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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March 22, 2022 updates

Fully compressible convection for planetary mantles
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gji/ggac102/6551894

A numerical inversion of msin i exoplanet distribution: the sub-Saturn desert is more depleted than observed and hint of a Uranus mass gap
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac777/6552141

Can Radio Emission Escape from the Magnetosphere of υ andromedae b – a new method to constrain the minimum mass of hot jupiters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac767/6551352

Reassessing the Evidence for Time Variability in the Atmosphere of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7 bf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac53a8

Global 3D Simulation of the Upper Atmosphere of HD189733b and Absorption in Metastable He i and Lyα Lines
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac441d

Symbol repetition in interstellar communications: methods and observations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358898284_Symbol_repetition_in_interstellar_communications_methods_and_observations

Symbol quantization in interstellar communications: methods and observations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359368783_Symbol_quantization_in_interstellar_communications_methods_and_observations

Exoplanet flux dataset for over 1600 labelled exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359391268_Exoplanet_flux_dataset_for_over_1600_labelled_exoplanets

Simulating the Study of Exoplanets Using Photonic Spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10153

SETI in 2021
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11172

Day-side Fe I Emission, Day-Night Brightness Contrast and Phase Offset of the Exoplanet WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11188

SETI, evolution and human history merged into a mathematical model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10116

Evo-SETI: A Mathematical Tool for Cladistics, Evolution, and SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10189

Weak Seasonality on Temperate Exoplanets Around Low-mass Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10510

Jet Streams and Tracer Mixing in the Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs and Isolated Young Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10523

Transit Light-curves for Exomoons: Analytical Formalisms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10881

The Contribution of M-Dwarf Flares to the Thermal Escape of Potentially Habitable Planet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10127

March 21, 2022 Updates

Orbiting laser configuration and sky coverage: coherent reference for Breakthrough Starshot ground-based laser array
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-8/issue-1/017004/Orbiting-laser-configuration-and-sky-coverage–coherent-reference-for/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.017004.short

Minimal differential lateral acceleration configurations for starshade
stationkeeping in exoplanet direct imaging
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-8/issue-01/017003/Minimal-differential-lateral-acceleration-configurations-for-starshade-stationkeeping-in-exoplanet/10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.017003.full

Relativistic Rocket Equation
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-54352-5_24

The IAU Working Definition of an Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09520

Planet-Disk Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09595

Gravity darkening and tidally perturbed stellar pulsation in the misaligned exoplanet system WASP-33
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09618

Setigen: Simulating Radio Technosignatures for SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09668

Architectures of Compact Multi-planet Systems: Diversity and Uniformity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10076

MArch 16, 2022 updates

The TESS Triple-9 Catalog: 999 uniformly-vetted exoplanet candidates
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac652/6548905

Deceleration of Exoplanet Missions Utilizing Scarce Antimatter
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522001163

The Solar Shield Concept: Current Status and Future Possibilities
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576522000777

Mineral Snowflakes on Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs: Coagulation and Fragmentation of Cloud Particles with HyLandS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07461

Shallow Transits – Deep Learning II: Identify Individual Exoplanetary Transits in Red Noise using Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08017