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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October 12, 2021 updates

Nauyaca: a new tool to determine planetary masses and orbital elements through transit timing analysis [EPA]
https://arxiver.moonhats.com/2021/10/11/nauyaca-a-new-tool-to-determine-planetary-masses-and-orbital-elements-through-transit-timing-analysis-epa/

Relativistic Braking and Power Generation through Stellar Magnetic Fields via Eddy Current Forces
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Colin-Warn/publication/354894913_Relativistic_Braking_and_Power_Generation_through_Stellar_Magnetic_Fields_via_Eddy_Current_Forces/links/615322c5154b3227a8b6ea54/Relativistic-Braking-and-Power-Generation-through-Stellar-Magnetic-Fields-via-Eddy-Current-Forces.pdf

The population of M dwarfs observed at low radio frequencies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01483-0

The TESS View of LOFAR Radio-emitting Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac230c

HD 22496 b: The first ESPRESSO stand-alone planet discovery
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa41714-21/aa41714-21.html

Is the orbit of the exoplanet WASP-43b really decaying? TESS and MuSCAT2 observations confirm no detection
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2929/6388393

The Effects of Magnetic Fields on Observational Signatures of Atmospheric Escape in Exoplanets: Double Tail Structures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05200

Enhanced thermal radiation from a tidally heated exomoon with a single hot spot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05353

Climate uncertainties caused by unknown land distribution on habitable M-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04310

The Hubble PanCET program: Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of the Hot Jupiter WASP-74b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04415

October 11, 2021 Updates

Disks in close binary stars – γ-Cephei revisited
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa41248-21/aa41248-21.html

A multiwavelength analysis of the spiral arms in the protoplanetary disk around WaOph 6
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa40783-21/aa40783-21.html

The mass of β Pictoris c from β Pictoris b orbital motion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41889-21/aa41889-21.html

Seeing Earth as another planet
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407921017760

There may be an exoplanet orbiting three stars at once
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407921017838

TOI-3362b: A Proto Hot Jupiter Undergoing High-eccentricity Tidal Migration
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac2600

The statistical properties of protostellar discs and their dependence on metallicity
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2901/6384835?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Mass Transport in a Moist Planetary Climate Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03719

The formation of wide exoKuiper belts from migrating dust traps
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04007

TOI-530b: A giant planet transiting an M dwarf detected by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.04220

October 8, 2021 updates

The key impact of the host star’s rotational history on the evolution of TOI-849b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/10/aa41734-21/aa41734-21.html

Carbon Cycling and Habitability of Massive Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac24aa

The Criterion for Chaos in Three-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02956

TRAPPIST-1: Dynamical analysis of the transit-timing variations and origin of the resonant chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03340

The traditional approximation of rotation for rapidly rotating stars and planets. II. Deformation and differential rotation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03619

October 7, 2021 updates

Observational and Theoretical Studies of Radio Technosignatures and Pulsars
https://www.proquest.com/openview/360b62925791845a8b43d3c861624769/1

Photoevaporation versus core-powered mass-loss: model comparison with the 3D radius gap
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2897/6383001

pyaneti II: A multi-dimensional Gaussian process approach to analysing spectroscopic time-series
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2889/6383008

SOLES I: The Spin–Orbit Alignment of K2-140 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1f8f

Retrieving Exoplanet Atmospheres using Planetary Infrared Excess: Prospects for the Nightside of WASP-43 b and other Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02247

Nebula-Relay Hypothesis: The Chirality of Biological Molecules in Molecular Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02524

October 6, 2021 updates

NASA Scientist Looks to AI, Lensing to Find Masses of Free-Floating Planets
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/scientist-looks-to-ai-lensing-to-find-masses-of-free-floating-planets

Constraining the Orbit and Mass of epsilon Eridani b with Radial Velocities, Hipparcos IAD-Gaia DR2 Astrometry, and Multiepoch Vortex Coronagraphy Upper Limits
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac134a

A Multispecies Pseudoadiabat for Simulating Condensable-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac214c

Measuring titanium isotope ratios in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01908

Retrieving the transmission spectrum of HD 209458b using CHOCOLATE: A new chromatic Doppler tomography technique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02028

Polarized muons and the origin of biological homochirality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01975