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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February 22, 2022 updates

Understanding planetary context to enable life detection on exoplanets and test the Copernican principle
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01579-7

Multifunctional metasails for self-stabilized beam-riding and optical communication
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/na/d1na00747e

Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13705-022-00338-4

Diurnal variations in the stratosphere of the ultrahot giant exoplanet WASP-121b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01592-w

The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets – II. Influence of surface composition on the diversity of cloud condensates
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa41636-21/aa41636-21.html

A New Perspective on the Interiors of Ice-rich Planets: Ice–Rock Mixture Instead of Ice on Top of Rock
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac458c

ExoMiner: A Highly Accurate and Explainable Deep Learning Classifier That Validates 301 New Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4399

Evaluating the Impact of Optical Axis Stability on Exoplanet Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ac3df1

Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: early mass measurement, free floating planets and exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09475

TESS discovery of a sub-Neptune orbiting a mid-M dwarf TOI-2136
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10024

Detecting and Monitoring Tidal Dissipation of Hot Jupiters in the Era of SiTian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10031

Validation and atmospheric exploration of the sub-Neptune TOI-2136b around a nearby M3 dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10182

February 21, 2022 Updates

Detection of the tidal deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS (Corrigendum)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/02/aa42196e-21/aa42196e-21.html

Habitable world may be orbiting dead star
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922002780

ROME III. The Arecibo Search for Auroral Emissions and Star-Planet Interactions at 5 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08899

Probing Inner-Edge of Dead Zones in Protoplanetary Disks with ALMA and Next Generation Very Large Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09047

Exploring the deep atmospheres of HD 209458b and WASP-43b using a non-gray GCM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09183

February 18, 2022 updates

Studying the next interstellar interloper with Webb
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/studying-the-next-interstellar-interloper-with-webb

Stability of planetary systems within the S-star cluster: the Solar system analogues
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac462/6530663

HD 207897 b: A dense sub-Neptune transiting a nearby and bright K-type star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/02/aa41429-21/aa41429-21.html

Testing whether a signal is strictly periodic – Application to disentangling planets and stellar activity in radial velocities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa41197-21/aa41197-21.html

Reassessing the Evidence for Time Variability in the Atmosphere of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08279

A numerical criterion evaluating the robustness of planetary architectures; applications to the υ Andromedæ system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08616

Helium absorption in exoplanet atmospheres is connected to stellar coronal abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08838

February 17, 2022 updates

NEID Rossiter–McLaughlin Measurement of TOI-1268b: A Young Warm Saturn Aligned with Its Cool Host Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac4da0

Observations of PAHs in the atmospheres of discs and exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08252

Simulating the Space Weather in the AU Mic System: Stellar Winds and Extreme Coronal Mass Ejections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07949

Revisiting the Full Sets of Orbital Parameters for the XO-3 System: No evidence for Temporal Variation of the Spin-Orbit Angle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07723

February 16, 2022 updates

Advances in 3D Bioprinting
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772665722000010

Taking the Gaia hypothesis at face value
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1476945X22000034

Modeling Stellar Jitter for the Detection of Earth-Mass Exoplanets via Precision Radial Velocity Measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07087

Disentangling the parameter space: The role of planet multiplicity in triggering dynamical instabilities on planetary systems around white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07159

On possible life-dispersal patterns beyond the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07347

Nonlinear tidal excitation of super-harmonic gravity waves in main-sequence stars in binary and exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07450