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 22, 2021 updates

LaserSETI Installs 2nd Observatory at Haleakala Observatory
https://www.seti.org/press-release/laserseti-installs-2nd-observatory-haleakala-observatory

The harsh environment where exoplanets live
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20210099

Atmospheric dynamics of temperate sub-Neptunes. Part I: dry dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11108

The GAPS Programme at TNG. XXXII. The revealing non-detection of metastable HeI in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-80b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11179

The Mantis Network I: A standard grid of templates and masks for cross-correlation analyses of ultra-hot Jupiter transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11380

Towards a Classification Scheme for the Rocky Planets based on Equilibrium Thermodynamic Considerations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11404

December 21, 2021 updates

Software to Determine the Sizes and Orbital Inclinations of Planets from the Transit Observation Data
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772921120015

Rotation Period Detection for Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac36ce

On spectroscopic phase-curve retrievals: H2 dissociation and thermal inversion in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09973

An Accurate 3D Analytic Model for Exoplanetary Photometry, Radial Velocity, and Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10132

Physical Properties and Impact Parameter Variations of Kepler Planets from Analytic Light Curve Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10144

Silicon in the dayside atmospheres of two ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10461

Orbital Period Refinement of CoRoT Planets with TESS Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10535

December 20, 2021 Updates

Predicting the water content of interstellar objects from galactic star formation histories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05773

Estimating fundamental parameters of nearby M dwarfs from SPIRou spectra
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3679/6468761?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Characterizing the WASP-4 system with TESS and radial velocity data: Constraints on the cause of the hot Jupiter’s changing orbit and evidence of an outer planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09621

Localizing flares to understand stellar magnetic fields and space weather in exo-systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09676

December 17, 2021 updates

Star Clusters, Planets, Asteroids and Comets in the Light of Big Data
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3036/paper16.pdf

Signatures of strong magnetization and a metal-poor atmosphere for a Neptune-sized exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01505-x

Identify Light-curve Signals with Deep Learning Based Object Detection Algorithm. I. Transit Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3482

Characterization of an Instrument Model for Exoplanet Transit Spectrum Estimation through Wide-scale Analysis on HST Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac341a

On Atmospheric Retrievals of Exoplanets with Inhomogeneous Terminators
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09125

Spectral analysis of cool white dwarfs accreting from planetary systems: from the UV to the optical
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.08887

Analysis of the public HARPS/ESO spectroscopic archive — Jupiter-like planets around HD 103891 and HD 105779
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.09029