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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May 17, 2022 updates

AbSciCon 2022: From Stars to Cells
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/abscicon-2022-open-public-events/

Nexus for Exoplanet System Science
https://nexss.info/

Network for Life Detection
https://www.nfold.org/

Request for Information: Early Cells to Multicellularity
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/request-for-information-early-cells-to-multicellularity/

Searching for the origin of the Ehrenreich effect in ultra-hot Jupiters – Evidence for strong C/O gradients in the atmosphere of WASP-76 b?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/05/aa42591-21/aa42591-21.html

HD 83443c: A Highly Eccentric Giant Planet on a 22 yr Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6589

Water UV-shielding in the Terrestrial Planet-forming Zone: Implications from Water Emission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac66ce

Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06899

To Sample or Not To Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalising Flows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07037

Transfer of Rocks between Planetary Systems: Panspermia Revisited
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07799

The Visual Survey Group: A Decade of Hunting Exoplanets and Unusual Stellar Events with Space-Based Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07832

Patchy nightside clouds on ultra-hot Jupiters: General Circulation Model simulations with radiatively active cloud tracers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07834

Five key exoplanet questions answered via the analysis of 25 hot Jupiter atmospheres in eclipse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.11729

May 16, 2022 updates

Nitriles in Prebiotic Chemistry and Astrobiology
https://research.chalmers.se/publication/529433

The Planetary Vaporization Event Hypothesis: Supercharging Earth’s Geothermal Core, Identifying Side Effects Blast Patterns, and Inferring how to Find Earth-Like Planets or Identifying Super Charged Geothermal Cores and their Byproduct Blast Patterns
https://www.scipress.com/ILCPA.87.1

Can Carbon Fractionation Provide Evidence for Aerial Biospheres in the Atmospheres of Temperate Sub-Neptunes?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06284

Simulations of astrometric planet detection in alpha Centauri by intensity interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06517

The Effect of Ocean Salinity on Climate and Its Implications for Earth’s Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06785

May 13, 2022 updates

Astrospheres of Planet-Hosting Cool Stars and Beyond ⋅ When Modeling Meets Observations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-022-00894-3

Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0029

Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05696

Another Shipment of Six Short-Period Giant Planets from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05709

An Integrative Analysis of the Rich Planetary System of the Nearby Star e Eridani: Ideal Targets For Exoplanet Imaging and Biosignature Searches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06250

May 12, 2022 updates

Split differential transit photometry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-022-04075-0

A prebiotically plausible scenario of an RNA–peptide world
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04676-3

A possible path towards encoded protein synthesis on ancient Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01256-3

RRx-001 and the “Right Stuff”: Protection and Treatment in Outer Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552422000293

Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966842X22000920

Exoplanet detection with Genesis
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S2251171722500118

CHES: a space-borne astrometric mission for the detection of habitable planets of the nearby solar-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05645

Ocean signatures in the total flux and polarization spectra of Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05669

May 11, 2022 updates

ssessing the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite’s Yield of Rocky Planets Around Nearby M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac64a0

A New Analysis of Eight Spitzer Phase Curves and Hot Jupiter Population Trends: Qatar-1b, Qatar-2b, WASP-52b, WASP-34b, and WASP-140b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6261

Project Lyra: Another Possible Trajectory to 1I/’Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04693

Polarimetric investigation of selected cloud compositions in exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04815

A dearth of close-in planets around rapidly rotating stars or a dearth of data?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04893

The Ariel Target List: The Impact of TESS and the Potential for Characterising Multiple Planets Within a System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05073