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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November 24, 2021 updates

Prototype SETI Hardware Gets First Data From VLA
https://public.nrao.edu/news/seti-hardware-first-data/

Alleviating the transit timing variation bias in transit surveys – I. RIVERS: Method and detection of a pair of resonant super-Earths around Kepler-1705
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/11/aa41471-21/aa41471-21.html

One of Everything: The Breakthrough Listen Exotica Catalog
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac168a

TOI-2109b: An Ultrahot Gas Giant on a 16 hr Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12074

Panoramic SETI: Overall focal plane electronics and timing and network protocols
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11476

Analysis of the Most Precise Light Curves of HAT-P-36 Detrended From Spot Signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11531

All along the line of sight: a closer look at opening angles and absorption regions in the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11830

November 23, 2021 updates

NASA Provides Update on Webb Telescope Launch
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/11/22/nasa-provides-update-on-webb-telescope-launch/

False biosignatures on Mars: anticipating ambiguity
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/jgs/article/doi/10.1144/jgs2021-050/609631

Terraforming Mars (Astrobiology Perspectives on Life in the Universe)
http://www.scrivenerpublishing.com/cart/title.php?id=637

Scaling K2. IV. A Uniform Planet Sample for Campaigns 1–8 and 10–18
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2309

TOI-2109: An Ultrahot Gas Giant on a 16 hr Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac26bd

Follow-up Photometry in Another Band Helps to Reduce Kepler’s False-positive Rates
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2504

Internal-Current Lorentz-Force Heating of Astrophysical Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10738

Measuring microlensing parallax via simultaneous observations from Chinese Space Station Telescope and Roman Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11002

Panoramic SETI: on-sky results from prototype telescopes and instrumental design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11080

Hot Jupiters accreting onto their parent stars: effects on the stellar activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11110

Longitudinally asymmetric stratospheric oscillation on a tidally locked exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11281

p-winds: an open-source Python code to model planetary winds and upper atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11370

November 22, 2021 Updates

Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets – ERRATUM
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/detection-of-preindustrial-societies-on-exoplanets-erratum/E3B1C3CF9641609E909FCCE52C026F7E

Game Theory in Space: The Equilibrium State of The Universe and Its
Implications in Space Law
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c79f25151f4d4725a651548/t/612fd85d2aa7eb15e71dce9d/1630525533148/Game+Theory+in+Space_+The+Equilibrium+State+of+The+Universe+and+Its+Implications+in+Space+Law.pdf

Who Will Rise To Fritz Zwicky’S Challenge?
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/62/6/6.34/6428170

Color Dependence of Planetary Transit Depths due to Large Starspots and Dust Clouds: Application to PTFO 8-8695
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac391d

Navigation evaluation for fast interstellar object flybys
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521006081

An Atomic Spectral Survey of WASP-76b: Resolving Chemical Gradients and Asymmetries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09916

ExoMiner: A Highly Accurate and Explainable Deep Learning Classifier to Mine Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10009

Onboard Dynamic Image Exposure Control for the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10322

Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanets III
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10350

No Transits of Proxima Centauri Planets in High-Cadence TESS Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.10702

November 19, 2021 updates

The Onset of a Globally Ice-covered State for a Land Planet
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE006975

Coronal Mass Ejections and Exoplanets: A Numerical Perspective
hhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09704

Exoplanetary Interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09357

Stellar rotation and its connection to the evolution of hydrogen-dominated atmospheres of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09653

A highly mutually-inclined, compact warm-Jupiter system KOI-984 ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09668

Detecting the proposed CH4-CO2 biosignature pair with the James Webb Space Telescope: TRAPPIST-1e and the effect of cloud/haze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09685

Destination exoplanet: Habitability conditions influenced bystellar winds properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09707

November 18, 2021 updates

Nii: a Bayesian orbit retrieval code applied to differential astrometry
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3317/6430178

Secular chaos in white-dwarf planetary systems: origins of metal pollution and short-period planetary companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08716

The HD 137496 system: A dense, hot super-Mercury and a cold Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08764

Planets or asteroids? A geochemical method to constrain the masses of White Dwarf pollutants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08779

Analysis of Early Science observations with the CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) using pycheops
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08828

Search for Exoplanets around Northern Circumpolar Stars V. Three likely planetary companions to the giant stars HD 19615, HD 150010, and HD 174205
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08899

KMT-2018-BLG-1988Lb: microlensing super-Earth orbiting a low-mass disk dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08955

New results on orbital resonances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09289