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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November 15, 2022 updates

Synthetic torpor protects rats from exposure to accelerated heavy ions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-20382-6

The KOBE experiment: K-dwarfs Orbited By habitable Exoplanets – Project goals, target selection, and stellar characterization
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa43898-22/aa43898-22.html

Additional evidence that Fomalhaut b might be a non-exoplanet
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slac098/6827034

TESS Unveils the Full Phase Curve of WASP-19b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac9b09

Spectropolarimetry as a Means to Address Cloud Composition and Habitability for a Cloudy Exoplanetary Atmosphere in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06450

TOI-1695 b: A Keystone Water World Elucidating Radius Valley Emergence Mechanisms Around Early M Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06445

EOS Manual
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06518

A Close-in Planet Orbiting Giant Star HD 167768
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06576

Discovering Long-period Exoplanets using Deep Learning with Citizen Science Labels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06903

November 14, 2022 Updates

Alien skies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922020474

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS): Determining Inputs to Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05897

How do tidal waves interact with convective vortices in rapidly-rotating planets and stars?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05900

Ultimate limits of exoplanet spectroscopy: a quantum approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06050

Interior heating of rocky exoplanets from stellar flares with application to TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06140

A sub-Neptune planet around TOI-1695 discovered and characterized with SPIRou and TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06205

A search for transit timing variations within the exomoon corridor using Kepler data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06210

November 11, 2022 updates

Sounds of the stars: how scientists are listening in on space
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03597-5

Observatory achieves ‘first light’ with new planet finder
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-observatory-planet-finder.html

Solubility of water in peridotite liquids and the prevalence of steam atmospheres on rocky planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X22005301

Kepler-102: Masses and Compositions for a Super-Earth and Sub-Neptune Orbiting an Active Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05196

Towards a new era in giant exoplanet characterisation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05468

Examining the orbital decay targets KELT-9 b, KELT-16 b and WASP-4 b, and the transit-timing variations of HD 97658 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05646

November 10, 2022 updates

Radial Velocity Survey for Planets around Young stars (RVSPY) https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/11/aa44213-22/aa44213-22.html

Design and application of solar sailing: A review on key technologies https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1000936122002564

High-resolution resonant portraits of a single-planet white dwarf system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04487

Population Study of Astrophysical False Positive Detections in the Southern PLATO field https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04574

KELT-9 and its ultra-hot Jupiter: stellar parameters, composition, and planetary pollution https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04587

High-contrast Imaging around a 2 Myr-old CI Tau with a Close-in Gas Giant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04960

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): VIII. Where is the phosphine? Observing exoplanetary PH3 with a space based MIR nulling interferometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04975

November 09, 2022 updates

Ancient underground water could unlock secrets of alien life

https://www.space.com/ancient-underground-microbes-extraterrestrial-life

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

Roaring Storms in the Planetary-mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b: Hubble Space Telescope Multiepoch Monitoring Reveals Vigorous Evolution in an Ultracool Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac9905

Analysis of Thermal Emissions of Exoplanets with Axially Symmetric Temperature Gradients
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac9381

CAMEMBERT: A Mini-Neptunes GCM Intercomparison, Protocol Version 1.0. A CUISINES Model Intercomparison Project
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04048

Unexpected Long-Term Variability in Jupiter’s Tropospheric Temperatures

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04398