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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August 1, 2022 Updates

Systems Design and Integration of Small Scale Nano and Picosatellites
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202207.0368/v1

The mechanism that drives electrostatic solitary waves to propagate in the Earth’s magnetosphere and solar wind
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ctpp.202200041

The Closest Past Flyby of a Known Star to the Solar System: HD 7977, UCAC4 237-008148 or WISE J072003.20-084651.2?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac842b

Searching for giant planets in the outer Solar System with far-infrared all-sky surveys
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2044/6652122?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Star-Planet Interaction: Wave Structures and Wing-Wing Interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14658

Estimating the potential of ionizing radiation-induced radiolysis for microbial metabolism in terrestrial planets with rarefied atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14675

July 29, 2022 updates

MIRECLE: Science Yield for a Mid-IR Explorer-Class Mission to Study Non-Transiting Rocky Planets Orbiting the Nearest M-Stars Using Planetary Infrared Excess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13727

A Criterion for the Stability of Planets in Chains of Resonances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13833

The HD 93963 A transiting system: A 1.04d super-Earth and a 3.65 d sub-Neptune discovered by TESS and CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13920

Atmosphere of the mini-Neptune transiting the bright M dwarf GJ 3090 can be characterized https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14121

Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy. Part I: Computation of transmission spectra using a 1D, 2D, or 3D atmosphere structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11799

Toward a multidimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy. Part III: Modelling 2D effects in retrievals with TauREx
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14247

July 27, 2022 updates

Project Lyra: A mission to 1I/’Oumuamua without Solar Oberth Manoeuvre https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522003782

Bringing Exoplanets into View
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/s87

Null transit detections of 68 radial velocity exoplanets observed by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12498

Exploring the Dependence of Hot Jupiter Occurrence Rates on Stellar Mass with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12522

Detection of Na and K in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-1b with P200/DBSP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12563

Extended planetary chaotic zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12747

The K2-3 system revisited: testing photoevaporation and core-powered mass loss with three small planets spanning the radius valley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12755

The effects of nonlinearities on tidal flows in the convective envelopes of rotating stars and planets in exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12780

Predicting biosignatures for nutrient limited biospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12961

July 26, 2022 updates

Orbiting Astronomical Satellite for Investigating Stellar Systems (OASIS): A Paradigm Shift in Realizing Large Space Telescopes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361995337_Orbiting_Astronomical_Satellite_for_Investigating_Stellar_Systems_OASIS_A_Paradigm_Shift_in_Realizing_Large_Space_Telescopes

NASA Challenge: Ultralight Starshade Structural Design
https://grabcad.com/challenges/nasa-challenge-ultralight-starshade-structural-design

Photodynamical analysis of the nearly resonant planetary system WASP-148 – Accurate transit-timing variations and mutual orbital inclination
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42964-21/aa42964-21.html

The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXXIII. HARPS-N detects multiple atomic species in emission from the dayside of KELT-20b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42768-21/aa42768-21.html

A novel framework for semi-Bayesian radial velocities through template matching
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa42262-21/aa42262-21.html

Low Spin-Axis Variations of Circumbinary Planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac2071/6649817

Atmospheric Overturning Circulation on Dry, Tidally Locked Rocky Planets Is Mainly Driven by Radiative Cooling
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6d65

Identifying Interstellar Object Impact Craters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac77e9

Bistability of the atmospheric circulation on TRAPPIST-1e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12342

TRAPPIST-1h as an Exo-Titan. I. The Role of Assumptions about Atmospheric Parameters in Understanding an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.12358