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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December 06, 2022 updates

DTN-based Multi-link Bundle Protocol Architecture for Deep Space Communications
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9952925

Combined Heat Shield and Solar Thermal Propulsion System for an Oberth Maneuver
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.B38595

On the first probe to transit between two interstellar civilizations
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/on-the-first-probe-to-transit-between-two-interstellar-civilizations/00AEDC0E153C45A576DE78EFA5E2F85A

An Early Catalog of Planet-hosting Multiple-star Systems of Order Three and Higher
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac9302

A Six Year, Low-resolution, Multibroadband Transit Photometry Study of HD 189733b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9d37

Dynamics of the Great Oxidation Event from a 3D photochemical-climate model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01389

Searching for Intelligent Life in Gravitational Wave Signals Part I: Present Capabilities and Future Horizons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.02065

Boundary Layers of Circumplanetary Disks around Spinning Planets I. Effects of Rossby Waves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.02311

KOBEsim : a Bayesian observing strategy algorithm for planet detection in radial velocity blind-search surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11207

December 5, 2022 Updates

A CHEOPS-enhanced view of the HD 3167 system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43778-22/aa43778-22.html

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44277-22/aa44277-22.html

JWST spots chemical reactions in exoplanet atmosphere
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407922021698

Religion in space – A sense of divine entitlement pervades private space colonization efforts
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf0791

Expected Fragment Distribution from the First Interstellar Meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00839

December 02, 2022 updates

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b – Detection of Ti and V emission lines and retrieval of a broadened line
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44277-22/aa44277-22.html

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – VI. Detecting rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43846-22/aa43846-22.html

Communicating extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) interaction models based on the Drake equation
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/communicating-extraterrestrial-intelligence-ceti-interaction-models-based-on-the-drake-equation/43E39C0AA642E7A60B82D6DE1E394D5D

Radio-loud Exoplanet-exomoon Survey: GMRT Search for Electron Cyclotron Maser Emission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9eb8

Direct Imaging and Astrometric Discovery of a Superjovian Planet Orbiting an Accelerating Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00034

Life on Titan May Signal Early Life in the Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00473

December 01, 2022 updates

Dynamics and Evolution of Venus’ Mantle Through Time
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00937-9

Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05424-3

The Fermi Paradox revisited: Technosignatures and the Contact Era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16505

Dynamics and Origins of the Near-Resonant Kepler Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16725

JWST NIRCam Defocused Imaging: Photometric Stability Performance and How it Can Sense Mirror Tilts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16727

Nitrogen as a Tracer of Giant Planet Formation. I.: A Universal Deep Adiabatic Profile and Semi-analytical Predictions of Disequilibrium Ammonia Abundances in Warm Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16876

Radial velocity confirmation of a hot super-Neptune discovered by TESS with a warm Saturn-mass companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.17035

November 30, 2022 updates

NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-reveals-an-exoplanet-atmosphere-as-never-seen-before

Episodic Plate Tectonics on Europa: Evidence for Widespread Patches of Mobile-Lid Behavior in the Antijovian Hemisphere
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007492

A strong H− opacity signal in the near-infrared emission spectrum of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa44533-22/aa44533-22.html

Star–planet interaction – Wave structures and wing-wing interaction https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43346-22/aa43346-22.html

Transmission spectroscopy of WASP-7 b with UVES – Detection of Na i D2 and tentative D1 line absorption
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/12/aa43955-22/aa43955-22.html

Erratum: “Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. II. Discovery of a Failed Hot Jupiter on a 2.7 yr, Highly Eccentric Orbit”
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9e51

Tentative Evidence for Transit-timing Variations of WASP-161b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9e50

An efficient Monte Carlo model for the slowing down of photoelectrons. Application to H-$\alpha$ in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14128

Revisiting the space weather environment of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15697

Exciting the TTV Phases of Resonant Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15701

Making hot Jupiters in stellar clusters: the importance of binary exchange
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16015

Observations of planetary winds and outflows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16243