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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March 2, 2022 updates

Ultrahigh-pressure disordered eight-coordinated phase of Mg2GeO4: Analogue for super-Earth mantles
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2114424119

Scaling laws in enzyme function reveal a new kind of biochemical universality
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2106655119

CHEOPS geometric albedo of the hot Jupiter HD 209458 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa43082-22/aa43082-22.html

Discovery and mass measurement of the hot, transiting, Earth-sized planet, GJ 3929 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/03/aa42653-21/aa42653-21.html

The First Near-infrared Transmission Spectrum of HIP 41378 f, A Low-mass Temperate Jovian World in a Multiplanet System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac559d

On The Hydrosphere Stability of TESS Targets: Applications to 700 d, 256 b, and 203 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00222

Homogeneous Transit Timing Analyses of Ten Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00299

K2 and Spitzer phase curves of the rocky ultra-short-period planet K2-141 b hint at a tenuous rock vapor atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00370

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Benchmarking the impact of activity in high-precision radial velocity measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00415

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): II. Signal simulation, signal extraction and fundamental exoplanet parameters from single epoch observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00471

A retrieval challenge exercise for the Ariel mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00482

March 1, 2022 updates

The analysis of Siyu Bian ,Yi Wang,Zun Wang and Mian Zhu applied to the Natario-Broeck spacetime.A very interesting approach towards a more realistic interstellar warp drive
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03570472/document

The impact of AGN outflows on the surface habitability of terrestrial planets in the Milky Way
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stac542/6539336

Using birefringent elements and imaging Michelsons for calibration of high precision planet finding spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13421

Doppler-Shifted Alkali D Absorption as Indirect Evidence for Exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13815

February 28, 2022 Updates

Greening the Universe: The Case for Ecocentric Space Expansion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358676509_Greening_the_Universe_The_Case_for_Ecocentric_Space_Expansion

On possible life-dispersal patterns beyond the Earth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/on-possible-lifedispersal-patterns-beyond-the-earth/2096A763F565792F4059D213D95ACDDC

The Detection of Seismicity on Icy Ocean Worlds by Single-Station and Small-Aperture Seismometer Arrays
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EA002065

Constraining giant planet formation with synthetic ALMA images of the Solar System’s natal protoplanetary disk
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa42490-21/aa42490-21.html

Jupiter Observing Velocity Experiment (JOVE): Introduction to Wind Rider Solar Electric Propulsion Demonstrator and Science Objectives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ac4812

The Hubble PanCET program: Emission spectrum of hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12314

Revisiting WASP-47 with ESPRESSO and TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12747

Precise radial velocities of giant stars XVI. Planet occurrence rates from the combined analysis of the Lick, EXPRESS, and PPPS giant star surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.12800

February 25, 2022 updates

MHD study of the planetary magnetospheric response during extreme solar wind conditions: Earth and exoplanet magnetospheres applications
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/03/aa41181-21/aa41181-21.html

Sculpting the circumbinary planet size distribution through resonant interactions with companion planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11719

Detection of C2, CN and CH radicals in the spectrum of the transiting hot Jupiter HAT-P-1b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11803

Influences of internal forcing on atmospheric circulations of irradiated giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11974

Search for planets in hot Jupiter systems with multi-sector TESS photometry. II. Constraints on planetary companions in 12 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11990

Redundant apodization for direct imaging of exoplanets I: Robustness to primary mirror segmentation-induced errors outside the segment diffraction limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11993

February 24, 2022 updates

Synthesis of Phospholipids Under Plausible Prebiotic Conditions and Analogies with Phospholipid Biochemistry for Origin of Life Studies
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0059

Destabilization of deep oxidized mantle drove the Great Oxidation Event
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg1626

A model for spin–orbit commensurability and synchronous starspot activity in stars with close-by planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42566-21/aa42566-21.html

Understanding the interior structure of gaseous giant exoplanets with machine learning techniques
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2022/02/aa42874-21/aa42874-21.html

Electron particle deflection using a field reversed configuration magnetosphere geometry as an analog for radiation shielding in deep space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273117722001247

Recycling of the first atmospheres of embedded planets: Dependence on core mass and optical depth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11422

CHEOPS geometric albedo of the hot Jupiter HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11516