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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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

February 25, 2022 updates

MHD study of the planetary magnetospheric response during extreme solar wind conditions: Earth and exoplanet magnetospheres applications
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/03/aa41181-21/aa41181-21.html

Sculpting the circumbinary planet size distribution through resonant interactions with companion planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11719

Detection of C2, CN and CH radicals in the spectrum of the transiting hot Jupiter HAT-P-1b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11803

Influences of internal forcing on atmospheric circulations of irradiated giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11974

Search for planets in hot Jupiter systems with multi-sector TESS photometry. II. Constraints on planetary companions in 12 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11990

Redundant apodization for direct imaging of exoplanets I: Robustness to primary mirror segmentation-induced errors outside the segment diffraction limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11993

February 24, 2022 updates

Synthesis of Phospholipids Under Plausible Prebiotic Conditions and Analogies with Phospholipid Biochemistry for Origin of Life Studies
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0059

Destabilization of deep oxidized mantle drove the Great Oxidation Event
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg1626

A model for spin–orbit commensurability and synchronous starspot activity in stars with close-by planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42566-21/aa42566-21.html

Understanding the interior structure of gaseous giant exoplanets with machine learning techniques
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42874-21/aa42874-21.html

Electron particle deflection using a field reversed configuration magnetosphere geometry as an analog for radiation shielding in deep space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117722001247

Recycling of the first atmospheres of embedded planets: Dependence on core mass and optical depth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11422

CHEOPS geometric albedo of the hot Jupiter HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11516

February 23, 2022 updates

Erratum: “TOI-2076 and TOI-1807: Two Young, Comoving Planetary Systems within 50 pc Identified by TESS that are Ideal Candidates for Further Follow Up” (2021, AJ, 162, 54)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac4477

Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in exoplanet direct-imaging instruments with a Zernike phase-mask sensor. IV. Temporal stability of non-common path aberrations in VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10470

Misalignment of terrestrial circumbinary planets as an indicator of their formation mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10495

Nature vs. Nurture: Investigating the Effects of Measurement Uncertainties in the Assessment of Potential Trends Between Planetary and Stellar Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10537

Orbital properties and implications for the initiation of plate tectonics and planetary habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10719

Stability of planetary systems within the S-star cluster: the Solar system analogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10827

Stacked Periodograms as a Probe of Exoplanetary Populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11050

February 22, 2022 updates

Understanding planetary context to enable life detection on exoplanets and test the Copernican principle
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01579-7

Multifunctional metasails for self-stabilized beam-riding and optical communication
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2022/na/d1na00747e

Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13705-022-00338-4

Diurnal variations in the stratosphere of the ultrahot giant exoplanet WASP-121b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01592-w

The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets – II. Influence of surface composition on the diversity of cloud condensates
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa41636-21/aa41636-21.html

A New Perspective on the Interiors of Ice-rich Planets: Ice–Rock Mixture Instead of Ice on Top of Rock
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac458c

ExoMiner: A Highly Accurate and Explainable Deep Learning Classifier That Validates 301 New Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac4399

Evaluating the Impact of Optical Axis Stability on Exoplanet Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ac3df1

Euclid-Roman joint microlensing survey: early mass measurement, free floating planets and exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09475

TESS discovery of a sub-Neptune orbiting a mid-M dwarf TOI-2136
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10024

Detecting and Monitoring Tidal Dissipation of Hot Jupiters in the Era of SiTian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10031

Validation and atmospheric exploration of the sub-Neptune TOI-2136b around a nearby M3 dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.10182