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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May 20, 2022 updates

Internal structures and magnetic moments of rocky planets – Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42781-21/aa42781-21.html

Extraterrestrial artificial photosynthesis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S254243512200188X

Alien suns reversing in exoplanet skies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11527-8

A general stability-driven approach for the refinement of multi-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09319

A CHEOPS Search for Massive, Long-Period Companions to the Warm Jupiter K2-139 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09355

Pandora: A fast open-source exomoon transit detection algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09410

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. I. Ten TESS Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09728

May 19, 2022 Updates

Detection of CO emission lines in the dayside atmospheres of WASP-33b and WASP-189b with GIANO
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa43503-22/aa43503-22.html

Periodic orbits in the 1:2:3 resonant chain and their impact on the orbital dynamics of the Kepler-51 planetary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42953-21/aa42953-21.html

A Multiplanet System’s Sole Super-puff: Exploring Allowable Physical Parameters for the Cold Super-puff HIP 41378 f
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6353

Engineers Investigating NASA’s Voyager 1 Telemetry Data
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/engineers-investigating-nasas-voyager-1-telemetry-data

Weak evidence for variable occultation depth of 55 Cnc e with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08560

Internet of Spacecraft for Multi-planetary Defense and Prosperity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08567

Space Weather-driven Variations in Lyα Absorption Signatures of Exoplanet Atmospheric Escape: MHD Simulations and the Case of AU Mic b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08900

HD 28109 hosts a trio of transiting Neptunian planets including a near-resonant pair, confirmed by ASTEP from Antarctica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09046

May 18, 2022 updates

The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space Telescope – IV. Capabilities and predicted performance for exoplanet characterization
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42592-21/aa42592-21.html

Origins of Chiral Life in Interstellar Molecular Clouds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac63d0

Development of a rotational shearing interferometer for detection of (habitable) exoplanets
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12170/2604053/Development-of-a-rotational-shearing-interferometer-for-detection-of-habitable/10.1117/12.2604053.short

The Futility of Exoplanet Biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07921

Impact of Economic Constraints on the Projected Timeframe for Human-Crewed Deep Space Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.08061

The Great Planetary Heist: Theft and capture in star-forming regions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07895

May 17, 2022 updates

AbSciCon 2022: From Stars to Cells
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/abscicon-2022-open-public-events/

Nexus for Exoplanet System Science
https://nexss.info/

Network for Life Detection
https://www.nfold.org/

Request for Information: Early Cells to Multicellularity
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/request-for-information-early-cells-to-multicellularity/

Searching for the origin of the Ehrenreich effect in ultra-hot Jupiters – Evidence for strong C/O gradients in the atmosphere of WASP-76 b?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42591-21/aa42591-21.html

HD 83443c: A Highly Eccentric Giant Planet on a 22 yr Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6589

Water UV-shielding in the Terrestrial Planet-forming Zone: Implications from Water Emission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac66ce

Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06899

To Sample or Not To Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalising Flows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07037

Transfer of Rocks between Planetary Systems: Panspermia Revisited
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07799

The Visual Survey Group: A Decade of Hunting Exoplanets and Unusual Stellar Events with Space-Based Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07832

Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: General Circulation Model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07834

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11729

May 16, 2022 updates

Nitriles in Prebiotic Chemistry and Astrobiology
https://research.chalmers.se/publication/529433

The Planetary Vaporization Event Hypothesis: Supercharging Earth’s Geothermal Core, Identifying Side Effects Blast Patterns, and Inferring how to Find Earth-Like Planets or Identifying Super Charged Geothermal Cores and their Byproduct Blast Patterns
https://www.scipress.com/ILCPA.87.1

Can Carbon Fractionation Provide Evidence for Aerial Biospheres in the Atmospheres of Temperate Sub-Neptunes?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06284

Simulations of astrometric planet detection in alpha Centauri by intensity interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06517

The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Its Implications for Earth’s Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06785