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 3, 2022 updates

Nucleation and growth of iron pebbles explains the formation of iron-rich planets akin to Mercury
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa43480-22/aa43480-22.html

Orbital stability analysis of hypothetical Earth-mass and Luna-mass moons in the Sagarmatha (HD 100777) star system
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psac037/6599069

Atmosphere Loss by Aerial Bursts
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1509/6598832

Study on the characteristics of exoplanets: Review
https://www.eduzonejournal.com/index.php/eiprmj/article/view/29

Improved Orbital Constraints and Hα Photometric Monitoring of the Directly Imaged Protoplanet Analog HD 142527 B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00687

Energetics govern ocean circulation on icy ocean worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00732

Infrared Spectroscopy of free-floating planet candidates in Upper Scorpius and Ophiuchus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00916

Proximity of exoplanets to first-order mean-motion resonances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00943

June 2, 2022 updates

Fundamental Ideas in Cosmology
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-3775-5

Chemical, Thermal, and Radiation Resistance of an Iron Porphyrin: A Model Study of Biosignature Stability
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0144

Nodal Precession and Tidal Evolution of Two Hot Jupiters: WASP-33 b and KELT-9 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6b9a

Detection of Cosmic Fullerenes in the Almahata Sitta Meteorite: Are They an Interstellar Heritage?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac69dd

Solar-to-supersolar sodium and oxygen absolute abundances for a “hot Saturn” orbiting a metal-rich star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00017

The Role of Atmospheric Exchange in False-Positive Biosignature Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00028

Searching for technosignatures in exoplanetary systems with current and future missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00030

Redundant apodization for direct imaging of exoplanets 2: Application to island effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00295

In-depth direct imaging and spectroscopic characterization of the young Solar System analog HD 95086
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00425

June 1, 2022 updates

Hybrid Observatory for Earth-like Exoplanets (HOEE)
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2022/Hybrid_Observatory_for_Earth_like_Exoplanets/

Diffractive Solar Sailing
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2022/diffractive_solar_sailing/

Galactic chemical evolution of exoplanet host stars: Are high-mass planetary systems young?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15793

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG. XXXV. Fundamental properties of transiting exoplanet host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15796

May 31, 2022 updates

Extraterrestrial life
https://wiki.edunitas.com/IT/114-10/aliens_8383_eduNitas.html

Search for exoplanets around northern circumpolar stars – V. Three likely planetary companions to the giant stars HD 19615, HD 150010, and HD 174205
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa42379-21/aa42379-21.html

The need for a public forecast of stellar activity to optimise exoplanet radial velocity detections & transmission spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1446/6595315

Application and challenges of 3D food printing technology in manned spaceflight: A review
https://ifst.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijfs.15879

Wind-Pellet Shear Sailing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14117

Water observed in the atmosphere of τ Bootis Ab with CARMENES/CAHA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14975

May 30, 2022 Updates

The Fellowship of the Dyson Ring: ACT&Friends’ Results and Methods for GTOC 11
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10124

Intermediate Points for Missions to Interstellar Objects Using Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10220

Charged traversable wormholes supported by Casimir energy with and without GUP corrections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321322001997

Vetting the Lobster Diagram: Searching for Unseen Companions in Wide Binaries using NASA Space Exoplanet Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13715

Properties of the radius valley around low mass stars: Predictions from the core-powered mass-loss mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14020