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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October 02, 2024 updates

HATS-38 b and WASP-139 b Join a Growing Group of Hot Neptunes on Polar Orbits
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad70b8

Nightside Clouds on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets Mimic Atmosphere-free Scenarios
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad78de

HZ_evolution: A Package to Calculate Habitable Histories
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad8129

Promise and Peril: Stellar Contamination and Strict Limits on the Atmosphere Composition of TRAPPIST-1c from JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19333

A sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star: No evidence of transits in TESS photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00577

The Dynamical History of HIP-41378 f — Oblique Exorings Masquerading as a Puffy Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00641

Tidal evolution of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00739

The obliquity and atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-122b (KELT-14b) with ESPRESSO: An aligned orbit and no sign of atomic or molecular absorption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00800

Rate-induced biosphere collapse in the Daisyworld model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00043

Promise and Peril: Stellar Contamination and Strict Limits on the Atmosphere Composition of TRAPPIST-1c from JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19333

The Compositions of Rocky Planets in Close-in Orbits Tend to be Earth-Like
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00213

October 01, 2024 updates

A sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa51311-24/aa51311-24.html

Accelerated Biological Evolution in Outer Space: Insights from Numerical Analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524005460

Timing and Likelihood of the Origin of Life Derived from Post-Impact Highly Reducing Atmospheres
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0128

Redshifted Sodium Transient near Exoplanet Transit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad6b29

Improved Limits on Relativistic Interstellar Objects near Earth
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad7ff1

ExoLyn: a golden mean approach to multi-species cloud modelling in atmospheric retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18181

September 30, 2024 Updates

Frank Drake is alive! (Rethinking the Drake equation for the search for biological life)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384328976_Frank_Drake_is_alive_Rethinking_the_Drake_equation_for_the_search_for_biological_life

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Extraterrestrial Life, Plasmoids, Shape Shifters, Replicons, Thunderstorms, Lightning, Hallucinations, Aircraft Disasters, Ocean Sightings
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383034675_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena_Extraterrestrial_Life_Plasmoids_Shape_Shifters_Replicons_Thunderstorms_Lightning_Hallucinations_Aircraft_Disasters_Ocean_Sightings

Quantum Culinary Exploration: Unlocking the Potential of Extraterrestrial Food Systems Through Quantum Computing
https://www.researchgate.net/search/publication?q=Quantum%20Culinary%20Exploration%3A%20Unlocking%20the%20Potential%20of%20Extraterrestrial%20Food%20Systems%20Through%20Quantum%20Computing

Modified particle dynamics and thermodynamics in a traversable wormhole in bumblebee gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17351

Planet Mass Function around M stars at 1-10 au: A Plethora of sub-Earth mass objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18171

3D Modeling of Moist Convective Inhibition in Hydrogen-Dominated Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18217

uGMRT Survey of EXoplanets Around M-dwarfs (GS-EXAM): Radio observations of GJ 1151
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18507

Terrestrial planet formation during giant planet formation and giant planet migration I: The first 5 million years
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18610

Giant planets population around B stars from the first part of the BEAST survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18793

Growing planet envelopes in spite of recycling flows
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2250/7789851

September 27, 2024 updates

Follow the serpentine as a comprehensive diagnostic for extraterrestrial habitability
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02373-x

The erosion of large primary atmospheres typically leaves behind substantial secondary atmospheres on temperate rocky planets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-024-52642-6

A Thermodynamic Criterion for the Formation of Circumplanetary Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad644a

A Novel Method to Constrain Tidal Quality Factor from A Nonsynchronized Exoplanetary System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad67c9

On the Value of High Precision Radial Velocity Observations and Astrometric Orbits for Binary Stars Hosting Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad7e23

MODEL&CO: Exoplanet detection in angular differential imaging by learning across multiple observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17178

Most Super-Earths Have Less Than 3% Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17394

TOI-2458 b: A mini-Neptune consistent with in situ hot Jupiter formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17532

TOI-5005 b: A super-Neptune in the savanna near the ridge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18129

September 26, 2024 updates

Radial velocity analysis of stars with debris discs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2223/7775530

Probing the Possible Causes of the Transit Timing Variation for TrES-2b in the TESS Era
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6d66

Christian Huygens and William Derham and 18th Century Precursors to the Habitable Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad7e21

Forming planetary systems that contain only minor planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16354

Tidally Heated Sub-Neptunes, Refined Planetary Compositions, and Confirmation of a Third Planet in the TOI-1266 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16374

Searching for GEMS: TOI-6383Ab, a giant planet transiting an M3-dwarf star in a binary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16889

Searching for substellar companion candidates with Gaia. I. Introducing the GaiaPMEX tool
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16992

Searching for substellar companion candidates with Gaia. II. A catalog of 9,698 planet candidate solar-type hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16993

JWST/NIRISS and HST: Exploring the improved ability to characterise exoplanet atmospheres in the JWST era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17042

Effects of the internal temperature on vertical mixing and on cloud structures in Ultra Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17101