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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June 22, 2022 updates

Stability of high-temperature salty ice suggests electrolyte permeability in water-rich exoplanet icy mantles
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30796-5

Salty ice and the dilemma of ocean exoplanet habitability
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-30799-2

Active lithoautotrophic and methane-oxidizing microbial community in an anoxic, sub-zero, and hypersaline High Arctic spring
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-022-01233-8

Prevalence of short-lived radioactive isotopes across exoplanetary systems inferred from polluted white dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1709/6612733

Inward and outward migration of massive planets: moving towards a stalling radius
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1700/6612739

The ET mission to search for Earth 2.0s
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675822000674

A Comparison of EXOTIC and PyRaf in Analyzing Exoplanet Transits
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361359744_A_Comparison_of_EXOTIC_and_PyRaf_in_Analyzing_Exoplanet_Transits

Laboratory Demonstration of Real-Time Focal Plane Wavefront Control of Residual Atmospheric Speckles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08986

Transmission spectroscopy of MASCARA-1b with ESPRESSO: Challenges of overlapping orbital and Doppler tracks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09443

Exoplanet atmosphere retrievals in 3D using phase curve data with ARCiS: application to WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09738

Earth through the looking glass: how frequently are we detected by other civilisations through photometric microlensing?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09820

A Temperature Trend for Clouds and Hazes in Exoplanets Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09934

A detailed analysis of the Gl 486 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09990

Theory of Radiation Pressure on a Diffractive Solar Sail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10052

June 20, 2022 Updates

Accurate Modeling of Lyα Profiles and their Impact on Photolysis of Terrestrial Planet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05147

Phot0, a plausible primeval pigment on Earth and rocky exoplanets
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/cp/d2cp01703b/unauth

Improving Detection of Gravitational-wave Microlensing Using Repeated Signals Induced by Strong Lensing
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6dea

No Detection of Sodium in the Atmosphere of the Warm Neptune HD 106315c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac7957

Dust Accretion onto Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac625e

Towards a Classification Scheme for the Rocky Planets based on Equilibrium Thermodynamic Considerations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1665/6609936?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Could the "Wow" signal have originated from a stochastic repeating beacon?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08374

Transit Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) VIII: a Pleiades-age association harboring two transiting planetary systems from Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08383

Inward and outward migration of massive planets: moving towards a stalling radius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08389

A halo of trapped interstellar matter surrounding the solar system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08535

Resonance capture and long-term evolution of planets in binary star systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08806

June 17, 2022 Updates

An Integrative Analysis of the Rich Planetary System of the Nearby Star e Eridani: Ideal Targets for Exoplanet Imaging and Biosignature Searches
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6f58

EOS-ESTM: A flexible climate model for habitable exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1642/6609498?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FAST…
https://theconversation.com/did-a-giant-radio-telescope-in-china-just-discover-aliens-not-so-fast-185165

June 16, 2022 updates

The strong suppression of Galactic cosmic rays reaching AU Mic b, c and Prox Cen b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1624/6608871

EXOMOL photodissociation cross sections I: HCl and HF
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1634/6608873

CHES: An astrometry mission searching for nearby habitable planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675822000662

Atmospheric Overturning Circulation on Dry, Tidally-locked Rocky Planets is Mainly Driven by Radiative Cooling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07249

Characterizing and Mitigating the Impact of Telluric Absorption in Precise Radial Velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07287

Detailed abundances of the wide pairs of stars with and without planets: the binary systems 16 Cyg and HD 219542
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07463

Detailed stellar activity analysis and modelling of GJ 832: Reassessment of the putative habitable zone planet GJ 832c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07552

TOI-3714 b and TOI-3629 b: Two gas giants transiting M dwarfs confirmed with HPF and NEID
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09963