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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July 20, 2022 updates

Solar System Science with the Orbiting Astronomical Satellite Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS) Observatory
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00911-5

Limits on the Auroral Generation of H3+ in Brown Dwarf and Extrasolar Giant Planet Atmospheres with the Keck Near Infrared Echelle Spectrograph
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7718

The Detectability of Rocky Planet Surface and Atmosphere Composition with JWST: The Case of LHS 3844b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08889

Salty ice and the dilemma of ocean exoplanet habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09351

July 19, 2022 updates

Experimental characterization of a silicon nitride photonic crystal light sail
https://opg.optica.org/ome/fulltext.cfm?uri=ome-12-8-3032&id=479128

A Search for Monochromatic Light Toward the Galactic Centre
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1933/6643331

‘Oumuamua and meta-empirical confirmation
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10701-022-00587-5

NASA Seeks Public’s Designs to Throw Shade in Space
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-seeks-public-s-designs-to-throw-shade-in-space

Meta-modelling the climate of dry tide-locked rocky planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa43099-22/aa43099-22.html

Galactic Chemical Evolution of Exoplanet Hosting Stars: Are High-mass Planetary Systems Young?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac756a

Interstellar Probe: Humanity’s exploration of the Galaxy Begins
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522003484

On the Effects of Planetary Oblateness on Exoplanet Studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07670

Planetary systems with forces other than gravitational forces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08084

Directional aspects of vegetation linear and circular polarization biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08125

The bright side of the light curve: a general photometric model of non-transiting exorings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08636

July 18, 2022 Updates

Warp Drive Aerodynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06458

Detection Feasibility of H2 in Ultra-hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac7f45

Inferring Exoplanet Disequilibria with Multivariate Information in Atmospheric Reaction Networks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6594

Aiolos- A multi-purpose 1-D hydrodynamics code for planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07144

An ALMA 1.3 millimeter Search for Debris Disks around Solar-type Stars in the Pleiades
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07171

Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets II
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07295

Unbiasing the density of TTV-characterised sub-Neptunes: Update of the mass-radius relationship of 34 Kepler planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07456

Detectability of satellites around directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07569

July 15, 2022 updates

Atmospheric Gravitational Tides of Earth-like Planets Orbiting Low-mass Stars
https://space.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=abbef0b5fff9a0ffa23d50307&id=2d16242747&e=a065996136

The Dynamical Viability of an Extended Jupiter Ring System
https://space.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=abbef0b5fff9a0ffa23d50307&id=1e4e0e684e&e=a065996136

A Tendency Toward Alignment in Single-Star Warm Jupiter Systems
https://space.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=abbef0b5fff9a0ffa23d50307&id=90ea57c87c&e=a065996136

Report on Community Cadence Observing to Maximize the Scientific Output of the Keck Planet Finder
https://space.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=abbef0b5fff9a0ffa23d50307&id=33cda7cc67&e=a065996136

Less effective hydrodynamic escape of H2-H2O atmospheres on terrestrial planets orbiting pre-main sequence M dwarfs
https://space.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=abbef0b5fff9a0ffa23d50307&id=c8189a777e&e=a065996136

July 15, 2022 updates

Atmospheric Gravitational Tides of Earth-like Planets Orbiting Low-mass Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac76cd

The Dynamical Viability of an Extended Jupiter Ring System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06434

A Tendency Toward Alignment in Single-Star Warm Jupiter Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06511

Report on Community Cadence Observing to Maximize the Scientific Output of the Keck Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06523

Less effective hydrodynamic escape of H2-H2O atmospheres on terrestrial planets orbiting pre-main sequence M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06570

Atmospheric gravitational tides of Earth-like planets orbiting low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06974