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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December 19, 2023 updates

A New Scenario for the Formation of Planetary Atmospheres
https://sf2a.eu/proceedings/2023/2023sf2a.conf.381H.pdf

How Formation and Evolution Impact the Abundances of Biocritical Elements in Planets and Planetary Environments
https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/10108?ln=en

Traversable wormhole solutions admitting Karmarkar condition in Lyra manifold
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04763-y

Oxidation of iron by giant impact and its implication on the formation of reduced atmosphere in the early Earth
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi6096

Effect of stellar wind on the efficiency of plasma radio emission from exoplanet HD189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10121

Atmospheres as a Window to Rocky Exoplanet Surfaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11133

December 18, 2023 Updates

Exploring the Development of Astrobiology Scientific Research through Bibliometric Network Analysis: A Focus on Biomining and Bioleaching
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/13/6/797

The Fabric of Reality: Space, Time, and the Fundamental Laws of Physics
https://jest.com.pk/index.php/jest/article/view/14

The Innovators: Pioneers in Engineering and Technological Breakthroughs
https://jest.com.pk/index.php/jest/article/view/15

Bioenergetic Modeling of Methanogens In Europa’s Subsurface Ocean Environment
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023DPS….5531510G/abstract

Secular Dynamics of Compact Three-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10031

First exploration of the runaway greenhouse transition with a 3D General Circulation Model
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/12/aa46936-23/aa46936-23.html

December 14, 2023 updates

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Detection and Characterization of Anomalous Transits in Kepler Lightcurves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acfa6c

The California Legacy Survey. IV. Lonely, Poor, and Eccentric: A Comparison between Solitary and Neighborly Gas Giants
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/acffc0

Outcomes of Sub-Neptune Collisions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07648

Inferring Atmospheric Properties of Exoplanets with Flow Matching and Neural Importance Sampling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08295

Optimising spectroscopic observations of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08320

DEATHSTAR: A system for confirming planets and identifying false positive signals in TESS data using ground-based time domain surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08373

December 13, 2023 updates

Interactive bioacoustic playback as a tool for detecting and exploring nonhuman intelligence: “conversing” with an Alaskan humpback whale
https://peerj.com/articles/16349/

Testing the Limits of Biosignature Detection in Ca-sulphate Mixtures Through a Simulated Martian Environment
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad103f

Nonthermal Atmospheric Escape on the Kepler-11 “Super-Earths” Driven by Stellar Wind Sputtering
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0a84

One-dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks for Detecting Transiting Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07161

Precise photoionisation treatment and hydrodynamic effects in atmospheric modelling of warm and hot Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07236

A study of two periodogram algorithms for improving the detection of small transiting planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04282