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 01, 2024 updates

Signatures of X-Ray-dominated Chemistry in the Spectra of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad24e4

A comprehensive semigray climate model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063324000308

Exoplanet Hunting in the Classroom: An Easy-to-Implement Experiment based on Video-Aided Light Curve Analysis with Smartphones
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/pte/article-abstract/62/3/226/3267013/Exoplanet-Hunting-in-the-Classroom-An-Easy-to

Hunting for exocomet transits in the TESS database using the Random Forest method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19075

The impact of the explicit representation of convection on the climate of a tidally locked planet in global stretched-mesh simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19277

Connections between Planetary Populations and the Chemical Characteristics of their Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19321

Searching for NLTE effects in the high-resolution transmission spectrum of WASP-121 b with Cloudy for Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19352

The effect of cloudy atmospheres on the thermal evolution of warm giant planets from an interior modelling perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19466

February 29, 2024 updates

Atmospheric formaldehyde production on early Mars leading to a potential formation of bio-important molecules
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-52718-9

CHEOPS observations of KELT-20 b/MASCARA-2 b: An aligned orbit and signs of variability from a reflective day side
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa47533-23/aa47533-23.html

Synthetic light curves of exoplanet transit using nanosatellite data
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133724000313

Exoplanets Prediction in Multi-Planetary Systems and Determining the Correlation Between the Parameters of Planets and Host Stars Using Artificial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17898

February 28, 2024 updates

Pathways to the Origin and Evolution of Meanings in the Universe
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119865667

The Sun Remains Relatively Refractory Depleted: Elemental Abundances for 17,412 Gaia RVS Solar Analogs and 50 Planet Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16954

An Eccentric Planet Orbiting the Polar V808 Aurigae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16959

Constraining Planetary Formation Models Using Conditional Occurrences of Various Planet Types
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17212

On the Impact and Utility of Single-Exomoon Modeling for Multi-Moon Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17324

Nodal precession of a hot Jupiter transiting the edge of a late A-type star TOI-1518
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17325

Ultraviolet and Chromospheric activity and Habitability of M stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17384

TOI-1135 b: A young hot Saturn-size planet orbiting a solar-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17448

Three Warm Jupiters around Solar-analog stars detected with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17592

Testing approximate infrared scattering radiative-transfer methods for hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17697

Automated Scheduling of Doppler Exoplanet Observations at Keck Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17734

February 27, 2024 updates

Global Chemical Transport on Hot Jupiters: Insights from the 2D VULCAN Photochemical Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1600

Identifying Potential Habitats Beyond Earth: A Multilayered Statistical Analysis of NASA’s Confirmed Exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378491097_Identifying_Potential_Habitats_Beyond_Earth_A_Multilayered_Statistical_Analysis_of_NASA%27s_Confirmed_Exoplanets

Tropical cyclones on tidally locked rocky planets: Dependence on rotation period
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16687

Numerical performance of correlated-k distribution method in atmospheric escape simulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16715

Toward the Stars: Technological, Ethical, and Sociopolitical Dimensions of Interstellar Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15536

Investigation of the Alzofon weight reduction experiment using NMR spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15529

Evaluating Classification Algorithms: Exoplanet Detection using Kepler Time Series Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15874

Pulsation in TESS Objects of Interest
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15935

Stars of the Lower Part of the Main Sequence with Discovered Exoplanets and Candidates. Periods of Rotations or Revolutions?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15541

February 26, 2024 updates

What if LLMs Have Different World Views: Simulating Alien Civilizations with LLM-based Agents
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13184

Aeronomic Model of Hydrogen–Helium Upper Atmospheres of Hot Giant Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772923120144

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). XII. The Detectability of Capstone Biosignatures in the Mid-infrared—Sniffing Exoplanetary Laughing Gas and Methylated Halogens
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1f4b

Earth as an Exoplanet. III. Using Empirical Thermal Emission Spectra as an Input for Atmospheric Retrieval of an Earth-twin Exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad198b

TOI-6883.01: A Single-transit Planet Candidate Detected from TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad2c85

Multiple Patchy Cloud Layers in the Planetary Mass Object SIMP0136+0933
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15001

Trojan Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15168

How do wavelength correlations affect your transmission spectrum? Application of a new fast and flexible 2D Gaussian process framework to transiting exoplanet spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15204