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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January 17, 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

Invited review: Infrared spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres: Searching for insights into their past and present histories
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522000070

First TESS light curve solution and orbital period analysis of V567 And
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621001676

Chemical Differentiation of Planets: A Core Issue
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac300b

Discovery Alert: Water Vapor Detected on a ‘Super Neptune’
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1698/discovery-alert-water-vapor-detected-on-a-super-neptune/

January 14, 2022 updates

Out of Thin Air? Astrobiology and Atmospheric Chemotrophy
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0066

Molten iron in Earth-like exoplanet cores
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn2051

Measuring the melting curve of iron at super-Earth core conditions
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm1472

An exomoon survey of 70 cool giant exoplanets and the new candidate Kepler-1708 b-i
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01539-1

AAS 239 Press Conference: Exoplanets & Their Atmospheres
https://youtu.be/RE7O08zK4gU

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): VI. Ideal kernel-nulling array architectures for a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04891

Gaia as Solaris: An Alternative Default Evolutionary Trajectory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04956

Radio bridges of the future between Solar system and the nearest 50 stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04969

January 13, 2022 updates

The TESS-Keck Survey. VIII. Confirmation of a Transiting Giant Planet on an Eccentric 261 Day Orbit with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac415b

Evolutionary and Observational Consequences of Dyson Sphere Feedback
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3421

TESS Giants Transiting Giants II: The hottest Jupiters orbiting evolved stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04140

Variable and super-sonic winds in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04154

A Mirage or an Oasis? Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the Warm Neptune TOI-674 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04197

Project Lyra: A Mission to 1I/’Oumuamua without Solar Oberth Manoeuvre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04240

Characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres through a model-unbiased spectral survey methodology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04285

The importance of silicate vapor in determining the structure, radii, and envelope mass fractions of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04299

OGLE-2016-BLG-1093Lb: A Sub-Jupiter-mass Spitzer Planet Located in Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04312

The impact of faculae on the radius determination of exoplanets: The case of the M-star GJ1214
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04413

Identifying interesting planetary systems for future X-ray observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04508

The atmosphere and architecture of WASP-189 b probed by its CHEOPS phase curve
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04518

January 12, 2022 updates

Pandora mission to study stars and exoplanets continues toward flight
https://www.llnl.gov/news/pandora-mission-study-stars-and-exoplanets-continues-toward-flight

A pair of Sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterised with CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03570

The chaotic history of the retrograde multi-planet system in K2-290A driven by distant stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03586

Tidal erasure of stellar obliquities constrains the timing of hot Jupiter formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03653

FIESTA II. Disentangling stellar and instrumental variability from exoplanetary Doppler shifts in Fourier domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03780

The intrinsic multiplicity distribution of exoplanets revealed from the radial velocity method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03782

Relative abundance constraints from high-resolution optical transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b, and a fast model-filtering technique for accelerating retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04025

January 11, 2022 updates

Designing a Plasma Flux Compression Generator for Pulsed Nuclear Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B38434

Detection of the tidal deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/01/aa42196-21/aa42196-21.html

Extreme-ultraviolet- and X-Ray-driven Photochemistry of Gaseous Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac3f3c

Cometary Activity beyond the Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac323b

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. I.: A Noninflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac38a1

Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet Host Star HR 8799
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3bb5

Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac488e

ExoVista: A Suite of Planetary System Models for Exoplanet Studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02652

An Energy Balance Model for Rapidly and Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02685

The First Near-Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HIP 41378 f, a Low-Mass Temperate Jovian World in a Multi-Planet System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02686

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Exploratory Data Analysis of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02696

A Framework for Characterizing Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets with Circumplanetary Rings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02794

MAGRATHEA: an open-source spherical symmetric planet interior structure code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03094

AURA-3D: A Three-dimensional Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03532

Radiation Effects from ISM and Cosmic Ray Particle Impacts on Relativistic Spacecraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02721