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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June 10, 2022 updates

Comet Interceptor approved for construction
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Comet_Interceptor_approved_for_construction

Searching the SETI Ellipsoid with Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04092

The morphology of CSCha circumbinary disk suggesting the existence of a Saturn-mass planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04427

A numerical study of the 1/2, 2/1 and 1/1 retrograde mean motion resonances in planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04526

On retrograde orbits, resonances and stability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04628

Hiding Planets Near and Far: The Parameter Space of Hidden Companions for Known Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07529

June 9, 2022 updates

Urability: A Property of Planetary Bodies That Can Support an Origin of Life
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0173

Adaptive Optics Imaging Breaks the Central Caustic Cusp Approach Degeneracy in High Magnification Microlensing Events
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03502

Atmospheric Characterization of Hot Jupiter CoRoT-1 b Using the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03517

Limits on the Auroral Generation of H+3 in Brown Dwarf and Extrasolar Giant Planet Atmospheres with Keck/NIRSPEC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03595

A new third planet and the dynamical architecture of the HD33142 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03899

Pterodactyls: A Tool to Uniformly Search and Vet for Young Transiting Planets In TESS Primary Mission Photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03989

June 8, 2022 updates

The Bioburden and Ionic Composition of Hypersaline Lake Ices: Novel Habitats on Earth and Their Astrobiological Implications
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0078

Jupiter’s inhomogeneous envelope
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa43207-22/aa43207-22.html

Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a ‘hot Saturn’ orbiting a metal-rich star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1530/660384

Toward RNA Life on Early Earth: From Atmospheric HCN to Biomolecule Production in Warm Little Ponds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac47a1

The growth and migration of massive planets under the influence of external photoevaporation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02818

Determining Which Binary Component Hosts the TESS Transiting Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02825

June 7, 2022 updates

Bacterial Utilisation of Aliphatic Organics: Is the Dwarf Planet Ceres Habitable?
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/6/821/htm

Inference of a “Hot Ice” Layer in Nitrogen-Rich Planets: Demixing the Phase Diagram and Phase Composition for Variable Concentration Helium–Nitrogen Mixtures Based on Isothermal Compression
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpca.2c02132

The Transmission Spectrum of WASP-17 b From the Optical to the Near-infrared Wavelengths: Combining STIS, WFC3, and IRAC Data Sets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6c01

Technosignatures for Detecting Intelligent Life in Our Universe: A Research Companion
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119640738

Dynamical Instability in Multi-Orbiter Systems with Gas Friction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01755

A Unified Spectroscopic and Photometric Model to Infer Surface Inhomogeneity: Application to Luhman 16B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01770

Transit least-squares survey IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02071

Can Gaia find planets around white dwarfs?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.02505

June 6, 2022 Updates

Evolution of Realistic Organic Mixtures for the Origins of Life through
Wet–Dry Cycling
https://www.mdpi.com/2413-4155/4/2/22/htm

ADM mass in warp drive spacetimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15950

The NASA GSFC TESS Full Frame Image Light Curve Data Set
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac74c4

Establishing Dust Rings and Forming Planets Within Them
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01219

Spectroscopy of TOI-1259B — an unpolluted white dwarf companion to an inflated warm Saturn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.01259