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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April 12, 2022 updates

China is hatching a plan to find Earth 2.0
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01025-2

Gravity Assist: Do Other Planets Make Pollution? With Ravi Kopparapu
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/audio/garavikfinal.mp3

CaRM: Exploring the chromatic Rossiter-McLaughlin effect – The cases of HD 189733b and WASP-127b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa42353-21/aa42353-21.html

WASP-35 and HAT-P-30/WASP-51: Reanalysis using TESS and Ground-based Transit Photometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5b6a

Multiwavelength Mitigation of Stellar Activity in Astrometric Planet Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac56e0

The origin of Earth’s mantle nitrogen: primordial or early biogeochemical cycling?
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GC010295

Resolved imaging of exoplanets with the solar gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04866

Transit Search: An Optimization Algorithm Based on Exoplanet Exploration
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359855085_Transit_Search_An_Optimization_Algorithm_Based_on_Exoplanet_Exploration

Exploring and Validating Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals with Solar System Analog Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04231

Mantle Degassing Lifetimes through Galactic Time and the Maximum Age Stagnant-lid Rocky Exoplanets can Support Temperate Climates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04243

Forming Iron-rich Planets with Giant Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04925

The GAPS Programme at TNG XXXIII. HARPS-N detects multiple atomic species in emission from the dayside of KELT-20b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04948

Finding the ET Signal from the Cosmic Noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04405

alpha-Deep Probabilistic Inference (alpha-DPI): efficient uncertainty quantification from exoplanet astrometry to black hole feature extraction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08506

April 11, 2022 Updates

Dynamics of mixed clathrate-ice shells on ocean worlds
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL097602

Deep learning-based nonlinear model predictive control of the attitude manoeuvre of a barbell electric sail through voltage regulation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652200073X

TRIDENT: A Rapid 3D Radiative-transfer Model for Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac47fe

A highly mutually inclined compact warm-Jupiter system KOI-984?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/512/3/4604/6565609?redirectedFrom=fulltext

If aliens were sending us signals, this is what they might look like
https://phys.org/news/2022-04-aliens.html

MOA-2020-BLG-135Lb: A New Neptune-class Planet for the Extended MOA-II Exoplanet Microlens Statistical Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03672

N-body Interactions will be Detectable in the HR-8799 System within 5 years with VLTI-GRAVITY
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03679

Linking atmospheric chemistry of the hot Jupiter HD 209458b to its formation location through infrared transmission and emission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04103

Dusty circumbinary discs: inner cavity structures and stopping locations of migrating planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04152

April 8, 2022 updates

Multilayers for directed energy accelerated lightsails
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-022-00240-8

Atmosphere Loss in Oblique Super-Earth Collisions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac923/6564717

High-contrast, high-angular resolution view of the GJ 367 exoplanet system
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac961/6564738

Tidally driven tectonic activity as a parameter in exoplanet habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03501

More Evidence for Variable Helium Absorption from HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02985

High-contrast, high-angular resolution view of the GJ 367 exoplanet system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02998

A close-in puffy Neptune with hidden friends: The enigma of TOI 620
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03108

Free-Floating Planets, the Einstein Desert, and ‘Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03269

Constraints on TESS albedos for five hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03327

Half-sibling regression meets exoplanet imaging: PSF modeling and subtraction using a flexible, domain knowledge-driven, causal framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03439

Cloudy and Cloud-free Thermal Phase Curves with PICASO: Applications to WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03545

UV Absorption by Silicate Cloud Precursors in Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03639

April 6, 2022 updates

Travel in the Milky Way
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-54352-5_23

Tidal star-planet interaction and its observed impact on stellar activity in planet-hosting wide binary systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac861/6564186

Interstellar probe – Destination: Universe!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522001503

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). III. Morphology of the Planetary Radius Valley as a Function of Stellar Age and Metallicity in the Galactic Context Revealed by the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01940

Global Mapping of Surface Composition on an Exo-Earth Using Sparse Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01996

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. IV. Complete Statistical Sample of 2019 Prime-Field Microlensing Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02017

The unpopular Package: a Data-driven Approach to De-trend TESS Full Frame Image Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15063