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 4, 2022 updates

Thermal Desorption of Interstellar Ices: A Review on the Controlling Parameters and Their Implications from Snowlines to Chemical Complexity
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00357

Stellar wind effect on the atmospheric escape of hot jupiters and their Ly-α and Hα transits
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac556/6541857

Cross-sections for heavy atmospheres: HO self-broadening
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407322000838

Birth cluster simulations of planetary systems with multiple super-Earths: initial conditions for white dwarf pollution drivers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01364

Confirmation of Water Absorption in the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter WASP-77Ab with HST/WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01463

The exoplanetary magnetosphere extension in Sun-like stars based on the solar wind – solar UV relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01554

The Exosphere as a Boundary: Origin and Evolution of Airless Bodies in the Inner Solar System and Beyond Including Planets with Silicate Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01656

Impact of Variable Photospheric Radius on Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01839

March 3, 2022 updates

Inefficient Water Degassing Inhibits Ocean Formation on Rocky Planets: An Insight from Self-Consistent Mantle Degassing Models
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0126

A wet heterogeneous mantle creates a habitable world in the Hadean
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04371-9

Emerging Role of Exosomal Long Non-coding RNAs in Spaceflight-Associated Risks in Astronauts
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2021.812188/full

Architectures of Compact Super-Earth Systems Shaped by Instabilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00801

A Radial Velocity Study of the Planetary System of Pi Mensae: Improved Planet Parameters for PI Mensae c and a Third Planet on a 125-d Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01018

Internal Structure and Magnetic Moment of Rocky Planets. Application to the first exoplanets discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01065

March 2, 2022 updates

Ultrahigh-pressure disordered eight-coordinated phase of Mg2GeO4: Analogue for super-Earth mantles
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2114424119

Scaling laws in enzyme function reveal a new kind of biochemical universality
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2106655119

CHEOPS geometric albedo of the hot Jupiter HD 209458 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa43082-22/aa43082-22.html

Discovery and mass measurement of the hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet, GJ 3929 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/03/aa42653-21/aa42653-21.html

The First Near-infrared Transmission Spectrum of HIP 41378 f, A Low-mass Temperate Jovian World in a Multiplanet System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac559d

On The Hydrosphere Stability of TESS Targets: Applications to 700 d, 256 b, and 203 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00222

Homogeneous Transit Timing Analyses of Ten Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00299

K2 and Spitzer phase curves of the rocky ultra-short-period planet K2-141 b hint at a tenuous rock vapor atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00370

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Benchmarking the impact of activity in high-precision radial velocity measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00415

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): II. Signal simulation, signal extraction and fundamental exoplanet parameters from single epoch observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00471

A retrieval challenge exercise for the Ariel mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00482

March 1, 2022 updates

The analysis of Siyu Bian ,Yi Wang,Zun Wang and Mian Zhu applied to the Natario-Broeck spacetime.A very interesting approach towards a more realistic interstellar warp drive
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03570472/document

The impact of AGN outflows on the surface habitability of terrestrial planets in the Milky Way
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac542/6539336

Using birefringent elements and imaging Michelsons for calibration of high precision planet finding spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13421

Doppler-Shifted Alkali D Absorption as Indirect Evidence for Exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13815

February 28, 2022 Updates

Greening the Universe: The Case for Ecocentric Space Expansion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358676509_Greening_the_Universe_The_Case_for_Ecocentric_Space_Expansion

On possible life-dispersal patterns beyond the Earth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/on-possible-lifedispersal-patterns-beyond-the-earth/2096A763F565792F4059D213D95ACDDC

The Detection of Seismicity on Icy Ocean Worlds by Single-Station and Small-Aperture Seismometer Arrays
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EA002065

Constraining giant planet formation with synthetic ALMA images of the Solar System’s natal protoplanetary disk
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa42490-21/aa42490-21.html

Jupiter Observing Velocity Experiment (JOVE): Introduction to Wind Rider Solar Electric Propulsion Demonstrator and Science Objectives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ac4812

The Hubble PanCET program: Emission spectrum of hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12314

Revisiting WASP-47 with ESPRESSO and TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12747

Precise radial velocities of giant stars XVI. Planet occurrence rates from the combined analysis of the Lick, EXPRESS, and PPPS giant star surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12800