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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November 18, 2024 Updates

Determination of the potential habitability of super-Earths
https://amslaurea.unibo.it/33282/

The Exoplanet Edge: Planets Don’t Induce Observable TTVs Faster than Half their Orbital Period
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09752

The Last Arecibo Message
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09790

Surface accretion as a dust retention mechanism in protoplanetary disks. I. Formulation and proof-of-concept simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09934

Modeling protoplanetary disk heating by planet-induced spiral shocks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09940

Explanation of the exceptionally strong timing noise of PSR J0337+1715 by a circum-ternary planet and consequences for gravity tests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10066

November 15, 2024 updates

The ESO SupJup Survey. III. Confirmation of 13CO in YSES 1 b and Atmospheric Detection of YSES 1 c with CRIRES+
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7ea9

Magnetized Winds of M-type Stars and Star–Planet Magnetic Interactions: Uncertainties and Modeling Strategy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8132

Information-Optimal Multi-Spacecraft Positioning for Interstellar Object Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09110

Fast Radio Bursts and Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09135

NGTS-33b: A Young Super-Jupiter Hosted by a Fast Rotating Massive Hot Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08960

Enhanced Stability in Planetary Systems with Similar Masses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09194

The GAPS programme at TNG LXIV: An inner eccentric sub-Neptune and an outer sub-Neptune-mass candidate around BD+00 444 (TOI-2443)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09417

Gl 725A b: a potential super-Earth detected with SOPHIE and SPIRou in an M dwarf binary system at 3.5 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09506

November 14, 2024 updates

General Velocity-Altitude Flight-Regime Diagram for Aeronautics and Astronautics
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A36169

Radio signatures of star–planet interactions, exoplanets and space weather
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-024-02405-6

Potential for observing geological diversity from mid-infrared spectra of rocky exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-024-02412-7

PEPSI’s non-detection of escaping hydrogen and metal lines adds to the enigma of WASP-12 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/535/2/1829/7899819

Tracking the influence of a very close secondary star on planetary growth and evolution
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2540/7899963

An alternating minimization algorithm with trajectory for direct exoplanet detection. The AMAT algorithm
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202451242

Preparing for the Early eVolution Explorer: Characterizing the photochemical inputs and transit detection efficiencies of young planets using multiwavelength flare observations by TESS and Swift
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08092

Searching for GEMS: Two Super-Jupiters around M-dwarfs — Signatures of Instability or Accretion?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08159

The Grass of the Universe: Rethinking Technosphere, Planetary History, and Sustainability with Fermi Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08057

November 13, 2024 updates

The impact of the cosmological constant on past and future star formation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/535/2/1449/7896079

Double-diffusive layering during the evolution of planetary mantles
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gji/ggae401/7896412

Peering into the black box: forward-modeling the uncertainty budget of high-resolution spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07303

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Exoplanet Atmospheres: A Detectability Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07738

A close outer companion to the ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-2109 b?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07797

Detectability of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Atmosphere of WASP-6 b with JWST NIRSpec PRISM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07861

The impact of water clouds on the prospective emission spectrum of Teegarden’s Star b as observed by LIFE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07922

November 12, 2024 updates

Instrumentation prospects for rocky exoplanet atmospheres studies with high resolution spectroscopy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-78071-5

Impact of oxygen fugacity on the atmospheric structure and emission spectra of ultra-hot rocky exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/11/aa50546-24/aa50546-24.html

Evolution of gas envelopes and outgassed atmospheres of rocky planets that formed via pebble accretion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/11/aa51114-24/aa51114-24.html

Analysing the dynamics of the Kepler-90 planetary system
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2518/7889028

Comparative Planetology of Magnetic Effects in Ultrahot Jupiters: Trends in High-resolution Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7ded

MAGNETIC SAILS AND INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385717669_MAGNETIC_SAILS_AND_INTERSTELLAR_TRAVEL

Migration of bodies in the Proxima Centauri and Trappist 1 planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05954

Magnetic interaction of stellar coronal mass ejections with close-in exoplanets: implication on planetary mass loss and Ly-α transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06283

Detecting Secular Perturbations in Kepler Planetary Systems Using Simultaneous Impact Parameter Variation Analysis (SIPVA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06452

Detection and Characterisation of Giant Planets with Gaia Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06705