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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February 22, 2023 updates

The Habitability of Venus
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-023-00960-4

H2S and SO2 detectability in hot Jupiters – Sulphur species as indicators of metallicity and C/O ratio
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa44647-22/aa44647-22.html

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – Guaranteed time observations Data Release 1 (2016-2020)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa44879-22/aa44879-22.html

TOI-4562b: A Highly Eccentric Temperate Jupiter Analog Orbiting a Young Field Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acb5a2

Patchy Forsterite Clouds in the Atmospheres of Two Highly Variable Exoplanet Analogs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acab58

Penetrative Superplumes in the Mantle of Large Super-Earth Planets: A Possible Mechanism for Active Tectonics in the Massive Super-Earths
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GC010678

Enhanced ion escape rate during IMF rotation under weak intrinsic magnetic field conditions on a Mars-like planet
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JA030510

Imaging exoplanets with coronagraphic instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10833

A 2:1 Mean-Motion Resonance Super-Jovian pair revealed by TESS, FEROS, and HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10838

Doppler Constraints on Planetary Companions to Nearby Sun-like Stars: An Archival Radial Velocity Survey of Southern Targets for Proposed NASA Direct Imaging Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10310

TOI-1055 b: a neptunian planet characterised with HARPS, TESS, and CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10664

AOTF based spectro-polarimeter for observing Earth as an Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10712

Coplanar circumbinary planets can be unstable to large tilt
oscillations in the presence of an inner polar planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10752

February 21, 2023 updates

TOI-5205b: A Short-period Jovian Planet Transiting a Mid-M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acabce

Peering into the Young Planetary System AB Pic. Atmosphere, Orbit, Obliquity & Second Planetary Candidate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01474

Oxygenic photosynthetic responses of cyanobacteria exposed under an M-dwarf starlight simulator: Implications for exoplanet’s habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09396

A Mini-Chemical Scheme with Net Reactions for 3D GCMs II. 3D thermochemical modelling of WASP-39b and HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09525

The Effect of Metallicity on the Non-Equilibrium Abundance of Hydrogen Dominated Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09576

Mid-infrared spectroscopy of planetary analogs: A database for planetary remote sensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09987

TOI-3235 b: a transiting giant planet around an M4 dwarf star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10008

February 20, 2023 Updates

Estimating non-common path aberrations with an adaptive coronagraph
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa44602-22/aa44602-22.html

Conflicting Models for the Origin of Life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119555568

Hiding Dust around epsilon Eridani
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acac83

Revising Properties of Planet-Host Binary Systems. III. There is No Observed Radius Gap For Kepler Planets in Binary Star Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08532

High-fidelity reaction kinetic modeling of hot-Jupiter atmospheres incorporating thermal and UV photochemistry enhanced by metastable CO(a3Pi)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08596

CRIRES+ detection of CO emissions lines and temperature inversions on the dayside of WASP-18b and WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08736

The Hubble PanCET program: The near-ultraviolet transmission spectrum of WASP-79b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08962

February 16, 2023 updates

The cold-trapping efficiency of water on airless planetary bodies
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2432180/v1

Are we alone in the universe?
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ucla-seti-group/are-we-alone-in-the-universe

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – VII. Practical implementation of a five-telescope kernel-nulling beam combiner with a discussion on instrumental uncertainties and redundancy benefits
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa43863-22/aa43863-22.html

Near-term strategies to rendezvous with an interstellar object https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523000759

Star-exoplanet interactions: A growing interdisciplinary field in heliophysics
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1064076/full

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua Realistically with a Jupiter Encounter and Imminent Propulsion Options
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07659

TOI-3984 A b and TOI-5293 A b: two temperate gas giants transiting mid-M dwarfs in wide binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07714