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 8, 2022 updates

A Beacon in the Galaxy: Updated Arecibo Message for Potential FAST and SETI Projects
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202203.0061/v1

Biological and cellular responses of humans to high-level natural radiation: a clarion call for a fresh perspective on the linear no-threshold paradigm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1383571822000390

Sequencing the Origins of Life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667160322000102

Nodal Precession and Tidal Evolution of Two Hot-Jupiters: WASP-33 b and KELT-9 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02546

TOI-1696: a nearby M4 dwarf with a 3R⊕ planet in the Neptunian desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02694

WASP-35 and HAT-P-30/WASP-51: re-analysis using TESS and ground-based transit photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02866

Assessment of Microbial Habitability Across Solar System Targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03171

Uncovering the true periods of the young sub-Neptunes orbiting TOI-2076
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03194

Periodic orbits in the 1:2:3 resonant chain and their impact on the orbital dynamics of the planetary system Kepler-51
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03349

A quantitative assessment of the VO line list: Inaccuracies hamper high-resolution VO detections in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03585

March 7, 2022 Updates

Von Neumann probes: rationale, propulsion, interstellar transfer timing
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/von-neumann-probes-rationale-propulsion-interstellar-transfer-timing/5202679D74645D3707248FE5D5FA0124

A tentative detection of He I in the atmosphere of GJ 1214 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/03/aa42455-21/aa42455-21.html

A search for planetary companions around 800 pulsars from the Jodrell Bank pulsar timing programme
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac593/6542453?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Flares, Rotation, and Planets of the AU Mic System from TESS Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac23ca

The Flaring TESS Objects of Interest: Flare Rates for all Two Minute Cadence TESS Planet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01954

Nodal Precession of WASP-33b for Eleven Years by Doppler Tomographic and Transit Photometric Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02003

Scaling K2. V. Statistical Validation of 60 New Exoplanets From K2 Campaigns 2-18
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02087

MHD study of planetary magnetospheric response during extreme solar wind conditions: Earth and exoplanet magnetospheres applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02324

Non-Local thermal equilibrium spectra of atmospheric molecules for exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02347

A Star-sized Impact-Produced Dust Clump in the Terrestrial Zone of the HD 166191 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02366

A Comprehensive Analysis of WASP-17b’s Transmission Spectrum from Space-Based Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02434

March 4, 2022 updates

Thermal Desorption of Interstellar Ices: A Review on the Controlling Parameters and Their Implications from Snowlines to Chemical Complexity
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00357

Stellar wind effect on the atmospheric escape of hot jupiters and their Ly-α and Hα transits
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac556/6541857

Cross-sections for heavy atmospheres: HO self-broadening
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407322000838

Birth cluster simulations of planetary systems with multiple super-Earths: initial conditions for white dwarf pollution drivers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01364

Confirmation of Water Absorption in the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter WASP-77Ab with HST/WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01463

The exoplanetary magnetosphere extension in Sun-like stars based on the solar wind – solar UV relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01554

The Exosphere as a Boundary: Origin and Evolution of Airless Bodies in the Inner Solar System and Beyond Including Planets with Silicate Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01656

Impact of Variable Photospheric Radius on Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01839

March 3, 2022 updates

Inefficient Water Degassing Inhibits Ocean Formation on Rocky Planets: An Insight from Self-Consistent Mantle Degassing Models
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0126

A wet heterogeneous mantle creates a habitable world in the Hadean
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04371-9

Emerging Role of Exosomal Long Non-coding RNAs in Spaceflight-Associated Risks in Astronauts
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2021.812188/full

Architectures of Compact Super-Earth Systems Shaped by Instabilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00801

A Radial Velocity Study of the Planetary System of Pi Mensae: Improved Planet Parameters for PI Mensae c and a Third Planet on a 125-d Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01018

Internal Structure and Magnetic Moment of Rocky Planets. Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01065