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 08, 2024 updates

Dynamics of the β Pictoris planetary system and its falling evaporating bodies
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48203-23/aa48203-23.html

A Novel Methodology for Hunting Exoplanets in Space Using Machine Learning
https://publications.eai.eu/index.php/IoT/article/view/5331

Confronting compositional confusion through the characterisation of the sub-Neptune orbiting HD 77946
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04464

Star-spot activity, orbital obliquity, transmission spectrum, physical properties, and TTVs of the HATS-2 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04476

March 07, 2024 updates

The elusive atmosphere of WASP–12 b – High-resolution transmission spectroscopy with CARMENES
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48107-23/aa48107-23.html

Precise Mass Measurement of OGLE-2013-BLG-0132/MOA-2013-BLG-148: A Saturn-mass Planet Orbiting an M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2514

AstroSA: An astronomical observation scheduler assessment framework in python
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133724000210

The Process We Call Earth: Relationships Between Dynamic Feedbacks and the Search for Gaiasignatures in a New Paradigm of Earthlikeness
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023CN000223

Possible Hycean conditions in the sub-Neptune TOI-270 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03244

JWST Reveals CH4, CO2, and H2O in a Metal-rich Miscible Atmosphere on a Two-Earth-Radius Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03325

How habitable are M-dwarf Exoplanets? Modeling surface conditions and exploring the role of melanins in the survival of Aspergillus niger spores under exoplanet-like radiation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03403

Accurate reference spectra of HD in H2/He bath for planetary applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03747

The Geochemical Potential for Metabolic Processes on the Sub-Neptune Exoplanet K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03918

The GAPS Programme at TNG: LV. A HeI survey of close-in giant planets hosted by M-K dwarf stars with GIANO-B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00608

March 06, 2024 updates

Exoplanet Detection Empowered with Artificial Intelligence
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378746512_Exoplanet_Detection_Empowered_with_Artificial_Intelligence

Exoplanet Exploration: Charting New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378742832_Exoplanet_Exploration_Charting_New_Worlds_Beyond_Our_Solar_System

The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. II. A Young Hot Jupiter Candidate around the AB Dor Member HS Psc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02378

Breaking Giant Chains: Early-Stage Instabilities in Long-Period Giant Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02412

Search for giant planets in M67 V: a warm Jupiter orbiting the turn-off star S1429
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02911

Exoplanet Populations and their Dependence on Host Star Properties (Handbook of Exoplanets, 2nd Edition)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00023

March 05, 2024 updates

Warp Drive Concept: Harnessing the McGinty Equation’s Fractal Potential for Faster-Than-Light Travel
https://unisciencepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Warp-Drive-ConceptHarnessing-the-McGinty-Equations-Fractal-Potential-for-Faster-Than-Light-Travel.pdf

In an exoplanet atmosphere far, far away
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-024-00586-2

Science fiction media representations of exoplanets: portrayals of changing astronomical discoveries
https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2301_2024_A04/

Exomoon Phase Curves: Toroidal Exosphere Simulations of Exo-Ios Orbiting 8 Exoplanets in Alkali Spectroscopy
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007935

Examining the detectability of ringing on highly eccentric exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01026

A Search for Temporal Atmospheric Variability of Kepler Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01295

The GAPS Programme at TNG LIV. Multiple molecular species in the atmosphere of HAT-P-11 b and review of the HAT-P-11 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01527

ROME IV. The Arecibo Search for Substellar Magnetospheric Radio Emissions in Purported Exoplanet-Hosting Systems at 5 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02226

Towards atmospheric retrievals of panchromatic light-curves: ExPLOR-ing generalized inversion techniques for transiting exoplanets with JWST and Ariel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02244

The “Drake equation” of exomoons — a cascade of formation, stability and detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05390

Direct Radiation Pressure Measurements for Lightsail Membranes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00117

March 04, 2024 Updates

Feasibility of Communication with a Hypothetical Radio Telescope on Trappist-1
https://estradad.es/teorias/pdf/EN%20Feasibility%20of%20Communication%20with%20a%20Hypothetical%20Radio%20Telescope%20on%20Trappist-1.pdf

Validity of energy conditions of matter in traversable wormholes under the f(Q) modified gravity theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17498

Advances in Spacecraft Engineering: A Comprehensive Plan for Future Missions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378313874_Advances_in_Spacecraft_Engineering_A_Comprehensive_Plan_for_Future_Missions

Validation of a Third Planet in the LHS 1678 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00110

LV: A HeI survey of close-in giant planets hosted by M-K dwarf stars with GIANO-B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00608

Exomoon Phase Curves: Toroidal Exosphere Simulations of Exo-Ios Orbiting 8 Exoplanets in Alkali Spectroscopy
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007935

Transiting exoplanets with the Mid-InfraRed Instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope: From simulations to observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00676