December 2023 News and research items

Hi everyone

 

It’s looking like a humid warm Christmas here in New Zealand, a few news items and research papers here to read up on.

 

Humid and wet

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/505479/christmas-eve-forecast-scattered-thunderstorms-and-rain-across-nz

 

https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/weekend-newsfeed-muggy-conditions-coming-in-the-north

 

 

Merry Christmas everyone and I’ve attached some Christmas photos from last night too

 

Cheers

 

Research papers

 

A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06692-3

 

 

Binary planet formation through tides

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/2/3837/7379620

 

 

 

A Postquantum Theory of Classical Gravity

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041040

 

 

Gravitationally induced decoherence vs space-time diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43348-2

 

 

 

 

 

The Contribution of Kuri (Polynesian Dog) to the Ecological Impacts of the Human Settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.757988/full

 

 

Forty years of ocean acidification observations (1983–2023) in the Sargasso Sea at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1289931/full

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Interesting News items

 

 

Astronomers have uncovered six sub-Neptune exoplanets dancing in lock-step around the same distant star.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/six-sub-neptunes-discovered-100-light-years-away

 

 

Another very interesting system here

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2023/12/01/a-resonant-sub-neptune-harvest-at-hd-110067/

A Resonant Sub-Neptune Harvest at HD 110067

 

 

 

 

Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation

https://theconversation.com/massive-planet-too-big-for-its-own-sun-pushes-astronomers-to-rethink-exoplanet-formation-217861

 

 

 

Maven

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9519/nasas-maven-observes-the-disappearing-solar-wind/

 

 

NZ in the space race?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/505133/space-race-puts-pressure-on-new-zealand-defence-force

 

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