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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April 4, 2022 Updates

The Path to Transformational Space Exploration: Volume 2: Applications of Directed Energy
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/11918-vol2

Gravity darkening and tidally perturbed stellar pulsation in the misaligned exoplanet system WASP-33
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa43299-22/aa43299-22.html

Phosphorus and Life on a Water World
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL097346

The struggle to define a planet sees some alien worlds kicked off the list
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922005553

N-body Interactions will be Detectable in the HR-8799 System within 5 yr with VLTI-GRAVITY
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac61d8

Kepler-1656b’s Extreme Eccentricity: Signature of a Gentle Giant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00019

April 1, 2022 updates

Research programmes arising from ‘Oumuamua considered as an alien craft
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/research-programmes-arising-from-oumuamua-considered-as-an-alien-craft/2F0CD6A0EF109B7445A11CB56035D014

MOVES V. Modelling star-planet magnetic interactions of HD 189733
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac778/6562088

Is the orbital distribution of multi-planet systems influenced by pure 3-planet resonances?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac876/6561620

KMT-2021-BLG-1077L: The fifth confirmed multiplanetary system detected by microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16734

Kepler K2 Campaign 9: II. First space-based discovery of an exoplanet using microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16959

Atmosphere Loss in Oblique Super-Earth Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17064

A Multi-Planet System’s Sole Super-Puff: Exploring Allowable Physical Parameters for the Cold Super-Puff HIP 41378 f
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17180

March 29, 2022 updates

Secondary tethers
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522001230

Will Aliens be Monsters and Should We Be Scared?
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Kennedy-30/publication/359221338_Will_Aliens_be_Monsters_and_Should_We_Be_Scared/

Extreme energetic particle events by superflare-asssociated CMEs from solar-like stars
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi9743

Black Mirror: The impact of rotational broadening on the search for reflected light from 51 Pegasi b with high resolution spectroscopy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/03/aa42314-21/aa42314-21.html

The pepsi exoplanet transit survey (PETS) I: Investigating the presence of a silicate atmosphere on the super-earth 55 Cnc e
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac810/6555041

Meta-modelling the climate of dry tide locked rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14929

Towards Stable Interstellar Flight: Levitation of a Laser-Propelled Sailcraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.14699