February’s News research and star charts
Edwin Rod
February’s News research and star charts
This month it’s an interesting look for an extra proposed planet in the outer solar system and then, there has been a few interesting papers out on Trappest 1 and by extension all planets around small red dwarf stars. The results don’t look promising for atmospheres.
Research papers
Envisioning a sustainable future for space launches: a review of current research and policy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03036758.2022.2152467
The Crustal Magmatic Structure Beneath the Denali Volcanic Gap Imaged by a Dense Linear Seismic Array
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2023JB027152
On the Ocean Conditions of Hycean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12330
A Pan-STARRS1 Search for Planet Nine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17977
Minimal Conditions for Survival of Technological Civilizations in the Face of Stellar Evolution
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd547/meta
Passing Stars as an Important Driver of Paleoclimate and the Solar System's Orbital Evolution
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad24fb
TRAPPIST-1 and its compact system of temperate rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11815
Airy worlds or barren rocks? On the survivability of secondary atmospheres around the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16490
Heating of the Atmospheres of Short-orbit Exoplanets by Their Rapid Orbital Motion through an Extreme Space Environment
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad206a
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Interesting News items
An ocean on Mimas?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00345-9
A good update from Paul here on one of the most interesting Red dwarf systems
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2024/02/09/what-we-know-now-about-trappist-1-and-what-we-dont/
Eclipse not far away
Why this Ontario area may be the best place to be for next month's total solar eclipse | CBC News
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