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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November 2, 2021 updates

Metasurface Laser Lightsails
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9577132

Antimatter as an Energy Source
https://www.ijres.org/papers/Volume-9/Issue-10/Ser-3/I09105055.pdf

Changes in Blood Biomarkers of Brain Injury and Degeneration Following Long-Duration Spaceflight
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2784623

A Search for Planetary Metastable Helium Absorption in the V1298 Tau System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1bb0

Jules Verne’s Formulation of the Fermi Question
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac3428

Oxygen controls on magmatism in rocky exoplanets
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/45/e2110427118

The “Breaking The Chains” migration model for super-Earths formation: the effect of collisional fragmentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00059

Stellar Wind Effect on the Atmospheric Escape of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00471

Hiding in plain sight: observing planet-starspot crossings with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00828

November 1, 2021 Updates

Updates Monday 11/01/21

No Redetections of blc1 in 39 hr of Reobservation Campaigns of Proxima Centauri
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac33b2

An approximate superposition method to obtain a planet’s orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/ac2e70

Boundary Layer Circumplanetary Accretion: How Fast Could an Unmagnetized Planet Spin Up through Its Disk?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1941

Zodiacal exoplanets in time (ZEIT) XIII: Planet orbits and atmospheres in the V1298 Tau system, a keystone in studies of early planetary evolution
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3107/6413572?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Maximum temperatures in evolving protoplanetary discs and composition of planetary building blocks
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab837

Interstellar planetesimals: potential seeds for planet formation?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15366

Carbon monoxide gas produced by a giant impact in the inner region of a young system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15377

3D radiative-transfer for exoplanet atmospheres. gCMCRT: a GPU accelerated MCRT code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15640

Direct emission spectroscopy of exoplanets with the medium resolution imaging spectrometer on board JWST MIRI: I. Molecular mapping and sensitivity to instrumental effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15756

October 29, 2021 updates

prose: A Python framework for modular astronomical images processing
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3113/6414007

Was Venus Ever Habitable? Constraints from a Coupled Interior–Atmosphere–Redox Evolution Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac2580

Hidden water in magma ocean exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15069

Exoplanet atmosphere evolution: emulation with random forests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15162

Non-homogeneous exoplanets in metric-affine gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15139

First Doppler Limits on Binary Planets and Exomoons in the HR 8799 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14650

KELT-9 as an eclipsing double-lined spectroscopic binary: a unique and self-consistent solution to the system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15275

On the Possibility of an Artificial Origin for `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15213

A glint in the eye: photographic plate archive searches for alien visitations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15217

October 28, 2021 updates

A solar C/O and sub-solar metallicity in a hot Jupiter atmosphere
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03912-6

Call for a framework for reporting evidence for life beyond Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03804-9.epdf

A birth-death-migration model for life in astrophysical environments
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3108/6413568

Unveiling Shrouded Oceans on Temperate sub-Neptunes via Transit Signatures of Solubility Equilibria versus Gas Thermochemistry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac1f92

Effects of Hydrogen on the Phase Relations in Fe–FeS at Pressures of Mars-Sized Bodies
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE006942

Gemini/GMOS Transmission Spectroscopy of the Grazing Planet Candidate WD 1856+534 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14106

The Rossiter-McLaughlin effect Revolutions: An ultra-short period planet and a warm mini-Neptune on perpendicular orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14214

Revisiting TrES-5 b: departure from a linear ephemeris instead of short-period transit timing variation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14294

Detection capability of ground-based meter-sized telescopes for shallow exoplanet transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14344

Using the Climate App to learn about Planetary Habitability and Climate Change
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14087

October 27, 2021 updates

The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect revolutions: an ultra-short period planet and a warm mini-Neptune on perpendicular orbits
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41527-21/aa41527-21.html

CARMENES detection of the Ca II infrared triplet and possible evidence of He I in the atmosphere of WASP-76b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa41669-21/aa41669-21.html

Obliquity Constraints on the Planetary-mass Companion HD 106906 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1bb1

Friends and Foes: Conditional Occurrence Rates of Exoplanet Companions and Their Impact on Radial Velocity Follow-up Surveys
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1db8

Effects of Spin–Orbit Resonances and Tidal Heating on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac135c

Retrieving Exoplanet Atmospheres Using Planetary Infrared Excess: Prospects for the Night Side of WASP-43 b and Other Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac2cc2

Implementation of disequilibrium chemistry to spectral retrieval code ARCiS and application to sixteen exoplanet transmission spectra: Indication of disequilibrium chemistry for HD 209458b and WASP-39b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13443

The strange case of Na I in the atmosphere of HD209458 b: Reconciling low- and high-resolution spectroscopic observations G
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13548

Hα and He I absorption in HAT-P-32 b observed with CARMENES — Detection of Roche lobe overflow and mass loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13582

Galactic cosmic ray propagation through M dwarf planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13712

X-ray irradiation of three planets around Hyades star K2-136
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13754

ExoClock project II: A large-scale integrated study with 180 updated exoplanet ephemerides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13863