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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September 13, 2024 updates

Topological dressing method for the Einstein–Maxwell equations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-024-03288-8

The MOPYS project: A survey of 70 planets in search of extended He I and H atmospheres – No evidence of enhanced evaporation in young planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49411-24/aa49411-24.html

Exploring the Catastrophic Regime: Thermodynamics and Disintegration in Head-On Planetary Collisions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2134/7756442

Assignment and modeling of 13CH4 spectrum at 298 K in the lower part of the Tetradecad in the 4970–5300 cm−1 range
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407324003030

The inflated, eccentric warm Jupiter TOI-4914 b orbiting a metal-poor star, and the hot Jupiters TOI-2714 b and TOI-2981 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07520

Nightside Clouds on Tidally-locked Terrestrial Planets Mimic Atmosphere-Free Scenarios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07542

JWST COMPASS: The 3-5 Micron Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth L 98-59 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07552

Hot Jupiters are asynchronous rotators
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07651

Transit Timing Variation of K2-237b: Hints Toward Planet Disk Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07865

RISTRETTO: a VLT XAO design to reach Proxima Cen b in the visible
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08052

HD 222237 b: a long period super-Jupiter around a nearby star revealed by radial-velocity and Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08067

September 12, 2024 updates

The MOPYS project: A survey of 70 planets in search of extended He I and H atmospheres – No evidence of enhanced evaporation in young planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49411-24/aa49411-24.html

A new atmospheric characterization of the sub-stellar companion HR 2562 B with JWST/MIRI observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49951-24/aa49951-24.html

Transit Timing Variation of K2-237b: Hints Toward Planet Disk Migration
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slae083/7755410

Developing novel wormhole metrics in finsler-randers geometry using the barthel connection and osculating-riemannian method
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad7709

Statistics and Habitability of F-type Star–Planet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad65eb

Charged wormhole solutions in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321324002475

A photochemical PHO network for hydrogen-dominated exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06802

Why heterogeneous cloud particles matter. Iron-bearing species and cloud particle morphology affect exoplanet transmission spectra
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383946595_Why_heterogeneous_cloud_particles_matter_Iron-bearing_species_and_cloud_particle_morphology_affect_exoplanet_transmission_spectra

Waste Heat and Habitability: Constraints from Technological Energy Consumption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06737

The HD 191939 Exoplanet System is Well-Aligned and Flat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06795

The young exoplanetary system TOI-4562: Confirming the presence of a third body in the system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06924

The K2 and TESS Synergy III: search and rescue of the lost ephemeris for K2’s first planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07019

XUV irradiation of young planetary atmospheres. Results from a joint XMM-Newton and HST observation of HIP67522
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07229

Detectability Simulations of a NIR Surface Biosignature on Proxima Centauri b with Future Space Observatories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07289

Validation of up to seven TESS planet candidates through multi-colour transit photometry using MuSCAT2 data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07400

September 11, 2024 updates

Optimizing photosynthetic light-harvesting under stars: simple and general antenna models
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-024-01118-1

Cosmological wormhole: an analytical description
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad75c8

Ab initio quantum dynamics as a scalable solution to the exoplanet opacity challenge: A case study of CO$_2$ in hydrogen atmosphere
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383864055_Ab_initio_quantum_dynamics_as_a_scalable_solution_to_the_exoplanet_opacity_challenge_A_case_study_of_CO_2_in_hydrogen_atmosphere

Simulated performance of energy-resolving detectors towards exoplanet imaging with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05987

Thermal and magnetic evolution of an Earth-like planet with a basal magma ocean
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06031

Volatile-rich Sub-Neptunes as Hydrothermal Worlds: The Case of K2-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06258

Magnetic Fields in a sample of planet-hosting M dwarf stars from Kepler, K2, and TESS observed by APOGEE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06637

Bulk and atmospheric metallicities as direct probes of sequentially varying accretion mechanisms of gas and solids onto planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06670

Slow Rotation for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-51d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06697

September 10, 2024 updates

Is There a Synchronizing Influence of Planets on Solar and Stellar Cyclic Activity?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11207-024-02365-0

Machine learning for exoplanet detection in high-contrast spectroscopy – Combining cross-correlation maps and deep learning on medium-resolution integral-field spectra
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49150-24/aa49150-24.html

Machine learning for exoplanet detection in high-contrast spectroscopy – Revealing exoplanets by leveraging hidden molecular signatures in cross-correlated spectra with convolutional neural networks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49149-24/aa49149-24.html

The high-energy environment of the heavy sub-Earth GJ 367 b indicates likely complete evaporation of its atmosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49351-24/aa49351-24.html

Detection of transiting exoplanets and phase-folding their host star’s light curves from K2 data with 1D-CNN
https://academic.oup.com/jigpal/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jigpal/jzae106/7749850

High-resolution Dayside Spectroscopy of WASP-189 b: Detection of Iron during the GHOST/Gemini South System Verification Run
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad643f

Revisiting WASP-19b’s Orbital Evolution: New TESS Data and Apsidal Precession Analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad77a6

Plasma Propulsion for Interstellar Travel
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383847390_Plasma_Propulsion_for_Interstellar_Travel

Biases in Exoplanet Transmission Spectra Introduced by Limb Darkening Parametrization
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383863588_Biases_in_Exoplanet_Transmission_Spectra_Introduced_by_Limb_Darkening_Parametrization

Ab initio quantum dynamics as a scalable solution to the exoplanet opacity challenge: A case study of CO2 in hydrogen atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04439

DeepTTV: Deep Learning Prediction of Hidden Exoplanet From Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04557

Advancing Machine Learning for Stellar Activity and Exoplanet Period Rotation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05482

Formation of Close-in Neptunes Around Low-Mass Stars Through Breaking Resonant Chains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05748

Unveiling habitable planets: Toy coronagraph tackles the exozodiacal dust challenge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05797

September 09, 2024 Updates

An Improbable Pursuit – Introduction to the Current Thinking on Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Travel
https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/An-Improbable-Pursuit-Principium46-2408260749comp.pdf

The Cosmic Challenge – Why Quantum Entanglement Won’t Deliver The Ansible
https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/The-Cosmic-Challenge-Principium46-2408260749comp-3.pdf

Solo planets may be surprisingly common
https://foogue.com/article/solo-planets-may-be-surprisingly-common

Traversable wormhole with GUP corrected Casimir effect in f(R, Lm) gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003491624001957

Biases in Exoplanet Transmission Spectra Introduced by Limb Darkening Parametrization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03812

Searching for Additional Planets in TESS Multi-Planet Systems: Testing Empirical Models Based on Kepler Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03852

A hybrid approach to generating diatomic line lists for high resolution studies of exoplanets and other hot astronomical objects: Updates to ExoMol MgO, TiO and VO line lists
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03984

Progress report on the BEBOP search for circumbinary planets with radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04191

Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04386