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 1, 2022 updates

Planetary Minerals Catalyze Conversion of a Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon to a Prebiotic Quinone: Implications for Origins of Life
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0024

Autodifferentiable Spectrum Model for High-dispersion Characterization of Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac3b4d

Validation of 13 Hot and Potentially Terrestrial TESS Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12661

Confirming the 3:2 Resonance Chain of K2-138
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12687

NEID Rossiter-McLaughlin Measurement of TOI-1268b: A Young Warm Saturn Aligned with Its Cool Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12836

A population of transition disks around evolved stars: Fingerprints of planets? Catalog of disks surrounding Galactic post-AGB binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13155

TOI-1442 b and TOI-2445 b: two ultra-short period super-Earths around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13274

TOI-1268b: the youngest hot Saturn-mass transiting exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13341

Magnitude-squared coherence: A powerful tool for disentangling Doppler planet discoveries from stellar activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.13342

January 31, 2022 Updates

VizieR Online Data Catalog: Warm Jupiters in TESS FFIs 1st year (2018-2019 July)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021yCat..22550006D/abstract

K2 discovery of a circumsecondary disk transiting EPIC 220208795
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42063-21/aa42063-21.html

Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy
I. Computation of transmission spectra using a 1D, 2D, or 3D atmosphere structure
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/02/aa41940-21/aa41940-21.html

Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy
II. Day-night-induced biases in retrievals from hot to ultrahot Jupiters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/02/aa41943-21/aa41943-21.html

General passive stability criteria for a Sun-pointing attitude using the metasurface sail
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1270963822000542

Wormhole solutions in f(R,T) gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107622000070

The Puzzling Story of Flare Inactive Ultra Fast Rotating M dwarfs. II. Searching for radial velocity variations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac188/6517464?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Numerical dissipation strongly affects the equatorial jet speed in simulations of hot jupiter atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac228/6517472?searchresult=1

The impact of faculae on the radius determination of exoplanets: The case of the M-star GJ 1214
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac108/6516440?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Machine learning prediction for mean motion resonance behaviour – The planar case
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac166/6516972?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Origins of Hot Jupiters from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11768

January 28, 2022 updates

Unveiling unresolved stellar components from photometry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-022-09834-z

How does the background atmosphere affect the onset of the runaway greenhouse?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42286-21/aa42286-21.html

Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy – I. Computation of transmission spectra using a 1D, 2D, or 3D atmosphere structure
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/02/aa41940-21/aa41940-21.html

Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy – II. Day-night-induced biases in retrievals from hot to ultrahot Jupiters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/02/aa41943-21/aa41943-21.html

COD: An algorithm for shape reconstruction of transiting celestial bodies through topological optimization
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac135/6516427

Validation of 13 Hot and Potentially Terrestrial TESS Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4334

EarthShine: Observing our world as an exoplanet from the surface of the Moon
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-8/issue-01/014003/EarthShine–Observing-our-world-as-an-exoplanet-from-the/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.014003.full?SSO=1

Alleviating the Transit Timing Variations bias in transit surveys. II. RIVERS: Twin resonant Earth-sized planets around Kepler-1972 recovered from Kepler’s false positive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11459

Water content trends in K2-138 and other low-mass multiplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11532

January 27, 2022 updates

The escape mechanisms of the proto-atmosphere on terrestrial planets: “boil-off” escape, hydrodynamic escape and impact erosion
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11631-021-00515-w

Internal dynamics of magma ocean and its linkage to atmospheres
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11631-021-00514-x

The PLATO field selection process – I. Identification and content of the long-pointing fields
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42256-21/aa42256-21.html

Mining the Ultrahot Skies of HAT-P-70b: Detection of a Profusion of Neutral and Ionized Species
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac402e

A tentative detection of He I in the atmosphere of GJ 1214b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11120

Project Hephaistos I. Upper limits on partial Dyson spheres in the Milky Way
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11123

January 26, 2022 updates

Venus Life Finder Mission Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05153

Physical Properties and Impact Parameter Variations of Kepler Planets from Analytic Light-curve Modeling
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3d96

A Large-scale Approach to Modeling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3976

The DRAKE mission: finding the frequency of life in the Cosmos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10226

Discerning between different ‘Oumuamua models by optical and infrared observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10327