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 12, 2023 updates

Decorated Vesicles as Prebiont Systems (a Hypothesis)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-023-09643-0

The On-orbit Performance of the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment Mission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aca8a3

Planetary system architectures with low-mass inner planets – Direct imaging exploration of mature systems beyond 1 au
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/12/aa46863-23/aa46863-23.html

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – Telluric absorption corrected high S/N optical and near-infrared template spectra of 382 M dwarf stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/12/aa46524-23/aa46524-23.html

Can Isotopologues Be Used as Biosignature Gases in Exoplanet Atmospheres?
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/13/12/2325

HIP 65426 is a High-Frequency Delta Scuti Pulsator in Plausible Spin-Orbit Alignment with its Directly Imaged Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05310

Dynamics and Clouds in Planetary Atmospheres from Telescopic Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05672

Variations in the Radius Distribution of Single and Compact Multiple Transiting Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05809

ESO/HARPS Radial Velocities Catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06586

December 11, 2023 updates

Interiors of giant planets : from Juno to Plato
https://theses.hal.science/tel-04322638v1

HD 110067 is a wide hierarchical triple system
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad12d0

The TESS-Keck Survey XVII: Precise Mass Measurements in a Young, High Multiplicity Transiting Planet System using Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04635

The origin and evolution of wide Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in young stellar clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04645

Distinguishing exoplanet companions from field stars in direct imaging using Gaia astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04873

Near-Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy of HAT-P-18 b with NIRISS: Disentangling Planetary and Stellar Features in the Era of JWST
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3813/7468143?searchresult=1

TOI-4641b: An aligned warm Jupiter orbiting a bright (V=7.5) rapidly rotating F-star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3785/7464053?searchresult=1

Separated Twins or Just Siblings? A Multiplanet System around an M Dwarf Including a Cool Sub-Neptune
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad037d

Meeting extraterrestrials: Scenarios of first contact from the perspective of exosociology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652300629X

December 8, 2023 updates

Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.1201/9781003294276/guidebook-systems-applications-astrobiology-vera-kolb

Large exomoons unlikely around Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02148-w

The planetary system Kepler-27 revisited
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjs/s11734-023-01039-5

Chalcogen isotopes reveal limited volatile contribution from late veneer to Earth
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh0670

Saltire – A model to measure dynamical masses for high-contrast binaries and exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3765/7462321

Revisiting epsilon Eridani with NEID: Identifying New Activity-sensitive Lines in a Young K Dwarf Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0b0b

Separated Twins or Just Siblings? A Multiplanet System around an M Dwarf Including a Cool Sub-Neptune
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad037d

TOI-1670 c, a 40 day Orbital Period Warm Jupiter in a Compact System, Is Well Aligned
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad0fea

Broadband, High-Reflectivity Dielectric Mirrors at Wafer Scale: Combining Photonic Crystal and Metasurface Architectures for Advanced Lightsails
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04471

On the required mass for exoplanetary radio emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03888

TOI-4641b: An Aligned Warm Jupiter Orbiting a Bright (V=7.5) Rapidly Rotating F-star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.03971

December 6, 2023 updates

Dynamics and clouds in planetary atmospheres from telescopic observations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00159-023-00150-9

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Technosignature Search of 97 Nearby Galaxies
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acf576

Polarization Criterion in Targeted SETI Observation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0be8

Kepler-discovered Multiple-planet Systems Near Period Ratios Suggestive of Mean-motion Resonances Are Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02260

Statistical Distribution Function of Orbital Spacings in Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02349

WASP-69b’s Escaping Envelope is Confined to a Tail Extending at Least Seven Planet Radii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02381

High-resolution transmission spectroscopy of ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b with NEID
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02413