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 12, 2022 updates

Pandora mission to study stars and exoplanets continues toward flight
https://www.llnl.gov/news/pandora-mission-study-stars-and-exoplanets-continues-toward-flight

A pair of Sub-Neptunes transiting the bright K-dwarf TOI-1064 characterised with CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03570

The chaotic history of the retrograde multi-planet system in K2-290A driven by distant stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03586

Tidal erasure of stellar obliquities constrains the timing of hot Jupiter formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03653

FIESTA II. Disentangling stellar and instrumental variability from exoplanetary Doppler shifts in Fourier domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03780

The intrinsic multiplicity distribution of exoplanets revealed from the radial velocity method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03782

Relative abundance constraints from high-resolution optical transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b, and a fast model-filtering technique for accelerating retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04025

January 11, 2022 updates

Designing a Plasma Flux Compression Generator for Pulsed Nuclear Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B38434

Detection of the tidal deformation of WASP-103b at 3 σ with CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/01/aa42196-21/aa42196-21.html

Extreme-ultraviolet- and X-Ray-driven Photochemistry of Gaseous Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac3f3c

Cometary Activity beyond the Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac323b

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. I.: A Noninflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac38a1

Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet Host Star HR 8799
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac3bb5

Resolving the Multiplicity of Exoplanet Host Stars in Gemini/NIRI Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac488e

ExoVista: A Suite of Planetary System Models for Exoplanet Studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02652

An Energy Balance Model for Rapidly and Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02685

The First Near-Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HIP 41378 f, a Low-Mass Temperate Jovian World in a Multi-Planet System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02686

Unsupervised Machine Learning for Exploratory Data Analysis of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02696

A Framework for Characterizing Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets with Circumplanetary Rings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02794

MAGRATHEA: an open-source spherical symmetric planet interior structure code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03094

AURA-3D: A Three-dimensional Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03532

Radiation Effects from ISM and Cosmic Ray Particle Impacts on Relativistic Spacecraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02721

January 10, 2022 Updates

Multimessenger SETI and Techniques
https://iopscience.iop.org/book/978-0-7503-2344-4/chapter/bk978-0-7503-2344-4ch11

The biomedical implications of living off-Earth
https://probiologists.com/Uploads/Articles/4_637762685991460487.pdf

Erratum: Tidal migration of hot Jupiters: introducing the impact of gravity wave dissipation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/510/2/3111/6500913?searchresult=1

Strong H2O and CO emission features in the spectrum of KELT-20b driven by stellar UV irradiation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02261

The transiting planetary system WASP-86/KELT-12: TESS provides the casting vote
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02515

January 7, 2022 updates

Ribozyme Mutagenic Evolution: Mechanisms of Survival
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-021-09617-0

Cluster Difference Imaging Photometric Survey. II. TOI 837: A Young Validated Planet in IC 2602
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb9ab

Unveiling wide-orbit companions to K-type stars in Sco-Cen with Gaia EDR3
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/01/aa39917-20/aa39917-20.html

The Perkins INfrared Exosatellite Survey (PINES) I. Survey Overview, Reduction Pipeline, and Early Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01794

Estimating photoevaporative mass loss of exoplanets with PLATYPOS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01977

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://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02086

New Perspectives on the Exoplanet Radius Gap from a Mathematica Tool and Visualized Water Equation of State
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02125

On the parameter refinement of inflated exoplanets with large radius uncertainty based on TESS observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02133

An algorithm for coalescence of classical objects and formation of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02195

January 6, 2022 updates

Supernova Rates and Burial of Organic Matter
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096376

CORALIE radial-velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES). I. Sample definition and first results: Three new planets orbiting giant stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01528

Coralie radial velocity search for companions around evolved stars (CASCADES) II. Seismic masses for three red giants orbited by long-period massive planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01530

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://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01553

Do we need to consider electron kinetic effects to properly model a planetary magnetosphere: the case of Mercury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01653