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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January 11, 2022 updates

Designing a Plasma Flux Compression Generator for Pulsed Nuclear Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B38434

Detection of the tidal deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/01/aa42196-21/aa42196-21.html

Extreme-ultraviolet- and X-Ray-driven Photochemistry of Gaseous Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac3f3c

Cometary Activity beyond the Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac323b

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. I.: A Noninflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac38a1

Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet Host Star HR 8799
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3bb5

Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac488e

ExoVista: A Suite of Planetary System Models for Exoplanet Studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02652

An Energy Balance Model for Rapidly and Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02685

The First Near-Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HIP 41378 f, a Low-Mass Temperate Jovian World in a Multi-Planet System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02686

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Exploratory Data Analysis of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02696

A Framework for Characterizing Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets with Circumplanetary Rings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02794

MAGRATHEA: an open-source spherical symmetric planet interior structure code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03094

AURA-3D: A Three-dimensional Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03532

Radiation Effects from ISM and Cosmic Ray Particle Impacts on Relativistic Spacecraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02721

January 10, 2022 Updates

Multimessenger SETI and Techniques
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-2344-4/chapter/bk978-0-7503-2344-4ch11

The biomedical implications of living off-Earth
https://probiologists.com/Uploads/Articles/4_637762685991460487.pdf

Erratum: Tidal migration of hot Jupiters: introducing the impact of gravity wave dissipation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/510/2/3111/6500913?searchresult=1

Strong H2O and CO emission features in the spectrum of KELT-20b driven by stellar UV irradiation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02261

The transiting planetary system WASP-86/KELT-12: TESS provides the casting vote
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02515

January 7, 2022 updates

Ribozyme Mutagenic Evolution: Mechanisms of Survival
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-021-09617-0

Cluster Difference Imaging Photometric Survey. II. TOI 837: A Young Validated Planet in IC 2602
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb9ab

Unveiling wide-orbit companions to K-type stars in Sco-Cen with Gaia EDR3
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa39917-20/aa39917-20.html

The Perkins INfrared Exosatellite Survey (PINES) I. Survey Overview, Reduction Pipeline, and Early Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01794

Estimating photoevaporative mass loss of exoplanets with PLATYPOS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01977

Why is it So Hot in Here? Exploring Population Trends in Spitzer Thermal Emission Observations of Hot Jupiters using Planet-Specific Self-Consistent Atmospheric Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02086

New Perspectives on the Exoplanet Radius Gap from a Mathematica Tool and Visualized Water Equation of State
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02125

On the parameter refinement of inflated exoplanets with large radius uncertainty based on TESS observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02133

An algorithm for coalescence of classical objects and formation of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02195

January 6, 2022 updates

Supernova Rates and Burial of Organic Matter
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096376

CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES). I. Sample definition and first results: Three new planets orbiting giant stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01528

Coralie radial velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES) II. Seismic masses for three red giants orbited by long-period massive planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01530

Coralie radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES) III. A new Jupiter host-star: in-depth analysis of HD 29399 using TESS data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01553

Do we need to consider electron kinetic effects to properly model a planetary magnetosphere: the case of Mercury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01653

January 5, 2022 updates

Spaceflight Virology: What Do We Know about Viral Threats in the Spaceflight Environment?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0009

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. II. Six New q < 2 × 10−4 Mass-ratio Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac38ad

Mapping the Surface of Partially Cloudy Exoplanets is Hard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00825

Towards RNA life on Early Earth: From atmospheric HCN to biomolecule production in warm little ponds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00829

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Technosignature Search of Transiting TESS Targets of Interest
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00918