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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February 18, 2022 updates

Studying the next interstellar interloper with Webb
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/studying-the-next-interstellar-interloper-with-webb

Stability of planetary systems within the S-star cluster: the Solar system analogues
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac462/6530663

HD 207897 b: A dense sub-Neptune transiting a nearby and bright K-type star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/02/aa41429-21/aa41429-21.html

Testing whether a signal is strictly periodic – Application to disentangling planets and stellar activity in radial velocities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa41197-21/aa41197-21.html

Reassessing the Evidence for Time Variability in the Atmosphere of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08279

A numerical criterion evaluating the robustness of planetary architectures; applications to the υ Andromedæ system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08616

Helium absorption in exoplanet atmospheres is connected to stellar coronal abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08838

February 17, 2022 updates

NEID Rossiter–McLaughlin Measurement of TOI-1268b: A Young Warm Saturn Aligned with Its Cool Host Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac4da0

Observations of PAHs in the atmospheres of discs and exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.08252

Simulating the Space Weather in the AU Mic System: Stellar Winds and Extreme Coronal Mass Ejections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07949

Revisiting the Full Sets of Orbital Parameters for the XO-3 System: No evidence for Temporal Variation of the Spin-Orbit Angle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07723

February 16, 2022 updates

Advances in 3D Bioprinting
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772665722000010

Taking the Gaia hypothesis at face value
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1476945X22000034

Modeling Stellar Jitter for the Detection of Earth-Mass Exoplanets via Precision Radial Velocity Measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07087

Disentangling the parameter space: The role of planet multiplicity in triggering dynamical instabilities on planetary systems around white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07159

On possible life-dispersal patterns beyond the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07347

Nonlinear tidal excitation of super-harmonic gravity waves in main-sequence stars in binary and exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07450

February 15, 2022 updates

Partition sums for non-local thermodynamic equilibrium conditions for nine molecules of importance in planetary atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103522000689

The Habitable Zones of Rapidly Rotating Main Sequence A/F Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06918

A new estimation of astrometric exoplanet detection limits in the habitable zone around nearby stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06301

Detectability of Chlorofluorocarbons in the Atmospheres of Habitable M-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05858

Habitable planet formation around low-mass stars: Rapid accretion, rapid debris removal and the essential contribution of external giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05909

Orbital Evolution of Close-in Super-Earths Driven by Atmospheric Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06585

Dynamical architecture of the HD 107148 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.06702

February 14, 2022 Updates

A new configuration for high power propulsion plasmas driven by ion cyclotron resonance energization
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0073439

PyExoRaMa: An Interactive Tool in Python to Investigate the Radius–Mass Diagram for Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac52f2

Photons Received: Webb Sees Its First Star – 18 Times
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/02/11/photons-received-webb-sees-its-first-star-18-times/

Relentless and Complex Transits from a Planetesimal Debris Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06183

Voyager 3: A Concept Mission to Interstellar Medium
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A35075

Transit Timing Variations for AU Microscopii b & c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05813