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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March 18, 2024 Updates

TOI-4438 b: a transiting mini-Neptune amenable to atmospheric characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09833

The Dynamic, Chimeric Inner Disk of PDS 70
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09970

Spectral Energy Distributions of Disc-Embedded Accreting Protoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10057

Mutual occurrence ratio of planets – I. New clues to reveal origins of hot- and warm-Jupiter from the RV Sample
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae733/7630229?searchresult=1

Predicting the Dominant Formation Mechanism of Multiplanetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2c8d

A Tale of Two Peas in a Pod: The Kepler-323 and Kepler-104 Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2840

March 15, 2024 updates

Quantum Propulsion: Background and Practical Applications
https://ej-physics.org/index.php/ejphysics/article/view/294

Experimental bed rest as a model to investigate mechanisms of, and countermeasures against, microgravity and disease-free inactivity
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1113/EP091795

Fractal spatio-temporal scale-free messaging: amplitude modulation of self-executable carriers given by the Weierstrass function’s components
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06633

Beyond the Stars: Quantum Mechanics in Space
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=4qL6EAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA13&dq=interstellar+spacecraft&ots=ffCu-l8LGJ&sig=UztFTxUEyh-7qITV1cAYhVkd5Ks#v=onepage&q&f=false

Unveiling hidden companions in post-common-envelope binaries: A robust strategy and uncertainty exploration
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa47030-23/aa47030-23.html

Density discrepancy between transit-timing variations and radial velocity: Insights from the host star composition
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48549-23/aa48549-23.html

Saved by the Dark Forest: How a Multitude of Extraterrestrial Civilizations Can Prevent a Hobbesian Trap
https://academic.oup.com/monist/article/107/2/176/7629691

Climates Using Interactive Suites of Intercomparisons Nested for Exoplanet Studies (CUISINES)
https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/2632-3338_CUISINES

Venus as an Anchor Point for Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08830

An atlas of resolved spectral features in the transmission spectrum of WASP-189 b with MAROON-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08863

Friends not Foes: Strong Correlation between Inner Super-Earths and Outer Gas Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08873

March 14, 2024 updates

On the detectability of light on Dyson Sphere around white dwarf stars
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AAS…24315904A/abstract

Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00774-6

The TESS-Keck Survey. XII. A Dense 1.8 R⊕ Ultra-short-period Planet Possibly Clinging to a High-mean-molecular-weight Atmosphere after the First Gigayear
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad28bb

Gravitational lensing for interstellar power transmission
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.064029

A sub-solar metallicity on the ultra-short period planet HIP 65Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07983

The intermittently-resonant coevolution of migrating planets and their pulsating stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08014

Astrometric detection of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08226

March 13, 2024 updates

Image classification of retrograde resonance in the planar circular restricted three-body problem
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-024-10181-8

Science with a Small Two-Band UV-Photometry Mission II: Observations of Stars and Stellar Systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-024-01058-1

Which stars can form planets: Planetesimal formation at low metallicities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48899-23/aa48899-23.html

Long-term double synchronization in close-in gas giant planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae729/7627456

A.C.I.D – An Improved LSD Technique for Accurate Line Profile Retrieval
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae710/7624678

The TESS–Keck Survey. XIX. A Warm Transiting Sub-Saturn-mass Planet and a Nontransiting Saturn-mass Planet Orbiting a Solar Analog
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2765

Uncertainty Estimation in Exoplanet System Parameters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad2fba

A fast photometric image alignment algorithm with row and column means
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107624000381

Experimental bed rest as a model to investigate mechanisms of, and countermeasures against, microgravity and disease-free inactivity
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/EP091795

Free-Floating Planets, Survivor Planets, Captured Planets and Binary Planets from Stellar Flybys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07224

A Novel Method to Constrain Tidal Quality Factor from A Non-synchronized Exoplanetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07375

White dwarf systems: exoplanets and debris disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07427

Main-sequence exoplanet systems: tidal evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07716

The Importance of Optical Wavelength Data on Atmospheric Retrievals of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07801

March 12, 2024 updates

Two totally connected superluminal Natario warp drive spacetimes with variable velocities
https://hal.science/hal-04491320v1

Evidence for transit-timing variations of the 11 Myr exoplanet TOI-1227 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48492-23/aa48492-23.html

Three sub-Jovian-mass microlensing planets: MOA-2022-BLG-563Lb, KMT-2023-BLG-0469Lb, and KMT-2023-BLG-0735Lb
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa47951-23/aa47951-23.html

Helium in the Extended Atmosphere of the Warm Super-Puff TOI-1420b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05614

Damping Obliquities of Hot Jupiter Hosts by Resonance Locking
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05616

TOI-1173 A b: The First Inflated Super-Neptune in a Wide Binary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06240

3D simulations of TRAPPIST-1e with varying CO2, CH4 and haze profiles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06928

Tidal synchronization trapping in stars and planets with convective envelopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06979

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