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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August 17, 2023 updates

Stoichiometric model of a fully closed bioregenerative life support system for autonomous long-duration space missions
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1198689/full

An imaged 15 MJup companion within a hierarchical quadruple system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa47044-23/aa47044-23.html

The GAPS programme at TNG – XLV. HI Balmer lines transmission spectroscopy and NLTE atmospheric modelling of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46787-23/aa46787-23.html

A mineralogical reason why all exoplanets cannot be equally oxidising
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2486/7243394

GJ 9404 b: A Confirmed Eccentric Planet, and not a Candidate
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acefc5

Cylindrical Wormholes and Electromagnetic Field
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321323002572

Bound circumplanetary orbits under the influence of radiation pressure: Application to dust in directly imaged exoplanet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07994

Infrared spectra of TiO2 clusters for hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08297

Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on Earth’s biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08470

Reflected spectroscopy of small exoplanets III: probing the UV band to measure biosignature gasses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08490

August 16, 2023 updates

Secular Orbital Dynamics of Exoplanet Satellite Candidates
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094623030061

Free-floating Planet Mass Function from MOA-II 9 yr Survey toward the Galactic Bulge
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace688

Terrestrial- and Neptune-mass Free-Floating Planet Candidates from the MOA-II 9 yr Galactic Bulge Survey
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace689

Searching for Novel Chemistry in Exoplanetary Atmospheres using Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07604

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Behaviour of the Paschen lines during flares and quiescence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07685

Tidal interactions shape period ratios in planetary systems with three-body resonant chains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07839

SOLES VII: The Spin-Orbit Alignment of WASP-106 b, a Warm Jupiter Along the Kraft Break
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07532

The Mantis Network IV: A titanium cold-trap on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12847

August 15, 2023 updates

Searching for New Worlds in an Era of Massive Data Sets: Planetary Transits, Gravitational Microlensing, and Neural Networks
https://www.proquest.com/openview/fcb15808a5af2ba2c15dcd5575b9fad6/1

KMT-2022-BLG-0475Lb and KMT-2022-BLG-1480Lb: Microlensing ice giants detected via the non-caustic-crossing channel
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46667-23/aa46667-23.html

The stability of unevenly spaced planetary systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103523003342

Measuring Tidal Dissipation in Giant Planets from Tidal Circularization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06324

High-resolution emission spectroscopy retrievals of MASCARA-1b with CRIRES+: Strong detections of CO, H2O and Fe emission lines and a C/O consistent with solar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07157

The Orbit of Warm Jupiter WASP-106 b is aligned with its Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07165

August 14, 2023 Updates

Synergies between interstellar dust and heliospheric science with an Interstellar Probe
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzad034/7241816

The Galactic Interstellar Object Population: A Framework for Prediction and Inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05801

Potential Atmospheric Compositions of TRAPPIST-1 c constrained by JWST/MIRI Observations at 15 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05899

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Exoplanet Atmospheres I. Thermochemical Equilibrium Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05946

A Search for exoplanets around northern circumpolar stars VIII. filter out a planet cycle from the multi-period radial velocity variations in M giant HD 3638
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05994

The Transient Outgassed Atmosphere of 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06066

Forming rocky exoplanets around K-dwarf stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06236

ACCESS, LRG-BEASTS, & MOPSS: Featureless Optical Transmission Spectra of WASP-25b and WASP-124b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06263