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 14, 2022 updates

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – Two Saturn-mass planets orbiting active stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42915-21/aa42915-21.html

TOI-3714 b and TOI-3629 b: Two Gas Giants Transiting M Dwarfs Confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and NEID
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7804

Dynamical Fates of S-Type Planetary Systems in Embedded Cluster Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05759

Effects of Varying Land Coverage, Rotation Period, and Water Vapor on Equatorial Climates that Bridge the Gap between Earth-like and Titan-like
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05815

VLT, GROND and Danish Telescope observations of transits in the TRAPPIST-1 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05874

How drifting and evaporating pebbles shape giant planets III: The formation of WASP-77A b and τ Boötis b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.06077

July 13, 2022 updates

NASA’s Webb Reveals Steamy Atmosphere of Distant Planet in Detail
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-steamy-atmosphere-of-distant-planet-in-detail

Mineral snowflakes on exoplanets and brown dwarfs – Coagulation and fragmentation of cloud particles with HyLandS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42651-21/aa42651-21.html

Low-order wavefront control using a Zernike sensor through Lyot coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging – Blind stabilization of an image dark hole
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa43145-22/aa43145-22.html

ISPY – NaCo Imaging Survey for Planets around Young stars – CenteR: The impact of centering and frame selection
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa40024-20/aa40024-20.html

A search for transit timing variations in the HATS-18 planetary system
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1931/6640422

Quadrupole and octupole order resonances in non-restricted hierarchical planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05362

July 12, 2022 updates

Bioinformation and Neutrino Communication
https://www.bioinformation.net/018/97320630018496.pdf

Construction of a traversable wormhole from a suitable embedding function
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10571-y

Long-term tidal evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 system
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1907/6639872

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

An Insight into the Mechanisms of Homeostasis in Extremophiles
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0944501322001550

Predictions for Observable Atmospheres of Trappist-1 Planets from a Fully Coupled Atmosphere-Interior Evolution Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04164

Convective inhibition with an atmosphere, I: super-critical cores on sub-Neptune/super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04708

July 11, 2022 Updates

Ice Shell Structure and Composition of Ocean Worlds: Insights from Accreted Ice on Earth
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0044

The morphology of the HD 163296 jet as a window on its planetary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42862-21/aa42862-21.html

Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest III
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20224017

Numerical experiments on thermal convection of highly compressible fluids with variable viscosity and thermal conductivity in two-dimensional cylindrical geometry: Implications for mantle convection of super-Earths
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gji/ggac259/6638987?searchresult=1

Delivery of gas onto the circumplanetary disk of giant planets: Planetary-mass dependence of the source region of accreting gas and mass accretion rate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03664

Semi-supervised standardized detection of extrasolar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03740

Flares and rotation of M dwarfs with habitable zones accessible to TESS planet detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03794

Two long-period transiting exoplanets on eccentric orbits: NGTS-20 b (TOI-5152 b) and TOI-5153 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03911

July 8, 2022 updates

Molecular Precursors of the RNA-World in Space: New Nitriles in the G+0.693−0.027 Molecular Cloud
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.876870/full

Self-replicating probes are imminent – implications for SETI
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/selfreplicating-probes-are-imminent-implications-for-seti/2CB214D26020D497D48AE489756BEE77

Curbing the fruitfulness of self-replicating machines
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/curbing-the-fruitfulness-of-selfreplicating-machines/2B67DD2951C7E20C4103DD40D87D6641

A mission architecture to reach and operate at the focal region of the solar gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03005

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://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03293

ACCESS: Confirmation of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-96b and a Comparison of Light Curve Detrending Techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03479