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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October 11, 2022 updates

Key Technological Developments Enabling Human Cosmic Flight
https://osf.io/9587d/

What We Have Learned from our First Two Interstellar Visitors, and the Possibility of Fast Reactive Missions for Future Exploration
https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/FWS22/Session/N01.1

First JWST observations of a gravitational lens – Mass model from new multiple images with near-infrared observations of SMACS J0723.3−7327
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44517-22/aa44517-22.html

Trapping (sub-)Neptunes similar to TOI-216b at the inner disk rim – Implications for the disk viscosity and the Neptunian desert
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44461-22/aa44461-22.html

Orbital evolution of circumbinary planets due to creep tides https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa44318-22/aa44318-22.html

Mass Production of 2021 KMTNet Microlensing Planets. I
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8d6c

Alternative Methylated Biosignatures. I. Methyl Bromide, a Capstone Biosignature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac8799

Three-sided pyramid wavefront sensor. II. Preliminary demonstration on the new CACTI testbed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.0382

October 10. 2022 Updates

Drift Rates of Narrowband Signals in Long-term SETI Observations for Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac90bd

Characterisation of the NUV and Optical Emission and Temperature of Flares from Ross 733 with Swift and TESS
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2886/6753227?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Can Gaia find planets around white dwarfs?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2867/6753223?searchresult=1

Magnetic induction processes in Hot Jupiters, application to KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03351

Experimental and observational tests of antigravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03445

October 07, 2022 updates

Consequences of dynamically unstable moons in extrasolar systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2847/6750237

Estimating the depth of gaps opened by planets in eccentric orbit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2856/6750245

celmech: A Python Package for Celestial Mechanics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8d01

Extremely Inclined Orbit of the S-type Planet γ Cep Ab Induced by the Eccentric Kozai–Lidov Mechanism
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac8f4c

Lava World: Exoplanet Surfaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03056

Exoplanet atmosphere evolution: emulation with neural networks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15162

Roaring Storms in the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b: Hubble Space Telescope Multi-epoch Monitoring Reveals Vigorous Evolution in an Ultra-cool Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02464

A Catalog of Habitable Zone Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02484

Simulating reflected light coronagraphy of Earth-like exoplanets with a large IR/O/UV space telescope: impact and calibration of smooth exozodiacal dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03098

October 06, 2022 updates

Obstacles from interstellar matters and distortion in warp drive superluminal travel scenario
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10840-w

Exoplanet Hunting Using Machine Learning
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-4193-1_67

Life on Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone of M Dwarfs?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac9052

MOA-2020-BLG-208: Cool Sub-Saturn Planet Within Predicted Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02436

October 05, 2022 updates

Half-sibling regression meets exoplanet imaging: PSF modeling and subtraction using a flexible, domain knowledge-driven, causal framework https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/10/aa42529-21/aa42529-21.html

Is binning always sinning? The impact of time-averaging for exoplanet phase-curves
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2828/6748218

MIRECLE: Science Yield for a Mid-infrared Explorer-class Mission to Study Nontransiting Rocky Planets Orbiting the Nearest M Stars Using Planetary Infrared Excess
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac83a5

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): VIII. Detecting rocky exoplanets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01782

Panoramic SETI: Program Update and High-Energy Astrophysics Applications https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01356

No evidence for radius inflation in hot Jupiters from vertical advection of heat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01466