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 22, 2024 updates

The PFS View of TOI-677 b: A Spin–Orbit Aligned Warm Jupiter in a Dynamically Hot System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2855

An Approach for Exoplanet Detection using Machine Learning By IJISRT
https://www.ijisrt.com/an-approach-for-exoplanet-detection-using-machine-learning

Characterization of starspots on a young M-dwarf K2-25: multi-band observations of stellar photometric variability and planetary transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13946

An Agnostic Biosignature Based on Modeling Panspermia and Terraformation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14195

March 21, 2024 updates

At least one in a dozen stars shows evidence of planetary ingestion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07091-y

Coupling haze and cloud microphysics in WASP-39b’s atmosphere based on JWST observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae826/7632778

Superflare Rate Variability on M Dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae818/7632773

A Proposal for Enhancing Technosignature Search toward the Galactic Center
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2a48

Confirming the Warm and Dense Sub-Saturn TIC 139270665 b with the Automated Planet Finder and Unistellar Citizen Science Network
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2772

Sites of Planet Formation in Binary Systems. I. Evidence for Disk-Orbit Alignment in the Close Binary FO Tau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13045

LHS 1140 b is a potentially habitable water world
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13265

March 20, 2024 updates

Extensive dynamic changes in the human transcriptome and its circadian organization during prolonged bed rest
https://cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)00552-2

The effects of general relativity on close-in radial-velocity-detected exosystems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa46727-23/aa46727-23.html

Transiting exoplanets with the Mid-InfraRed Instrument on board JWST: From simulations to observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa47127-23/aa47127-23.html

A non-zero Doppler amplitude is not enough: Revisiting the putative radial velocity detection of sub-Venus exoplanet L 98-59 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae778/7632144

OGLE-2017-BLG-0448Lb: A Low Mass–Ratio Wide-orbit Microlensing Planet?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad284f

Direct fusion drive based on centrifugal mirror confinement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524001504

Unveiling MOA-2007-BLG-192: An M Dwarf Hosting a Likely Super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12118

Uranus and Neptune as methane planets: producing icy giants from refractory planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12512

Do Temperate Rocky Planets Around M Dwarfs have an Atmosphere ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12617

A plethora of the Earth-like planet: Ramifications of a Fuzzy World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12441

Terrestrial Life in Light of the Copernican Principle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12051

March 19, 2024 updates

The Astrobiology Primer 3.0
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0116

Chapter 1: The Astrobiology Primer 3.0
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0129

Balance and imbalance in biogeochemical cycles reflect the operation of closed, exchange, and open sets
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316535121

A Revisit of the Mass–Metallicity Trends in Transiting Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad298d

A Gap in the Densities of Small Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs: Rigorous Statistical Confirmation Using the Open-source Code RhoPop
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad26f5

Analysis and simulation of the effect of large optical range difference of common path coherent-dispersion spectrometer on the detection of exoplanet radial velocities
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030401824001809

Long-term double synchronization in close-in gas giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10979

The role of Ohmic dissipation of internal currents on Hot Jupiter radii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11501

Logistic regression to boost exoplanet detection performances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11571

The fuzzy cores of Jupiter and Saturn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11657

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