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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November 21, 2023 updates

Constraining Background N2 Inventories on Directly Imaged Terrestrial Exoplanets to Rule Out O2 False Positives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad03e9

Analyzing light curves to highlight phenomena and trends in planetary systems that house terrestrial exoplanets
https://tns.ewapublishing.org/article.html?pk=962c6fab1dae4c7baf710fd521756c51

Optical constants of exoplanet haze analogs from 0.3 to 30 microns : Comparative sensitivity between spectrophotometry and ellipsometry
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375716931_Optical_constants_of_exoplanet_haze_analogs_from_03_to_30_microns_Comparative_sensitivity_between_spectrophotometry_and_ellipsometry

Water content of rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375716603_Water_content_of_rocky_exoplanets_in_the_habitable_zone

The GAPS Programme at TNG L — TOI-4515 b: An eccentric warm Jupiter orbiting a 1.2 Gyr-old G-star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11903

November 20, 2023 Updates

The Human Challenges of Conquering Space and Colonizing Other Worlds
https://www.academia.edu/103359543/

Corrections of errors in special relativity theory and the influence of paradoxes on it
https://hal.science/hal-04283596/document

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/

Why are Mountaintops Cold? The Transition of Surface Lapse Rate on Dry Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10151

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey: III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-Transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10232

Calibration Unit Design for High-Resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization (HISPEC)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10239

Forming Giant Planets Around Late-M Dwarfs: Pebble Accretion and Planet-Planet Collision
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10317

Wavelet Transforms of Microlensing Data: Denoising, Extracting Intrinsic Pulsations, and Planetary Signals
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad07d9

Planetary Entropy Production as a Thermodynamic Constraint for Exoplanet Habitability
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3526/7425639?searchresult=1

November 16, 2023 updates

Is There Future Potential For ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Travel Through Dark Energy Sources? An Exploratory Review
https://ierj.in/journal/index.php/ierj/article/view/2836

Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology
https://books.google.com/books?id=LpfiEAAAQBAJ&dq=interstellar+exploration&lr=lang_en&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Membrane Models as a Means of Propulsion in General Relativity: Super-Luminal Warp-Drive that Satisfies the Weak Energy Condition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07193

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06849-0

Scaling K2. VII. Evidence For a High Occurrence Rate of Hot Sub-Neptunes at Intermediate Ages
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acf9f9

CHEOPS and TESS view of the ultra-short-period super-Earth TOI-561 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa44946-22/aa44946-22.html

Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars – III. Planet candidates and long-term activity signals in six open clusters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa46890-23/aa46890-23.html

On the orbital decay of the gas giant Kepler – 1658 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3530/7424149

The Impact of the Free-floating Planet Mass Function on the Event Rate for Accurate Microlensing Parallax Determination: Application to Euclid and Roman Parallax Observation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad05c1

Corrigendum: “Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting M Dwarfs with James Webb Space Telescope” (2021, PASP, 133, 054401)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acf5a3

A cool runaway greenhouse without surface magma ocean
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08444

Deconstructing Alien Hunting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08476

November 15, 2023 updates

Does Gaia Play Dice? Simple Models of Non-Darwinian Selection
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0036

Is There Such a Thing as a Biosignature?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0042

Benefits of Spin Polarization for Inertial and Magneto-Inertial Fusion Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B39138

A Solution to Continuous RFI in Narrowband Radio SETI with FAST: The MultiBeam Point-source Scanning Strategy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad06b1

BICEPS: An improved characterization model for low- and intermediate-mass exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202346965

Candidates for Transiting Planets in OGLE-IV Galactic Bulge Fields
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07647

The life cycle of stars and their planets from the high energy perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07674

Critique of arXiv submission 2308.15623, “Discovery of Spherules of Likely Extrasolar Composition in the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) Bolide”, by A. Loeb et al
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07699