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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October 19, 2022 updates

A Physicochemical Consideration of Prebiotic Microenvironments for Self-Assembly and Prebiotic Chemistry
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/10/1595/htm

Investigations on the Role of Iron (III) and Silica-Iron (III) for DNA Protection Against Highly Intense UV Radiation: Tracking the Connection of Prebiotic Chemistry to Biology
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0004

Overview of Activities: ARES-III and LEARN Analog Missions in the LunAres Hab
https://spj.sciencemag.org/journals/space/2022/9763959/

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – Stable radial-velocity variations at the rotation period of AD Leonis: A test case study of current limitations to treating stellar activity
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa43773-22/aa43773-22.html

Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Rocky Planet L 98–59 b: No Evidence for a Cloud-free Primordial Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8fe9

Revisiting the Iconic Spitzer Phase Curve of 55 Cancri e: Hotter Dayside, Cooler Nightside, and Smaller Phase Offset
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8f22

Stability analysis of planetary systems via second-order Rényi entropy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09417

Planetary system around LTT 1445A unveiled by ESPRESSO: Multiple planets in a triple M-dwarf system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09713

A Radiative-Convective Model for Terrestrial Planets with Self-Consistent Patchy Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10004

A transmission spectrum of the sub-Earth planet L98-59~b in 1.1-1.7 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10008

October 18, 2022 Updates

Fast Transit Interplanetary Exploration with Extreme Solar Sail Missions
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2022-4339

Constraints on Evolutionary Timescales for M Dwarf Planets from Dynamical Stability Arguments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08018

A sub-Neptune transiting the young field star HD 18599 at 40 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08179

Occurrence rate of hot Jupiters around early-type M dwarfs based on TESS data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08313

Atmospheric heat redistribution effect on Emission spectra of Hot-Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08755

Characterization of the HD 108236 system with CHEOPS and TESS. Confirmation of a fifth transiting planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08912

TOI-969: a late-K dwarf with a hot mini-Neptune in the desert and an eccentric cold Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08996

Estimating the depth of gaps opened by planets in eccentric orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09008

TOI-1136 is a Young, Coplanar, Aligned Planetary System in a Pristine Resonant Chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.09283

October 17, 2022 updates

The Alien in Your Backyard: Using Exoplanetary Science to Explore the Ecosystems of Earth
https://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_22.04.02_u

Mission Concept for the Exploration of Interstellar Bodies
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2022-4340

Interstellar Probe: 15 Years to The Interstellar Medium with An Enhanced NASA Space Launch System Launcher
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2022-4371

Residual neural networks for the prediction of planetary collision outcomes
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2933/6761407

Release of TESS Objects of Interest from TESS-SPOC Sectors 48 to 50 Full Frame Images
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac983a

Development of the HeliosX mission analysis code for advanced ICF space propulsion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576522005598

The McDonald Accelerating Stars Survey (MASS): Architecture of the Ancient Five-Planet Host System Kepler-444
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07252

TOI-179: a young system with a transiting compact Neptune-mass planet and a low-mass companion in outer orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07933

October 14, 2022 updates

The Directly Imaged Exoplanet Host Star 51 Eridani is a Gamma Doradus Pulsator
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9229

Connecting Solar and Stellar Flares/CMEs: Expanding Heliophysics to Encompass Exoplanetary Space Weather
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06476

TOI-561 b: A Low Density Ultra-Short Period “Rocky” Planet around a Metal-Poor Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06665

Solid grains ejected from terrestrial exoplanets as a probe of the abundance of life in the Milky Way
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07084

October 13, 2022 updates

NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter in safe mode after computer glitch
https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-exoplanet-mission-in-safe-mode

Detection of barium in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76b and WASP-121b – Together with new detections of Co and Sr+ on WASP-121b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44489-22/aa44489-22.html

A dense mini-Neptune orbiting the bright young star HD 18599
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2845/6760009

A Note on the “Various Atmospheres over Water Oceans on Terrestrial Planets with a One-Dimensional Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05963

Spectral cube extraction for the VLT/SPHERE IFS: Open-source pipeline with full forward modeling and improved sensitivity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06390