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 13, 2022 updates

Astrospheres of Planet-Hosting Cool Stars and Beyond ⋅ When Modeling Meets Observations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00894-3

Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0029

Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05696

Another Shipment of Six Short-Period Giant Planets from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05709

An Integrative Analysis of the Rich Planetary System of the Nearby Star e Eridani: Ideal Targets For Exoplanet Imaging and Biosignature Searches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06250

May 12, 2022 updates

Split differential transit photometry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-022-04075-0

A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA–peptide world
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04676-3

A possible path towards encoded protein synthesis on ancient Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01256-3

RRx-001 and the “Right Stuff”: Protection and Treatment in Outer Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552422000293

Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966842X22000920

Exoplanet detection with Genesis
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2251171722500118

CHES: a space-borne astrometric mission for the detection of habitable planets of the nearby solar-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05645

Ocean signatures in the total flux and polarization spectra of Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05669

May 11, 2022 updates

ssessing the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite’s Yield of Rocky Planets Around Nearby M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac64a0

A New Analysis of Eight Spitzer Phase Curves and Hot Jupiter Population Trends: Qatar-1b, Qatar-2b, WASP-52b, WASP-34b, and WASP-140b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6261

Project Lyra: Another Possible Trajectory to 1I/’Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04693

Polarimetric investigation of selected cloud compositions in exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04815

A dearth of close-in planets around rapidly rotating stars or a dearth of data?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04893

The Ariel Target List: The Impact of TESS and the Potential for Characterising Multiple Planets Within a System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05073

May 10, 2022 updates

China is on the hunt for ‘Earth 2.0’ with proposed space telescope
https://www.space.com/china-earth-like-exoplanet-telescope

Traversable wormholes with like-Casimir complexity supported with arbitrarily small amount of exotic matter
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10389-8

Exploring Ocean Circulation on Icy Moons Heated From Below
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE007025

A scaled-up planetary system around a supernova progenitor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02279

Results from The COPAINS Pilot Survey: Four new brown dwarfs and a high companion detection rate for accelerating stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1250/6583003

Earliest photic zone niches probed by ancestral microbial rhodopsins
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msac100/6582242

Scaling K2. V. Statistical Validation of 60 New Exoplanets From K2 Campaigns 2–18
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5c4c

Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space? Potential, Risks, and Norms for Using Lasers in Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964622000157

SETI From the Perspective of Intercivilizational Politics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964622000169

Analysis of circular gratings as image plane coronagraph filters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030401822003017

Interstellar planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04277

Five thousand exoplanets at the NASA Exoplanet Archive
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01661-8

Bayesian Characterisation of Circumbinary Exoplanets with LISA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03461

Giant Planets from the Inside-Out
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04100

May 9, 2022 Updates

Brave new worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922008119

Activity and Rotation of Nearby Field M Dwarfs in the TESS Southern Continuous Viewing Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6110

Deep two-phase, hemispherical magma oceans on lava planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02864

Moderately High Obliquity Promotes Biospheric Oxygenation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02874

Searching for broadband pulsed beacons from 1883 stars using neural networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02964

Classifying Kepler light curves for 12,000 A and F stars using supervised feature-based machine learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03020