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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May 9, 2022 Updates

Brave new worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922008119

Activity and Rotation of Nearby Field M Dwarfs in the TESS Southern Continuous Viewing Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6110

Deep two-phase, hemispherical magma oceans on lava planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02864

Moderately High Obliquity Promotes Biospheric Oxygenation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02874

Searching for broadband pulsed beacons from 1883 stars using neural networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02964

Classifying Kepler light curves for 12,000 A and F stars using supervised feature-based machine learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03020

May 6, 2022 updates

Hybrid space ship design for interstellar travel with solar sail, nuclear propulsion and mechanism for capture of interstellar hydrogen
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360411561_Hybrid_space_ship_design_for_interstellar_travel_with_solar_sail_nuclear_propulsion_and_mechanism_for_capture_of_interstellar_hydrogen

Capture of interstellar objects – II. By the Solar system
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360306518_Capture_of_interstellar_objects_-_II_By_the_Solar_system

Extreme Habitable Environments – A Bridge between Astrophysics and Astrobiology
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9780429289590/extreme-habitable-environments-madhu-kashyap-jagadeesh-usha-shekhar

The Discovery of a Planetary Companion Interior to Hot Jupiter WASP-132 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02501

Relative Habitability of Exoplanet Systems with Two Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02777

May 5, 2022 updates

Longitudinal MRI-visible perivascular space (PVS) changes with long-duration spaceflight
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11593-y

Can Carbon Fractionation Provide Evidence for Aerial Biospheres in the Atmospheres of Temperate Sub-Neptunes?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac625f

TRAPPIST-1h as an Exo-Titan. I. The Role of Assumptions about Atmospheric Parameters in Understanding an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac59bb

Mutual Inclination of Ultra-short-period Planets with Time-varying Stellar J2 Moments
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6024

Characterising Atmospheres of Cloudy Temperate Mini-Neptunes with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01690

Fingering convection in the stably-stratified layers of planetary cores
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01761

TOI-2046b, TOI-1181b and TOI-1516b, three new hot Jupiters from \textit{TESS}: planets orbiting a young star, a subgiant and a normal star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01860

May 4, 2022 updates

Dayside Fe i Emission, Day–Night Brightness Contrast and Phase Offset of the Exoplanet WASP-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5f4d

Biological Homochirality and the Search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01193

Global 3D simulation of the upper atmosphere of HD189733b and absorption in metastable HeI and Lyα lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01341

A survey of sodium absorption in ten giant exoplanets with high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01623

Radio masers on WX UMa: hints of a Neptune-sized planet, or magnetospheric reconnection?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01661

The Directly-Imaged Exoplanet Host Star 51 Eridani is a Gamma Doradus Pulsator
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01103

May 3, 2022 updates

Volcanic Climate Warming Through Radiative and Dynamical Feedbacks of SO2 Emissions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096612

Integral Field Spectroscopy with the Solar Gravitational Lens
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac5e9d

Secular chaos in white-dwarf planetary systems: Origins of metal pollution and short-period planetary companions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1189/6577138

Analytical Modeling of Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy with Dimensional Analysis and Symbolic Regression
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac610c

Evaluating the Evidence for Water World Populations using Mixture Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00006

Evidence for the Late Arrival of Hot Jupiters in Systems with High Host-star Obliquities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00040

Cloud formation in Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.00454

The transmission spectrum of WASP-17 b from the optical to the near-infrared wavelengths: combining STIS, WFC3 and IRAC datasets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13721