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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November 02, 2022 updates

Exoplanet Innovators Interview: Sara Seager Interviews Jim Kasting https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0095

Extending optical flare models to the UV: results from comparing of TESS and GALEX flare observations for M Dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3135/6786284

Orbital Flips Caused by the Eccentric Von Zeipel–Lidov–Kozai Effect in Nonrestricted Hierarchical Planetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac978c

Clouds form on the hot Saturn JWST ERO target WASP-96b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00633

November 01, 2022 updates

The GAPS programme at TNG – XL. A puffy and warm Neptune-sized planet and an outer Neptune-mass candidate orbiting the solar-type star TOI-1422
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44079-22/aa44079-22.html

Gaia–TESS synergy: improving the identification of transit candidates https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44207-22/aa44207-22.html

A Transmission Spectrum of the Sub-Earth Planet L98-59 b in 1.1–1.7 μm https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9472

TESS Giants Transiting Giants III: An eccentric warm Jupiter supports a period-eccentricity relation for giant planets transiting evolved stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17062

Unstructured Grid Dynamical Modeling of Planetary Atmospheres using planetMPAS: The Influence of the Rigid Lid, Computational Efficiency, and Examples of Martian and Jovian Application
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17430

Winds and magnetospheres of stars and planets: similarities and differences
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17472

TESS Timings of 31 Hot Jupiters with Ephemeris Uncertainties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06678

October 31, 2022 Updates

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Fusion Propulsion: Field of the Future
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9928425

Establishing A Landmark in Space — Spacetime Zero
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/364475841_Establishing_A_Landmark_in_Space_-_Spacetime_Zero

A quarter century of spectroscopic monitoring of the nearby M dwarf Gl 514
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa43522-22/aa43522-22.html

Detecting Magnetospheric Radio Emission from Giant Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac92f5

Hot Jupiter engulfment by a red giant in 3D hydrodynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15848

Measuring the orbit shrinkage rate of hot Jupiters due to tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.16061

October 28, 2022 updates

The HD 93963 A transiting system: A 1.04 d super-Earth and a 3.65 d sub-Neptune discovered by TESS and CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43093-22/aa43093-22.html

Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy – III. Modeling 2D effects in retrievals with TauREx
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43492-22/aa43492-22.html

Interstellar Object Accessibility and Mission Design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14980

The TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.15473

October 27, 2022 updates

Revisiting Radial Velocity Measurements of the K2-18 System with the Line-by-Line Framework
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac3024/6767604

A new method for finding nearby white dwarfs exoplanets and detecting biosignatures
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/517/2/2622/6747139

Search for an Alien Message to a Nearby Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9610

Non-detection of He I in the Atmosphere of GJ 1214b with Keck/NIRSPEC, at a Time of Minimal Telluric Contamination
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac88c9

Community Report from the Biosignatures Standards of Evidence Workshop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14293

A search for planetary transits on a set of 1.4 million multi-sector DIAmante lightcurves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14559

TOI-1075 b: A Dense, Massive, Ultra-Short Period Hot Super-Earth Straddling the Radius Gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14901