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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March 11, 2022 updates

A Comprehensive Analysis of WASP-17b’s Transmission Spectrum from Space-Based Observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac661/6546167

The study on transmission spectrum and TTV behaviour of the hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac623/6545809

Scheduling Direct Imaging Observations Based on Radial Velocity Orbital Fits: Best Practices for Translating Orbits and Failure Modes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5049

Stellar Companions to TESS Objects of Interest: A Test of Planet–Companion Alignment
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac53a7

Exoplanet atmospheres at high resolution through a modest-size telescope. Fe II in MASCARA-2b and KELT-9b with FIES on the Nordic Optical Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04969

Stellar obliquities in exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05460

March 10, 2022 updates

How to talk to extraterrestrials
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/03/how-to-talk-to-extraterrestrials/

p-winds: An open-source Python code to model planetary outflows and upper atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa42038-21/aa42038-21.html

Evidence that the Hot Jupiter WASP-77 A b Formed Beyond Its Parent Protoplanetary Disk’s H2O Ice Line
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4d9f

Revisiting the Full Sets of Orbital Parameters for the XO-3 System: No Evidence for Temporal Variation of the Spin–Orbit Angle
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4e1a

Quantitative characterization of photonic sail candidates using nanocantilever displacement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522001114

TOI-1670 b and c: An Inner Sub-Neptune with an Outer Warm Jupiter Unlikely to have Originated from High-Eccentricity Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04334

The Hot Neptune WASP-166 b with ESPRESSO II: Confirmation of atmospheric sodium
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04494

HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XV. Planetary occurrence rates around early-M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04648

A continuous multiple hypothesis testing framework for optimal exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04957

March 8, 2022 updates

A Beacon in the Galaxy: Updated Arecibo Message for Potential FAST and SETI Projects
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202203.0061/v1

Biological and cellular responses of humans to high-level natural radiation: a clarion call for a fresh perspective on the linear no-threshold paradigm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1383571822000390

Sequencing the Origins of Life
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667160322000102

Nodal Precession and Tidal Evolution of Two Hot-Jupiters: WASP-33 b and KELT-9 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02546

TOI-1696: a nearby M4 dwarf with a 3R⊕ planet in the Neptunian desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02694

WASP-35 and HAT-P-30/WASP-51: re-analysis using TESS and ground-based transit photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02866

Assessment of Microbial Habitability Across Solar System Targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03171

Uncovering the true periods of the young sub-Neptunes orbiting TOI-2076
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03194

Periodic orbits in the 1:2:3 resonant chain and their impact on the orbital dynamics of the planetary system Kepler-51
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03349

A quantitative assessment of the VO line list: Inaccuracies hamper high-resolution VO detections in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03585

March 7, 2022 Updates

Von Neumann probes: rationale, propulsion, interstellar transfer timing
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/von-neumann-probes-rationale-propulsion-interstellar-transfer-timing/5202679D74645D3707248FE5D5FA0124

A tentative detection of He I in the atmosphere of GJ 1214 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/03/aa42455-21/aa42455-21.html

A search for planetary companions around 800 pulsars from the Jodrell Bank pulsar timing programme
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac593/6542453?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Flares, Rotation, and Planets of the AU Mic System from TESS Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac23ca

The Flaring TESS Objects of Interest: Flare Rates for all Two Minute Cadence TESS Planet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01954

Nodal Precession of WASP-33b for Eleven Years by Doppler Tomographic and Transit Photometric Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02003

Scaling K2. V. Statistical Validation of 60 New Exoplanets From K2 Campaigns 2-18
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02087

MHD study of planetary magnetospheric response during extreme solar wind conditions: Earth and exoplanet magnetospheres applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02324

Non-Local thermal equilibrium spectra of atmospheric molecules for exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02347

A Star-sized Impact-Produced Dust Clump in the Terrestrial Zone of the HD 166191 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02366

A Comprehensive Analysis of WASP-17b’s Transmission Spectrum from Space-Based Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.02434