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 19, 2022 updates

Interstellar Probe: A Mission to the Heliospheric Boundary and Interstellar Medium to Understand our Home in the Galaxy
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-6802.html

Theoretical Investigation into the Emergence of Microbial Life in Tightly Orbiting Habitable Zones around M Dwarfs
https://osf.io/gc7qb/

Planetary Migration Timescale and Its Influence on Life’s Ability to Occupy a Habitable Zone
https://osf.io/e69zw/

New message to aliens will reflect on Earth in danger of climate crisis
https://www.space.com/climate-change-message-to-aliens

Far side: the moon’s use as a new astronomical site
https://spacenews.com/far-side-the-moons-use-as-a-new-astronomical-site/

Determining the “Biosignature Threshold” for Life Detection on Biotic, Abiotic, or Prebiotic Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0079

Planet Patrol: Vetting Transiting Exoplanet Candidates with Citizen Science
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ac5de0

Engineering an Interstellar Communications Network by Deploying Relay Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08296

Dynamics of co-orbital exoplanets in a first order resonance chain with tidal dissipation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08074

April 18, 2022 Updates

CaRM: Exploring the chromatic Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa42353-21/aa42353-21.html

The plan to challenge aliens to a very slow game of chess
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922006479

Limiting Flux versus Redshift as a Flag of New Physics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac6520

The Refined Transit Ephemeris of TOI-2180 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac64fd

Astrometric Precision Tests on TESS Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ac584a

On the stability of low-mass planets with supercritical hydrospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07451

A possible solution for the faint young Sun paradox: Clues from the exoplanetary data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07515

April 15, 2022 updates

WD 1145+017: Alternative models of the atmosphere, dust clouds, and gas rings
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/04/aa41924-21/aa41924-21.html

Comparison of Two Analytic Energy Balance Models Shows Stable Partial Ice Cover Possible for Any Obliquity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac603d

Photodynamical analysis of the nearly resonant planetary system WASP-148: Accurate transit-timing variations and mutual orbital inclination
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06656

Influence of C/O Ratio on Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Chemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06884

Water UV-shielding in the terrestial planet-forming zone: Implications from water emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07108

Avoiding the Great Filter: Predicting the Timeline for Humanity to Reach Kardashev Type I Civilization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.07070

April 14, 2022 updates

Metabolically diverse primordial microbial communities in Earth’s oldest seafloor-hydrothermal jasper
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm2296

A quarter century of spectroscopic monitoring of the nearby M dwarf Gl 514. A super-Earth on an eccentric orbit moving in and out of the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06376

Low-order wavefront control using a Zernike sensor through Lyot coronagraphs for exoplanet imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06442

Temperature Structures Associated with Different Components of the Atmospheric Circulation on Tidally Locked Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06503

Possible Ribose Synthesis in Carbonaceous Planetesimals
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/12/3/404

April 13, 2022 updates

Astrobiology & Habitable Environments Database Team Conducts Pilot Webinar
https://ahed.nasa.gov/datasets/ad563cce5de360ec03348431ddd2/t7164s

The Refined Transit Ephemeris of TOI-2180 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac64fd

Modeling of Magnetospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone around G-Type Stars
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/8/4/231

Disruption of a Planetary Nitrogen Cycle as Evidence of Extraterrestrial Agriculture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05360

OGLE-2019-BLG-1470LABc: Another Microlensing Giant Planet in a Binary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05606

HD 83443c: A highly eccentric giant planet on a 22-year orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05711

Chemical diversity of the atmospheres and interiors of sub-Neptunes — A case study of GJ 436 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05971