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 17, 2023 updates

Sub-Jovian desert of exoplanets at its boundaries – Parameter dependence along the main sequence
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa44846-22/aa44846-22.html

Observability of silicates in volatile atmospheres of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes – Exploring the edge of the evaporation desert
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45521-22/aa45521-22.html

Removal of Hot Saturns in Mass–Radius Plane by Runaway Mass Loss https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acbd35

A Gap-sharing Planet Pair Shaping the Crescent in HD 163296: A Disk Sculpted by a Resonant Chain
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acbea8

A persistent influence of supernovae on biodiversity over the Phanerozoic
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.9898

An Origin of Narrow Extended Structure in the Interstellar Medium: An Interstellar Contrail Created by a Fast-moving Massive Object
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb7ea

Using Machine Learning to determine the most important features in exoplanet verification
https://www.jsr.org/hs/index.php/path/article/view/2821

OGLE-2016-BLG-1195 AO: Lens, Companion to Lens or Source, or None of the Above?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08876

Solar center-to-limb variation in Rossiter-McLaughlin and exoplanet transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09169

ExoplANNET: A deep learning algorithm to detect and identify planetary signals in radial velocity data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09335

Detection of a high-velocity sodium feature on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09376

On the origin of the non-detection of metastable HeI in the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-80b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.09501

March 16, 2023 updates

A super-Earth and a mini-Neptune near the 2:1 MMR straddling the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf TOI-2096
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08174

Terrestrial and Neptune mass free-floating planet candidates from the MOA-II 9-year Galactic Bulge survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08279

Free-Floating planet Mass Function from MOA-II 9-year survey towards the Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08280

A search for exoplanets around north circumpolar stars. VII. Detection of planetary companion orbiting the largest host star HD 18438
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08357

March 15, 2023 updates

Simulated performance of the molecular mapping for young giant exoplanets with the Medium-Resolution Spectrometer of JWST/MIRI
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45094-22/aa45094-22.html

Scattered polarized radiation of extrasolar circumplanetary rings
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45474-22/aa45474-22.html

Localizing The First Interstellar Meteor With Seismometer Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07357

LRG-BEASTS: Evidence for clouds in the transmission spectrum of HATS-46 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07381

March 14, 2023 updates

The Science of Breaking Spacetime with a Wormhole
https://thecosmical.com/how-can-we-break-spacetime-with-a-wormhole/

Pancosmorio (world limit) theory of the sustainability of human migration and settlement in space
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1081340/full

Planetary geodynamics and age constraints on circumstellar habitable zones around main sequence stars
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/planetary-geodynamics-and-age-constraints-on-circumstellar-habitable-zones-around-main-sequence-stars/FE236FDBEE1A6569FA601D428215987A

A numerical study of fourth- and fifth-order retrograde mean motion resonances in planetary systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/520/3/4696/7022333

TTV Constraints on Additional Planets in the WD 1856+534 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06157

A Catalog of Exoplanets with Equilibrium Temperature less than 600 K
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06214

An unlikely survivor: a low-density hot Neptune orbiting a red giant star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06728

The energetic particle environment of a GJ 436 b-like planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07058

High Forward Thrust Metasurface Beam-Riding Sail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06793

March 13, 2023 Updates

Anatomy of rocky planets formed by rapid pebble accretion I. How icy pebbles determine the core fraction and FeO contents
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa42141-21/aa42141-21.html

Constraining planetary mass-loss rates by simulating Parker wind profiles with Cloudy (Corrigendum)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa43830e-22/aa43830e-22.html

The K2 and TESS Synergy. II. Revisiting 26 Systems in the TESS Primary Mission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acaf03

Magnetic activity variability from Hα line intensive monitoring of two F-type stars with a hot Jupiter, τ Bootis A and υ Andromedae A
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psad010/7076234?redirectedFrom=fulltext

The origin of free-floating planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05522

Assessing the spin-orbit obliquity of low-mass planets in the breaking the chain formation model: A story of misalignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05635

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VIII. Nondetection of sodium in the atmosphere of the aligned planet KELT-10b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05857