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/13/2/588

Outreach of an Exoplanet Research and the PLATO Space Mission in the Czech Republic
https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/179290/120438627.pdf

Biosignature Line Ratios of [P II] in Exoplanetary and Nebular Environments
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slad024/7051229

Planetary Orbit Eccentricity Trends (POET). I. The Eccentricity–Metallicity Trend for Small Planets Revealed by the LAMOST–Gaia–Kepler Sample
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acb533

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Element Abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10919

Using helium 10830 Å transits to constrain planetary magnetic fields

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10947

Imaging of exocomets with infrared interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10961

Comparisons of the core and mantle compositions of earth analogs from different terrestrial planet formation scenarios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11020

A precise blue-optical transmission spectrum from the ground: Evidence for haze in the atmosphere of WASP-74b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11495

Sporadic Spin-Orbit Variations in Compact Multi-planet Systems and their Influence on Exoplanet Climate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11561