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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September 21, 2022 updates

Land/Ocean Surface Diversity on Earth-like (Exo)planets: Implications for Habitability
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2022/EPSC2022-506.html

Tidal excitation of the obliquity of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of M-dwarf stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa44010-22/aa44010-22.html

The JWST Early Release Science Program for the Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ac77bd

Size does matter: Exoplanet detection with a sparse convolutional neural network
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133722000683

TESS discovery of a super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes orbiting the bright, nearby, Sun-like star HD 22946
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09597

ExoClock Project III: 450 new exoplanet ephemerides from ground and space observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09673

An Exploration of Systematic Errors in Transiting Planets and Their Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09266

September 20, 2022 updates

Space Governance: Risks, Frameworks and Futures
https://spacefuturesinitiative.org/research-papers/risks-frameworks-futures/

Space Colonization and Exonationalism: On the Future of Humanity and Anthropology
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/2/3/10

Welcome to a new frontier in citizen science – exoplanet detection!
https://science.unistellaroptics.com/?_ga=2.18651577.1296306209.1663100711-43923095.1663100711

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – V. Diagnostic potential of a mid-infrared space interferometer for studying Earth analogs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43760-22/aa43760-22.html

A trio of giant planets orbiting evolved star HD 184010
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psac070/6705418

Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge, phase II: Characterization of exoplanet signals in high-contrast images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08120

Constraints on extragalactic transmitters via Breakthrough Listen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08147

The Interstellar Interlopers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08182

SPECULOOS Northern Observatory: searching for red worlds in the northern skies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09112

September 19, 2022 updates

ALMA Detection of Dust Trapping around Lagrangian Points in the LkCa 15 Disk
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac8b10

Introduction to Origins of Biological Homochirality
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-022-09629-4

Variability due to climate and chemistry in observations of oxygenated Earth-analogue exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2604/6702740

Efficient detection and characterization of exoplanets within the diffraction limit: nulling with a mode-selective photonic lantern
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07644

September 16, 2022 updates

The impending opacity challenge in exoplanet atmospheric
characterization
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01773-1

Constraining the origin of giant exoplanets via elemental abundance measurements
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa44516-22/aa44516-22.html

The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXXVIII. Five molecules in the atmosphere of the warm giant planet WASP-69b detected at high spectral resolution
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43854-22/aa43854-22.html

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). I. Dry Cases—The Fellowship of the GCMs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf0

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). II. Moist Cases—The Two Waterworlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf2

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). III. Simulated Observables—the Return of the Spectrum
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6cf1

A Journey Through Tides
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780323908511/a-journey-through-tides

A CHEOPS-enhanced view of the HD3167 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06937

TESS-Keck Survey XIV: 2 giant exoplanets from the Distant Giants Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06958

September 15, 2022 updates

GJ 3090 b: one of the most favourable mini-Neptune for atmospheric characterisation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43975-22/aa43975-22.html

Magnetic Drag and 3D Effects in Theoretical High-resolution Emission Spectra of Ultrahot Jupiters: the Case of WASP-76b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac897b

Revising Properties of Planet–Host Binary Systems. II. Apparent Near-Earth-analog Planets in Binaries Are Often Sub-Neptunes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac89ed

Geometric albedos at short optical wavelengths for the hot Jupiters WASP-43b, WASP-103b, and TrES-3b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06680

Segment-level thermal sensitivity analysis for exo-Earth imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06762

Global dynamics and architecture of the Kepler-444 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06810