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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August 04, 2023 updates

An M dwarf accompanied by a close-in giant orbiter with SPECULOOS
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/525/1/L98/7235807

Age Distribution of Exoplanet Host Stars: Chemical and Kinematic Age Proxies from GAIA DR3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace782

Impacts of high-contrast image processing on atmospheric retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01343

Sub-m s−1 upper limits from a deep HARPS-N radial-velocity search for planets orbiting HD 166620 and HD 144579
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01348

An Introduction to High Contrast Differential Imaging of Exoplanets and Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01354

TOI-4860 b, a short-period giant planet transiting an M3.5 dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01454

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XI. Phase-space synthesis decomposition for planet detection and characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01478

Biosignature false positives in potentially habitable planets around M dwarfs: the effect of UV radiation from one flare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01880

The Tree of Light as interstellar optical transmitter system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01900

August 03, 2023 updates

Interstellar Anthropology and Cultural Infrastructures for a Spacefaring Species
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/d9uhv/

The Quest for Warp Drive and Faster-Than-Light (FTL) (Alcubierre Alternate View)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372604286_The_Quest_for_Warp_Drive_and_Faster-Than-Light_FTL_Alcubierre_Alternate_View

On the importance and challenges of modelling extraterrestrial photopigments via density-functional theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15536

Numerical quantification of the wind properties of cool main sequence stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2100/7226714

Another look at the dayside spectra of WASP-43b and HD 209458b: Are there scattering clouds?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2287/7236051

The Unusual M-dwarf Warm Jupiter TOI-1899 b: Refinement of Orbital and Planetary Parameters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace1ef

Activity of the Star Gl 414A with Two Planets and its Effect on the Loss of Mass of the Atmosphere of the Planet Gl 414A b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-023-09782-2

The Oxygen Bottleneck for Technospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01160

Magnetohydrodynamical torsional oscillations from thermo-resistive instability in hot jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00892

August 02, 2023 updates

Grid-based Atmospheric Retrievals for Reflected-light Spectra of Exoplanets Using PSGnest
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace43b

Identifying Potentially Habitable Exoplanets: A Study using the Transit Method and Kepler dataset
https://ace.ewapublishing.org/article.html?pk=41a50a2ace364be5bd27a1a716b7ce54

Mapping out the parameter space for photoevaporation and core-powered mass-loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00020

A Unified Treatment of Kepler Occurrence to Trace Planet Evolution I: Methodology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00103

The Mass Fractionation of Helium in the Escaping Atmosphere of HD 209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00283

The Role of Magma Oceans in Maintaining Surface Water on Rocky Planets Orbiting M-Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00585

Interior dynamics of super-Earth 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00592

Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exoEarths (BARBIE) I: Using Grid-Based Nested Sampling in Coronagraphy Observation Simulations for H2O
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00648

Statistical methods for exoplanet detection with radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00701

August 01, 2023 updates

Questioning relativity?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372588507_Questioning_relativity

Suspended Animation For Deep Space Flight
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372649407_SUSPENDED_ANIMATION_FOR_DEEP_SPACE_FLIGHT

Core-envelope Decoupling Drives Radial Shear Dynamos in Cool Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acd780

Organic Catalytic Activity as a Method for Agnostic Life Detection https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0022

Relation between the moment of inertia and the k2 Love number of fluid extra-solar planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46352-23/aa46352-23.html

Life and Language Beyond Earth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/life-and-language-beyond-earth/7FBD98E5DD79CE46BC50A78AD1CBDCF5

Experimental simulations of cosmic impacts on rubrene nanoparticles in the water environment reveal the potentiality of condensed phases of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to generate prebiotic molecules https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103523003044

ExoGemS High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76b with GRACES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16738

Enhanced Size Uniformity for Near-Resonant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15875

July 31, 2023 Updates

Can XunTian Tai Chi intervention improve the level of emotional regulation of crew members in the Controlled Ecological Life Support System?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666337623000471

Nature-Inspired Concepts for High-Power Electric Propulsion Systems
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15361055.2023.2227504

Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0084

Complete X-ray census of M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood I. GJ 745 AB: Coronal-hole stars in the 10 pc sample
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46470-23/aa46470-23.html
Signal Synchronization Strategies and Time Domain SETI with Gaia DR3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acde79

Close Encounters of the Interstellar Kind: Exploring the Capture of Interstellar Objects in Near Earth Orbit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2317/7233732

Measuring Tidal Dissipation in Giant Planets from Tidal Circularization
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2298/7233104

Magnetic winding and turbulence in ultra-hot Jupiters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2311/7233742

Chasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the habitable worlds observatory
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2127/7231835

The Space Experiment of the Exo-ecosystem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15562