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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December 28, 2021 updates

About Teaching Students Materials Related to Deep Space Exploration
https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=47231961

Looking for Rings and Tides in Transiting Exoplanets
https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/138548

TOI 560 : Two Transiting Planets Orbiting a K Dwarf Validated with iSHELL, PFS and HIRES RVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13448

Ellipsoidal equilibrium figure and Cassini states of rotating planets and satellites deformed by a tidal potential in the spatial case
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13767

December 24, 2021 updates

Characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres through a model-unbiased spectral survey methodology
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa40494-21/aa40494-21.html

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://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac27b2

The origin of the high metallicity of close-in giant exoplanets II The nature of the sweet spot for accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12623

December 23, 2021 updates

A rich population of free-floating planets in the Upper Scorpius young stellar association
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01513-x

High-resolution detection of neutral oxygen and non-LTE effects in the atmosphere of KELT-9b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01544-4

A Mid-infrared Study of Directly Imaged Planetary-mass Companions Using Archival Spitzer/IRAC Images
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3745

Exploring the Effects of Active Magnetic Drag in a Gener\al Circulation Model of the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-76b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3746

Planet interactions at a young age
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20210097

Analytical Modelling of Exoplanet Transit Specroscopy with Dimensional Analysis and Symbolic Regression
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11600

Semi-Transparent Shear Turbulence in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12127