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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August 19, 2022 Updates

A search for transiting planets around hot subdwarfs II. Supplementary methods and results from TESS Cycle 1
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43554-22/aa43554-22.html

Planetary geology: an historical and philosophical overview
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gto.12401

Hunt for interstellar meteorite on sea floor
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407922014749

OGLE-2019-BLG-1470LABc: Another Microlensing Giant Planet in a Binary System?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2315/6671550?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Combining Photometry and Astrometry to Improve Orbit Retrieval of Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08447

On the Masses, Age, and Architecture of the VHS J1256-1257AB b System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08448

A Novel Survey for Young Substellar Objects with the W band Filter.V. IC 348 and Barnard 5 in the Perseus Cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08637

August 18, 2022 Updates

Planetary Protection Assessment of Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)–Powered Landed Missions to Ocean Worlds: Application to Enceladus
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2432

A search for transiting planets around hot subdwarfs – II. Supplementary methods and results from TESS Cycle 1
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43554-22/aa43554-22.html

KMT-2021-BLG-0240: Microlensing event with a deformed planetary signal
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43161-22/aa43161-22.html

The California Legacy Survey. III. On the Shoulders of (Some) Giants: The Relationship between Inner Small Planets and Outer Massive Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac7230

FIESTA II. Disentangling Stellar and Instrumental Variability from Exoplanetary Doppler Shifts in the Fourier Domain
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac77ec

HST UV Spectroscopy of the Planet-Hosting T Tauri Star PDS 70
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07956

Per aspera ad astra simul: Through difficulties to the stars together
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08134

August 16, 2022 Updates

Photobombing Earth 2.0: Diffraction Limit Related Contamination and Uncertainty in Habitable Planet Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06443

Thermal Evolution and magnetic history of rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06523

Atmospheric Thermal Emission Effect on Chandrasekhar’s Finite Atmosphere Problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06656

Precise mass determination for the keystone sub-Neptune planet transiting the mid-type M dwarf G 9-40
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07287

TOI-836: A super-Earth and mini-Neptune transiting a nearby K-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07328

August 15, 2022 Updates

Characterization of Kepler targets based on medium-resolution LAMOST spectra analyzed with ROTFIT
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43268-22/aa43268-22.html

Three new brown dwarfs and a massive hot Jupiter revealed by TESS around early-type stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/08/aa43454-22/aa43454-22.html

OWL-Moon: Very high resolution spectropolarimetric interferometry and imaging from the Moon: exoplanets to cosmology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05971

Signatures of impact-driven atmospheric loss in large ensembles of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05989

Exoplanet Radio Transits as a Probe for Exoplanetary Magnetic Fields — Time-dependent MHD Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06006

Fractional Order Analysis of the Polytropic Models Applied to Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06045

Solar and stellar activity cycles — no synchronization with exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06190

Greater climate sensitivity and variability on TRAPPIST-1e than Earth
Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/2208.06297

TOI-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS reveal a super-Earth in a temperate orbit transiting an M4 dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06333

HD 56414 b: A Warm Neptune Transiting an A-type Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06396