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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June 24, 2024 Updates

[catalog updates]

A Particle System Approach To Designing A Stable Lab-Scale Lightsail
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:d346e3a9-e5a7-4511-9574-e6a8eb962f1a

A computational model for irradiance on close-in planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15021

Transmission Spectroscopy of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet LHS 1140 b with JWST/NIRISS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15136

Two-dimensional Models of Microphysical Clouds on Hot Jupiters. I. Cloud Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3de4

Trio of super-Earth candidates orbiting K-dwarf HD 48948: a new habitable zone candidate
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/4/4464/7696217?searchresult=1#467864007

HD 110067 c has an aligned orbit — Measuring the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect inside a resonant multi-planet system with ESPRESSO
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa50570-24/aa50570-24.html

June 21, 2024 Updates

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XIII. The Value of Combining Thermal Emission and Reflected Light for the Characterization of Earth Twins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13037

Overstability of the 2:1 mean motion resonance: Exploring disc parameters with hydrodynamic simulations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa48826-23/aa48826-23.html

The mass-radius relation of exoplanets revisited
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa48690-23/aa48690-23.html

Wormholes in the f(R,L,T) theory of gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269324003769

Do We Finally Know all Stellar and Substellar Neighbors within 10 pc of the Sun?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad5844

NO PLACE LIKE HOME — The hunt for Earth-like planets has run into headwinds. Some astronomers are looking for signs of habitability on bigger worlds
https://www.science.org/content/article/could-super-earths-mini-neptunes-host-life-among-stars

June 19, 2024 updates

High contrast at short separation with VLTI/GRAVITY: Bringing Gaia companions to light
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa49507-24/aa49507-24.html

A new approach for the numerical calculation of diffraction patterns using starshades
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa49589-24/aa49589-24.html

HIP 65426 is a High-frequency Delta Scuti Pulsator in Plausible Spin–Orbit Alignment with its Directly Imaged Exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad4964

The Metallicity and Carbon-to-oxygen Ratio of the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-76b from Gemini-S/IGRINS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad4a5f

Retrieved Atmospheres and Inferred Surface Properties for Terrestrial Exoplanets Using Transmission and Reflected-light Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad381e

C/O Ratios and the formation of wide separation exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12037

Ariel stellar characterisation II. Chemical abundances of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen for 181 planet-host FGK dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12393

A new lever on exoplanetary B fields: measuring heavy ion velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12512

Windows Into Other Worlds: Pitfalls in the physical interpretation of exoplanet atmospheric spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12765

The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12794

The Aligned Orbit of a Hot Jupiter around the M Dwarf TOI-4201
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12798

Low-mass planets falling into gaps with cyclonic vortices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12813

The Distribution of Planet Radius in Kepler Multiplanet Systems Depends on Gap Complexity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12239

A Comparative Simulation Study of Hot and Ultra-hot Jupiter Atmospheres using Different Ground-based High-resolution Spectrographs with Cross-correlation Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12240

June 18, 2024 updates

A qualitative assessment of limits of active flight in low density atmospheres
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-024-64114-4

Disproving the High-eccentricity Planet HD 220773b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad57b5

Characterizing planetary systems with SPIRou: a temperate sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting the nearby fully-convective star GJ 1289 and a candidate around GJ 3378
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10384

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10547

Predicting Exoplanetary Features with a Residual Model for Uniform and Gaussian Distributions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10771

PLATO’s signal and noise budget
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11556

Detecting Planetary Oblateness in the Era of JWST: A Case Study of Kepler-167e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11644