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 5, 2023 updates

The Origin of Life in the Universe
https://zestjournal.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/1

The Cosmic Quest For Life
https://www.ultra-unlimited.com/blog/the-cosmic-quest-for-life

Hadean Earth
https://www.everand.com/book/577378281/Hadean-Earth

Development of Solar Sail for Interstellar Exploration
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38446-2_22

Minimal Crew Size and Sensitive Reproductive Parameters on Multigenerational Interstellar Travel
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-076-08-0288/

Self-consistent simulation of photoelectrons in exoplanet winds: Faster ionisation and weaker mass-loss rates
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/12/aa47066-23/aa47066-23.html

Limits on the Detection of an Ultra-short-period Planet in the TOI-539 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad1113

Message in a Bottle—An Update to the Golden Record: 1. Objectives and Key Content of the Message
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EA003042

Genesis of the Other: The Evolution of Existential Philosophy in an Isolated AI on a Sterile Exoplanet
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376184076_Genesis_of_the_Other_The_Evolution_of_Existential_Philosophy_in_an_Isolated_AI_on_a_Sterile_Exoplanet

Saltire — A model to measure dynamical masses for high-contrast binaries and exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01924

The GPU Phase Folding and Deep Learning Method for Detecting Exoplanet Transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02063

OGLE-2019-BLG-1180Lb: Discovery of a Wide-orbit Jupiter-mass Planet around a Late-type Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01278

Two long-period giant planets around two giant stars: HD 112570 and HD 154391
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01388

December 4, 2023 Updates

Evaluation and Synthesis of four Extraterrestrial civilization Classification Systems
https://nhsjs.com/2023/evaluation-and-synthesis-of-four-extraterrestrial-civilization-classification-systems/

Atmospheric Escape From Three Terrestrial Planets in the L 98-59 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00062

Atmospheric metallicity and C/O of HD 189733 b from high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00141

Initial Results From the First Field Expedition of UAPx to Study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00558

December 1, 2023 updates

Development of Solar Sail for Interstellar Exploration
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38446-2_22

A Neptune-mass exoplanet in close orbit around a very low-mass star challenges formation models
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0233

Detecting Biosignatures in Nearby Rocky Exoplanets using High-Contrast Imaging and Medium-Resolution Spectroscopy with Extremely Large Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18117

Scaling K2 VII: Evidence for a high occurrence rate of hot sub-Neptunes at intermediate ages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18709

November 30, 2023 updates

A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06692-3

Cooperative Evolutionary Pressure and Diminishing Returns Might Explain the Fermi Paradox: On What Super-AIs Are Like and Why We Don’t See Them
https://osf.io/bq438/

Thermal Synthesis of Carbamic Acid and Its Dimer in Interstellar Ices: A Reservoir of Interstellar Amino Acids
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01108

Ground-breaking Exoplanet Science with the ANDES spectrograph at the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17075

The Carbon-Deficient Evolution of TRAPPIST-1c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17699

Spin Dynamics of Planets in Resonant Chains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17908

November 29, 2023 updates

Three Warm Jupiters around Solar-analog Stars Detected with TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad06bc

The Fermi paradox and the Drake equation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523006069

TOI-1670 c, a 40-day Orbital Period Warm Jupiter in a Compact System, is Well-aligned
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16237

The EBLM Project — From False Positives to Benchmark Stars and Circumbinary Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16677