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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MArch 16, 2022 updates

The TESS Triple-9 Catalog: 999 uniformly-vetted exoplanet candidates
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac652/6548905

Deceleration of Exoplanet Missions Utilizing Scarce Antimatter
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522001163

The Solar Shield Concept: Current Status and Future Possibilities
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522000777

Mineral Snowflakes on Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs: Coagulation and Fragmentation of Cloud Particles with HyLandS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07461

Shallow Transits – Deep Learning II: Identify Individual Exoplanetary Transits in Red Noise using Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08017

March 15, 2022 updates

Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Academic and Societal Implications
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-7727-5

Demographics of Exoplanetary Systems
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-88124-5

Applications of a Gaussian process framework for modelling of high-resolution exoplanet spectra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac662/6547777

The Case for Technosignatures: Why They May Be Abundant, Long-lived, Highly Detectable, and Unambiguous
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac5824

A Second Planet Transiting LTT 1445A and a Determination of the Masses of Both Worlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac50a9

On the Structure and Long-term Evolution of Ice-rich Bodies
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4962

The Role of Atmospheric Exchange in False-Positive Biosignature Detection
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE006853

The Interstellar Ramjet: Engineering Nightmare
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359203763_The_Interstellar_Ramjet_Engineering_Nightmare

Revisiting BD-06 1339b: A Likely False Positive Caused by Stellar Activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06191

Continuous Habitable Zones: Using Bayesian Methods to Prioritize Characterization of Potentially Habitable Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06259

Transverse Vector Decomposition Method for Analytical Inversion of Exoplanet Transit Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06299

Mass loss by atmospheric escape from extremely close-in planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06302

TOI-3757 b: A low density gas giant orbiting a solar-metallicity M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07178

Revisiting Kepler Transiting Systems: Unvetting Planets and Constraining Relationships among Harmonics in Phase Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07312

March 14, 2022 Updates

Transit timing variations of AU Microscopii b and c
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa43076-22/aa43076-22.html

How drifting and evaporating pebbles shape giant planets (Corrigendum)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa41096e-21/aa41096e-21.html

Galactic chemical evolution of the solar neighborhood, solar twins and exoplanet indicators
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05592

Optical Design of the Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05633

Empirical limb-darkening coefficients & transit parameters of known exoplanets from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05661

The polar orbit of the warm Neptune GJ436b seen with VLT/ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06109

March 11, 2022 updates

A Comprehensive Analysis of WASP-17b’s Transmission Spectrum from Space-Based Observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac661/6546167

The study on transmission spectrum and TTV behaviour of the hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac623/6545809

Scheduling Direct Imaging Observations Based on Radial Velocity Orbital Fits: Best Practices for Translating Orbits and Failure Modes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5049

Stellar Companions to TESS Objects of Interest: A Test of Planet–Companion Alignment
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac53a7

Exoplanet atmospheres at high resolution through a modest-size telescope. Fe II in MASCARA-2b and KELT-9b with FIES on the Nordic Optical Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04969

Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05460

March 10, 2022 updates

How to talk to extraterrestrials
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/03/how-to-talk-to-extraterrestrials/

p-winds: An open-source Python code to model planetary outflows and upper atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa42038-21/aa42038-21.html

Evidence that the Hot Jupiter WASP-77 A b Formed Beyond Its Parent Protoplanetary Disk’s H2O Ice Line
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4d9f

Revisiting the Full Sets of Orbital Parameters for the XO-3 System: No Evidence for Temporal Variation of the Spin–Orbit Angle
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4e1a

Quantitative characterization of photonic sail candidates using nanocantilever displacement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522001114

TOI-1670 b and c: An Inner Sub-Neptune with an Outer Warm Jupiter Unlikely to have Originated from High-Eccentricity Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04334

The Hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO II: Confirmation of atmospheric sodium
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04494

HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XV. Planetary occurrence rates around early-M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04648

A continuous multiple hypothesis testing framework for optimal exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04957