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 19, 2022 updates

Mitigating stellar activity jitter with different line lists for least-squares deconvolution – Analysis of a parametric and a randomised line selection
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/01/aa41812-21/aa41812-21.html

Obstacles from interstellar matter and distortion for warp drive travel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06371

A Material-based Panspermia Hypothesis: The Potential of Polymer Gels and Membraneless Droplets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06732

Why hot Jupiters can be large but not too large
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.07008

Blue marble, stagnant lid: Could dynamic topography avert a waterworld?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05636

CaRM: Exploring the chromatic Rossiter-McLaughlin effect. The cases of HD 189733b and WASP-127b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06531

Building Terrestrial Planets: Why results of perfect-merging simulations are not quantitatively reliable approximations to accurate modeling of terrestrial planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06702

January 18, 2022 updates

On the synergy between Ariel and ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09824-7

CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES) – I. Sample definition and first results: Three new planets orbiting giant stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa40078-20/aa40078-20.html

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://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa40080-20/aa40080-20.html

The strange case of Na I in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b – Reconciling low- and high-resolution spectroscopic observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa41642-21/aa41642-21.html

Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life and Beyond: An Interview with Douglas Lin
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwac008/6509500

Effects of charge exchange on the evaporative wind of HD 209458b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac112/6509496

Running the gauntlet – survival of small circumbinary planets migrating through destabilising resonances
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac090/6509505

January 17, 2022 updates

VizieR Online Data Catalog: Warm Jupiters in TESS FFIs 1st year (2018-2019 July)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021yCat..22550006D/abstract

Invited review: Infrared spectroscopy of planetary atmospheres: Searching for insights into their past and present histories
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522000070

First TESS light curve solution and orbital period analysis of V567 And
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621001676

Chemical Differentiation of Planets: A Core Issue
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac300b

Discovery Alert: Water Vapor Detected on a ‘Super Neptune’
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1698/discovery-alert-water-vapor-detected-on-a-super-neptune/

January 14, 2022 updates

Out of Thin Air? Astrobiology and Atmospheric Chemotrophy
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0066

Molten iron in Earth-like exoplanet cores
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn2051

Measuring the melting curve of iron at super-Earth core conditions
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm1472

An exomoon survey of 70 cool giant exoplanets and the new candidate Kepler-1708 b-i
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01539-1

AAS 239 Press Conference: Exoplanets & Their Atmospheres
https://youtu.be/RE7O08zK4gU

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): VI. Ideal kernel-nulling array architectures for a space-based mid-infrared nulling interferometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04891

Gaia as Solaris: An Alternative Default Evolutionary Trajectory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04956

Radio bridges of the future between Solar system and the nearest 50 stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04969

January 13, 2022 updates

The TESS-Keck Survey. VIII. Confirmation of a Transiting Giant Planet on an Eccentric 261 Day Orbit with the Automated Planet Finder Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac415b

Evolutionary and Observational Consequences of Dyson Sphere Feedback
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3421

TESS Giants Transiting Giants II: The hottest Jupiters orbiting evolved stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04140

Variable and super-sonic winds in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04154

A Mirage or an Oasis? Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the Warm Neptune TOI-674 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04197

Project Lyra: A Mission to 1I/’Oumuamua without Solar Oberth Manoeuvre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04240

Characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres through a model-unbiased spectral survey methodology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04285

The importance of silicate vapor in determining the structure, radii, and envelope mass fractions of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04299

OGLE-2016-BLG-1093Lb: A Sub-Jupiter-mass Spitzer Planet Located in Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04312

The impact of faculae on the radius determination of exoplanets: The case of the M-star GJ1214
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04413

Identifying interesting planetary systems for future X-ray observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04508

The atmosphere and architecture of WASP-189 b probed by its CHEOPS phase curve
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04518