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 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

November 17, 2021 updates

The Worlds Next Door: Looking for Habitable Planets Around Alpha Centauri
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/34

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Primed to Lift the Haze Surrounding Sub-Neptunes
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-primed-to-lift-the-haze-surrounding-sub-neptunes

On the Use of Evidence and Goodness-of-fit Metrics in Exoplanet Atmosphere Interpretation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac3984

Automatically detecting anomalous exoplanet transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08679

Dynamics and habitability of the TESS circumbinary systems TOI-1338 and TIC-172900988
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08235

The tidal quality of the hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.08273

WASP-47: A Hot Jupiter System with Two Additional Planets Discovered by K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02411

November 16, 2021 updates

Developing An Interferometric SETI Capability Using e-MERLIN
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/developing-an-interferometric-seti-capability-using-emerlin(3fa9a27f-9b3d-4b17-8cd6-c519d4f4ab29).html

Exoplanet biosignatures
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/62/6/6.26/6428181

No Sub-Saturn-mass Planet Desert in the CORALIE/HARPS Radial-velocity Sample
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2a2b

A General Origin for Multiplanetary Systems With Significantly Misaligned USP Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac2a32

The Fishback ramjet revisited
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521005804

Stellar rotation and its connection to the evolution of hydrogen-dominated atmospheres of exoplanets
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20210077

Effects of flares on the habitable zones of M dwarfs accessible to TESS planet detections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20210079

Characterization of an Instrument Model for Exoplanet Transit Spectrum Estimation through Wide Scale Analysis on HST Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07214

How does the background atmosphere affect the onset of the runaway greenhouse ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07662

Research Programs Arising from ‘Oumuamua Considered as an Alien Craft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07895

How to create an artificial magnetosphere for Mars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06887