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 10, 2022 updates

China is on the hunt for ‘Earth 2.0’ with proposed space telescope
https://www.space.com/china-earth-like-exoplanet-telescope

Traversable wormholes with like-Casimir complexity supported with arbitrarily small amount of exotic matter
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10389-8

Exploring Ocean Circulation on Icy Moons Heated From Below
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE007025

A scaled-up planetary system around a supernova progenitor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02279

Results from The COPAINS Pilot Survey: Four new brown dwarfs and a high companion detection rate for accelerating stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac1250/6583003

Earliest photic zone niches probed by ancestral microbial rhodopsins
https://academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/molbev/msac100/6582242

Scaling K2. V. Statistical Validation of 60 New Exoplanets From K2 Campaigns 2–18
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5c4c

Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space? Potential, Risks, and Norms for Using Lasers in Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964622000157

SETI From the Perspective of Intercivilizational Politics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964622000169

Analysis of circular gratings as image plane coronagraph filters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030401822003017

Interstellar planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04277

Five thousand exoplanets at the NASA Exoplanet Archive
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01661-8

Bayesian Characterisation of Circumbinary Exoplanets with LISA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03461

Giant Planets from the Inside-Out
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04100

May 9, 2022 Updates

Brave new worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407922008119

Activity and Rotation of Nearby Field M Dwarfs in the TESS Southern Continuous Viewing Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac6110

Deep two-phase, hemispherical magma oceans on lava planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02864

Moderately High Obliquity Promotes Biospheric Oxygenation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02874

Searching for broadband pulsed beacons from 1883 stars using neural networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02964

Classifying Kepler light curves for 12,000 A and F stars using supervised feature-based machine learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03020

May 6, 2022 updates

Hybrid space ship design for interstellar travel with solar sail, nuclear propulsion and mechanism for capture of interstellar hydrogen
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360411561_Hybrid_space_ship_design_for_interstellar_travel_with_solar_sail_nuclear_propulsion_and_mechanism_for_capture_of_interstellar_hydrogen

Capture of interstellar objects – II. By the Solar system
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360306518_Capture_of_interstellar_objects_-_II_By_the_Solar_system

Extreme Habitable Environments – A Bridge between Astrophysics and Astrobiology
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9780429289590/extreme-habitable-environments-madhu-kashyap-jagadeesh-usha-shekhar

The Discovery of a Planetary Companion Interior to Hot Jupiter WASP-132 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02501

Relative Habitability of Exoplanet Systems with Two Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02777

May 5, 2022 updates

Longitudinal MRI-visible perivascular space (PVS) changes with long-duration spaceflight
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11593-y

Can Carbon Fractionation Provide Evidence for Aerial Biospheres in the Atmospheres of Temperate Sub-Neptunes?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac625f

TRAPPIST-1h as an Exo-Titan. I. The Role of Assumptions about Atmospheric Parameters in Understanding an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac59bb

Mutual Inclination of Ultra-short-period Planets with Time-varying Stellar J2 Moments
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6024

Characterising Atmospheres of Cloudy Temperate Mini-Neptunes with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01690

Fingering convection in the stably-stratified layers of planetary cores
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01761

TOI-2046b, TOI-1181b and TOI-1516b, three new hot Jupiters from \textit{TESS}: planets orbiting a young star, a subgiant and a normal star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01860

May 4, 2022 updates

Dayside Fe i Emission, Day–Night Brightness Contrast and Phase Offset of the Exoplanet WASP-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac5f4d

Biological Homochirality and the Search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01193

Global 3D simulation of the upper atmosphere of HD189733b and absorption in metastable HeI and Lyα lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01341

A survey of sodium absorption in ten giant exoplanets with high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01623

Radio masers on WX UMa: hints of a Neptune-sized planet, or magnetospheric reconnection?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01661

The Directly-Imaged Exoplanet Host Star 51 Eridani is a Gamma Doradus Pulsator
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01103