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 13, 2024 updates

Image classification of retrograde resonance in the planar circular restricted three-body problem
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-024-10181-8

Science with a Small Two-Band UV-Photometry Mission II: Observations of Stars and Stellar Systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-024-01058-1

Which stars can form planets: Planetesimal formation at low metallicities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48899-23/aa48899-23.html

Long-term double synchronization in close-in gas giant planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae729/7627456

A.C.I.D – An Improved LSD Technique for Accurate Line Profile Retrieval
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae710/7624678

The TESS–Keck Survey. XIX. A Warm Transiting Sub-Saturn-mass Planet and a Nontransiting Saturn-mass Planet Orbiting a Solar Analog
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2765

Uncertainty Estimation in Exoplanet System Parameters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad2fba

A fast photometric image alignment algorithm with row and column means
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107624000381

Experimental bed rest as a model to investigate mechanisms of, and countermeasures against, microgravity and disease-free inactivity
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP091795

Free-Floating Planets, Survivor Planets, Captured Planets and Binary Planets from Stellar Flybys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07224

A Novel Method to Constrain Tidal Quality Factor from A Non-synchronized Exoplanetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07375

White dwarf systems: exoplanets and debris disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07427

Main-sequence exoplanet systems: tidal evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07716

The Importance of Optical Wavelength Data on Atmospheric Retrievals of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07801

March 12, 2024 updates

Two totally connected superluminal Natario warp drive spacetimes with variable velocities
https://hal.science/hal-04491320v1

Evidence for transit-timing variations of the 11 Myr exoplanet TOI-1227 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48492-23/aa48492-23.html

Three sub-Jovian-mass microlensing planets: MOA-2022-BLG-563Lb, KMT-2023-BLG-0469Lb, and KMT-2023-BLG-0735Lb
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa47951-23/aa47951-23.html

Helium in the Extended Atmosphere of the Warm Super-Puff TOI-1420b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05614

Damping Obliquities of Hot Jupiter Hosts by Resonance Locking
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05616

TOI-1173 A b: The First Inflated Super-Neptune in a Wide Binary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06240

3D simulations of TRAPPIST-1e with varying CO2, CH4 and haze profiles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06928

Tidal synchronization trapping in stars and planets with convective envelopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06979

March 11, 2024 Updates

Exomoon phase curves: Toroidal exosphere simulations of exo‐Ios orbiting 8 exoplanets in alkali spectroscopy
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1029/2023JE007935

VIRA: An Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval Framework for JWST Transmission Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04825

Atmospheric Waves Driving Variability and Cloud Modulation on a Planetary-Mass Object
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04840

MINDS: JWST/NIRCam imaging of the protoplanetary disk PDS 70
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04855

The New Horizons Extended Mission Target: Arrokoth Search and Discovery
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04927

The elusive atmosphere of WASP–12 b — High-resolution transmission spectroscopy with CARMENES
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48107-23/aa48107-23.html

Predicted asteroseismic detection yield for solar-like oscillating stars with PLATO
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48111-23/aa48111-23.html

HST astrometry of the closest brown dwarfs-II. Improved parameters and constraints on a third body
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20230158

Erratum: “The Inhomogeneity Effect. III. Weather Impacts on the Heat Flow of Hot Jupiters”
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad18d8

A Pan-STARRS1 Search for Planet Nine
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad24e9

Casimir wormhole solutions in gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907324000984

March 08, 2024 updates

Dynamics of the β Pictoris planetary system and its falling evaporating bodies
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48203-23/aa48203-23.html

A Novel Methodology for Hunting Exoplanets in Space Using Machine Learning
https://publications.eai.eu/index.php/IoT/article/view/5331

Confronting compositional confusion through the characterisation of the sub-Neptune orbiting HD 77946
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04464

Star-spot activity, orbital obliquity, transmission spectrum, physical properties, and TTVs of the HATS-2 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04476

March 07, 2024 updates

The elusive atmosphere of WASP–12 b – High-resolution transmission spectroscopy with CARMENES
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48107-23/aa48107-23.html

Precise Mass Measurement of OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148: A Saturn-mass Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2514

AstroSA: An astronomical observation scheduler assessment framework in python
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133724000210

The Process We Call Earth: Relationships Between Dynamic Feedbacks and the Search for Gaiasignatures in a New Paradigm of Earthlikeness
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023CN000223

Possible Hycean conditions in the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03244

JWST Reveals CH4, CO2, and H2O in a Metal-rich Miscible Atmosphere on a Two-Earth-Radius Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03325

How habitable are M-dwarf Exoplanets? Modeling surface conditions and exploring the role of melanins in the survival of Aspergillus niger spores under exoplanet-like radiation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03403

Accurate reference spectra of HD in H2/He bath for planetary applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03747

The Geochemical Potential for Metabolic Processes on the Sub-Neptune Exoplanet K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03918

The GAPS Programme at TNG: LV. A HeI survey of close-in giant planets hosted by M-K dwarf stars with GIANO-B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00608