Novembers News, research and starcharts
Edwin Rod
Hi everyone
Please find this month’s newsletters, star charts, and research attached.
There was a very interesting look at ocean planets this month and the transition where a planet turns into a mini Neptune, more reading by myself is required to fully understand that one. If your interested in the effects of light pollution there are two god papers to follow up on, and your smartphone is going to be helpful here. A few good ones on the geology of Mars and Io too.
Cheers Edwin
Research papers
A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10375
Potential long-term habitable conditions on planets with primordial H–He atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01699-8
Galactic settlement of low-mass stars as a resolution to the Fermi paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10656
Interstellar Object Accessibility and Mission Design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14980
Light pollution and the concentration of anthropogenic photons in the terrestrial atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14131
Citizen Science to Assess Light Pollution with Mobile Phones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11140
Visual Brightness Characteristics of Starlink Generation 1 Satellites
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17268
A subsurface magma ocean on Io
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06945
Large-scale Volcanism and the Heat Death of Terrestrial Worlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac6033
An interesting look at geologic activity on Mars.
Tectonics of Cerberus Fossae unveiled by marsquakes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.15136
Modeling and Alerts in Support of Human Exploration of Mars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.04021
Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05283-y
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Interesting News items
In Person or Proxy to Mars and Beyond?
By Larry Klaes, Guest Writer, Red Planet Bound
https://www.marssociety.org/news/2022/10/25/red-planet-bound
Amazing
Ice on the Moon
Artemis is around the Moon
https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/orion-enters-lunar-sphere-of-influence/
New Zealand astronomy has a rich history of valuable amateur research, and RASNZ is keen to make sure that this continues to be the case in the future, whether that involves people hosting meteor cameras, analysing variable star data, recording aurorae, documenting the history of astronomy, or undertaking visual or instrumental observations (for example). Amateur research activity can range from collecting data for others to analyse, to actively participating in the analysis and presentation of results in journals or conferences.
The main goal of RASNZ is the promotion and extension of knowledge of astronomy. One way in which we do this is by supporting amateur astronomers to participate in astronomical research. Further, RASNZ is one of entities that are to be supported by the International Astronomical Society (IAU) under its recently launched professional-amateur (pro-am) relationships initiative.
But if RASNZ is going to be effective in supporting amateur research in the future, we have to update what we know about who is research active and what their needs are. We have developed a survey for New Zealand amateur astronomers who participate in research, so we can have better information about what they do and what they need from us. If you have at some point taken part in any form of astronomical research, please help us by taking 10 minutes to respond to the survey and tell us a bit about what you do, and what support you look for. If you know of somebody who takes part in astronomical research who may not have received this notice, please pass them the link to the survey, so they can also respond. The survey will be open until 1 January 2023, and we expect to report results in February.
RASNZ Citizen Science In Astronomy: Research Survey
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