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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June 1, 2022 updates

Hybrid Observatory for Earth-like Exoplanets (HOEE)
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2022/Hybrid_Observatory_for_Earth_like_Exoplanets/

Diffractive Solar Sailing
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2022/diffractive_solar_sailing/

Galactic chemical evolution of exoplanet host stars: Are high-mass planetary systems young?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15793

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG. XXXV. Fundamental properties of transiting exoplanet host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15796

May 31, 2022 updates

Extraterrestrial life
https://wiki.edunitas.com/IT/114-10/aliens_8383_eduNitas.html

Search for exoplanets around northern circumpolar stars – V. Three likely planetary companions to the giant stars HD 19615, HD 150010, and HD 174205
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/06/aa42379-21/aa42379-21.html

The need for a public forecast of stellar activity to optimise exoplanet radial velocity detections & transmission spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1446/6595315

Application and challenges of 3D food printing technology in manned spaceflight: A review
https://ifst.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijfs.15879

Wind-Pellet Shear Sailing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14117

Water observed in the atmosphere of τ Bootis Ab with CARMENES/CAHA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14975

May 30, 2022 Updates

The Fellowship of the Dyson Ring: ACT&Friends’ Results and Methods for GTOC 11
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10124

Intermediate Points for Missions to Interstellar Objects Using Optimum Interplanetary Trajectory Software
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10220

Charged traversable wormholes supported by Casimir energy with and without GUP corrections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321322001997

Vetting the Lobster Diagram: Searching for Unseen Companions in Wide Binaries using NASA Space Exoplanet Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13715

Properties of the radius valley around low mass stars: Predictions from the core-powered mass-loss mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14020

May 27, 2022 updates

Extreme solar events
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41116-022-00033-8

Geology from 50 Light-Years: Webb Gets Ready to Study Rocky Worlds
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/geology-from-50-light-years-webb-gets-ready-to-study-rocky-worlds

The μ Arae Planetary System: Radial Velocities and Astrometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6ac8

RV-detected planets around M dwarfs: Challenges for core accretion models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12971

The JWST Early Release Science Program for the Direct Imaging & Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12972

Cost-Optimal System Performance Maps for Laser-Accelerated Sailcraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13138

May 26, 2022 updates

TOI-2046b, TOI-1181b and TOI-1516b, three new hot Jupiters from TESS: planets orbiting a young star, a subgiant and a normal star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1254/6593406

On the Dayside Atmosphere of WASP-12b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1e9f

Astronomische Nachrichten – Special Issue:A high‐energy view of exoplanets and their environments
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15213994/2022/343/4

KMT-2021-BLG-0171Lb and KMT-2021-BLG-1689Lb: Two Microlensing Planets in the KMTNet High-cadence Fields with Followup Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12584