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 07, 2022 updates

Tentative Evidence for Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the
Neptune-sized Exoplanet HD 106315c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac85be

Extremely Inclined Orbit of S-type Planet γ Cep Ab Induced by Eccentric Kozai-Lidov Mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01472

Detection of Paschen β absorption in the atmosphere of KELT-9 b: A new window into the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01854

Upgrading the high contrast imaging facility SPHERE: science drivers and instrument choices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02092

Smaller Sensitivity of Precipitation to Surface Temperature under Massive Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02294

Impact of stellar flares on the chemical composition and transmission spectra of gaseous exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02483

Overview of the Galileo Project
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02479

Optimum Location to Intercept Interstellar Objects with Build-and-wait Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01392

September 5, 2022 Updates

Potential Habitability as a Stellar Property: Asessing the Habitable
Histories of Stellar Systems
https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/files/final_submissions/26224

Important Elements of the Anthropic Principle
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362875762_Important_Elements_of_the_Anthropic_Principle

Convective inhibition with an ocean
I. Supercritical cores on sub-Neptunes/super-Earths
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43359-22/aa43359-22.html

Exoplanet CO2 spotted for first time
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922015585

Carbon dioxide detected around alien world for first time
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade6578

Webb telescope wows with first image of an exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02807-4

A massive planet circles a huge star doomed to explode
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02166-0

Rethinking the role of the giant planet instability in terrestrial planet formation models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00706

RVSPY — Radial Velocity Survey for Planets around Young Stars. Target characterization and high-cadence survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.01125

September 02, 2022 updates

A direct numerical verification of tidal locking mechanism using the discrete element method
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-022-10093-5

Convective inhibition with an ocean – I. Supercritical cores on sub-Neptunes/super-Earths
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa43359-22/aa43359-22.html

MOA-2019-BLG-008Lb: A New Microlensing Detection of an Object at the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac78ed

The TESS–Keck Survey. XIII. An Eccentric Hot Neptune with a Similar-mass Outer Companion around TOI-1272
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7ce1

Analytic Light Curve for Mutual Transits of Two Bodies Across a Limb-darkened Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac82b1

The final design of the iLocater spectrograph: An optimized architecture for diffraction-limited EPRV instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00009

The iLocater cryostat and thermal control system: enabling extremely precise radial velocity measurements for diffraction-limited spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00028

Fabrication of Pupil Masks for a New Infrared Exoplanet Imager at Keck Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00048

KMT-2017-BLG-0673Lb and KMT-2019-BLG-0414Lb: Two microlensing planets detected in peripheral fields of KMTNet survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00112

New Dynamical State and Habitability of the HD 45364 Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00120

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VII. Detection of sodium on the long-transiting inflated sub-Saturn KELT-11 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00597

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems II: A 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00620

ACCESS: Tentative detection of H2O in the ground-based optical transmission spectrum of the low-density hot Saturn HATS-5b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00637

The JWST Early Release Science Program for the Direct Imaging & Spectroscopy of Exoplanetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12972

September 01, 2022 updates

Observing exoplanets from Antarctica in two colours: set-up and operation of ASTEP+
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12182/121822O/Observing-exoplanets-from-Antarctica-in-two-colours–set-up/10.1117/12.2628952.short

The Earth 2.0 space mission analysis and spacecraft design
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/1218017/The-Earth-20-space-mission-analysis-and-spacecraft-design/10.1117/12.2629697.short

The Earth 2.0 space mission for detecting Earth-like planets around solar type stars
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/1218015/The-Earth-20-space-mission-for-detecting-Earth-like-planets/10.1117/12.2630656.short

Conceptual design study of the science payload for the Earth 2.0 mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/121804A/Conceptual-design-study-of-the-science-payload-for-the-Earth/10.1117/12.2630044.short

Science goals of the Earth 2.0 space mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12180/1218016/Science-goals-of-the-Earth-20-space-mission/10.1117/12.2630151.short

Transit least-squares survey – IV. Earth-like transiting planets expected from the PLATO mission
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/09/aa41640-21/aa41640-21.html

3D Orbital Architecture of a Dwarf Binary System and Its Planetary Companion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7c66

Utilizing a global network of telescopes to update the ephemeris for the highly eccentric planet HD 80606 b and to ensure the efficient scheduling of JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14520

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems I: High Contrast Imaging of the Exoplanet HIP 65426 b from 2-16 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14990