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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December 21, 2021 updates

Software to Determine the Sizes and Orbital Inclinations of Planets from the Transit Observation Data
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772921120015

Rotation Period Detection for Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac36ce

On spectroscopic phase-curve retrievals: H2 dissociation and thermal inversion in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09973

An Accurate 3D Analytic Model for Exoplanetary Photometry, Radial Velocity, and Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10132

Physical Properties and Impact Parameter Variations of Kepler Planets from Analytic Light Curve Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10144

Silicon in the dayside atmospheres of two ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10461

Orbital Period Refinement of CoRoT Planets with TESS Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10535

December 20, 2021 Updates

Predicting the water content of interstellar objects from galactic star formation histories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05773

Estimating fundamental parameters of nearby M dwarfs from SPIRou spectra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3679/6468761?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Characterizing the WASP-4 system with TESS and radial velocity data: Constraints on the cause of the hot Jupiter’s changing orbit and evidence of an outer planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09621

Localizing flares to understand stellar magnetic fields and space weather in exo-systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09676

December 17, 2021 updates

Star Clusters, Planets, Asteroids and Comets in the Light of Big Data
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3036/paper16.pdf

Signatures of strong magnetization and a metal-poor atmosphere for a Neptune-sized exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01505-x

Identify Light-curve Signals with Deep Learning Based Object Detection Algorithm. I. Transit Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3482

Characterization of an Instrument Model for Exoplanet Transit Spectrum Estimation through Wide-scale Analysis on HST Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac341a

On Atmospheric Retrievals of Exoplanets with Inhomogeneous Terminators
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09125

Spectral analysis of cool white dwarfs accreting from planetary systems: from the UV to the optical
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08887

Analysis of the public HARPS/ESO spectroscopic archive — Jupiter-like planets around HD 103891 and HD 105779
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09029

December 15, 2021 updates

NASA delays launch of Webb telescope to no earlier than Dec. 24
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/14/nasa-delays-launch-of-webb-telescope-to-no-earlier-than-dec-24/

A Search for Analogs of KIC 8462852 (Boyajian’s Star): A Second List of Candidates
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3416

GRASS: Distinguishing Planet-induced Doppler Signatures from Granulation with a Synthetic Spectra Generator
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac32c2

Capture of interstellar objects I: the capture cross-section
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07468

Capture of interstellar objects II: by the Solar system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07486

Regular Radial Velocity Variations in Nine G- and K-type Giant Stars: Eight Planets and One Planet Candidate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07169

The similarity of multi-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07413

The Sensitivity of Eclipse Mapping to Planetary Rotation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07667