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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April 8, 2022 updates

Multilayers for directed energy accelerated lightsails
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-022-00240-8

Atmosphere Loss in Oblique Super-Earth Collisions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac923/6564717

High-contrast, high-angular resolution view of the GJ 367 exoplanet system
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac961/6564738

Tidally driven tectonic activity as a parameter in exoplanet habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03501

More Evidence for Variable Helium Absorption from HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02985

High-contrast, high-angular resolution view of the GJ 367 exoplanet system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02998

A close-in puffy Neptune with hidden friends: The enigma of TOI 620
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03108

Free-Floating Planets, the Einstein Desert, and ‘Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03269

Constraints on TESS albedos for five hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03327

Half-sibling regression meets exoplanet imaging: PSF modeling and subtraction using a flexible, domain knowledge-driven, causal framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03439

Cloudy and Cloud-free Thermal Phase Curves with PICASO: Applications to WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03545

UV Absorption by Silicate Cloud Precursors in Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03639

April 6, 2022 updates

Travel in the Milky Way
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-54352-5_23

Tidal star-planet interaction and its observed impact on stellar activity in planet-hosting wide binary systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac861/6564186

Interstellar probe – Destination: Universe!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522001503

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). III. Morphology of the Planetary Radius Valley as a Function of Stellar Age and Metallicity in the Galactic Context Revealed by the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01940

Global Mapping of Surface Composition on an Exo-Earth Using Sparse Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01996

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. IV. Complete Statistical Sample of 2019 Prime-Field Microlensing Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02017

The unpopular Package: a Data-driven Approach to De-trend TESS Full Frame Image Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15063

April 5, 2022 updates

Thorium Candlestick Fission Fragment Starship
https://www.academia.edu/32042136/Thorium_Candlestick_Fission_Fragment_Starship

Nonthermal Atmospheric Loss of the Sub-Neptune π Men c Due to Exothermic Photochemistry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094622020010

Images of embedded Jovian planet formation at a wide separation around AB Aurigae
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01634-x

The Number of Possible CETIs within Our Galaxy and the Communication Probability among These CETIs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac561d

Phantom traversable wormholes in modified teleparallel gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907322000570

Follow-up observations of the binary system γ Cep
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20224014

The case and context for atmospheric methane as an exoplanet biosignature
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2117933119

Identifying Exoplanets with Machine Learning Methods: A Preliminary Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00721

Near infrared and optical emission of WASP-5 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01137

The rotation of planet-hosting stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01421

April 4, 2022 Updates

The Path to Transformational Space Exploration: Volume 2: Applications of Directed Energy
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/11918-vol2

Gravity darkening and tidally perturbed stellar pulsation in the misaligned exoplanet system WASP-33
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa43299-22/aa43299-22.html

Phosphorus and Life on a Water World
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL097346

The struggle to define a planet sees some alien worlds kicked off the list
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922005553

N-body Interactions will be Detectable in the HR-8799 System within 5 yr with VLTI-GRAVITY
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac61d8

Kepler-1656b’s Extreme Eccentricity: Signature of a Gentle Giant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00019