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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February 12, 2024 Updates

The EBLM project — XIII. The absolute dynamical masses of the circumbinary planet host TOI-1338/BEBOP-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06449

Devolatilization of extrasolar planetesimals by 60Fe and 26Al heating
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06476

Cool Gaseous Exoplanets: surveying the new frontier with Twinkle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06488

Rendez-vous with massive interstellar objects, as triggers of destabilisation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae428/7604616?searchresult=1

Migration of low-mass planets in inviscid disks: The effect of radiation transport on the dynamical corotation torque
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae372/7606325?searchresult=1

Quantifying the Transit Light Source Effect: Measurements of Spot Temperature and Coverage on the Photosphere of AU Microscopii with High-resolution Spectroscopy and Multicolor Photometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0bed

A High-resolution Non-detection of Escaping Helium in the Ultrahot Neptune LTT 9779b: Evidence for Weakened Evaporation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad23cf

Muted Features in the JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectrum of Hot Neptune LTT 9779b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad20e4

Eccentricity Distribution beyond the Snow Line and Implications for Planetary Habitability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2463

Formation of the Trappist-1 system in a dry protoplanetary disk
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa48309-23/aa48309-23.html

Constraining the reflective properties of WASP-178 b using CHEOPS photometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa46705-23/aa46705-23.html

February 09, 2024 updates

How the adaptation of the human microbiome to harsh space environment can determine the chances of success for a space mission to Mars and beyond
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2023.1237564

Multiple Habitable Phases on Outer Exosolar Worlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1685

Deep Learning and Quantum Algorithms Approach to Investigating the Feasibility of Wormholes: A Review
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133724000179

The COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy for missions to Icy Worlds: A review of history, current scientific knowledge, and future directions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221455242400021X

Tidal Dissipation in Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05338

The Impact of Cometary ‘impacts’ on the Chemistry, Climate, and Spectra of Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05509

Representation of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle in CMIP6
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05671

February 08, 2024 updates

Potential Prebiotic Pathways in Extraterrestrial Atmosphere: A Computational Exploration of HCN and NH3 Reactions
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00321

‘It’s getting closer and closer for sure.’ How SETI is expanding its search for alien intelligence
https://www.space.com/seti-expanding-search-for-alien-intelligence

Exploring the collinear Lagrangian points of exoplanet systems with P–R drag and oblateness
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12036-023-09993-1

Forming giant planets around late-M dwarfs: Pebble accretion and planet–planet collision
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa47664-23/aa47664-23.html

Modeling Atmospheric Lines By the Exoplanet Community (MALBEC) version 1.0: A CUISINES radiative transfer intercomparison project
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04329

Signatures of X-ray dominated chemistry in the spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04688

Predicting Interstellar Object Chemodynamics with Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04904

Searching for Giant Exoplanets around M-dwarf Stars (GEMS) I: Survey Motivation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04946

The possibility of panspermia in the deep cosmos by means of the planetary dust grains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04990

Clouds and Seasonality on Terrestrial Planets with Varying Rotation Rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04900

February 07, 2024 updates

Forming giant planets around late-M dwarfs: Pebble accretion and planet–planet collision
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa47664-23/aa47664-23.html

Eccentricity Distribution Beyond the Snow Line and Implications for Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03441

The TESS-Keck Survey. XIX. A Warm Transiting Sub-Saturn Mass Planet and a non-Transiting Saturn Mass Planet Orbiting a Solar Analog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03498

TESS and ESPRESSO discover a super-Earth and a mini-Neptune orbiting the K-dwarf TOI-238
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04113

February 06, 2024 updates

AI and Robots Impact on Space Exploration
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-023-00147-7

SETI, artificial intelligence, and existential projection
https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/77/2/36/3230686

Characterising TOI-732 b and c: New insights into the M-dwarf radius and density valley
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa48180-23/aa48180-23.html

Harnessing machine learning for accurate treatment of overlapping opacity species in general circulation models
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/02/aa48221-23/aa48221-23.html

Direct Exoplanet Detection using Convolutional Image Reconstruction (ConStruct): A New Algorithm for Post-processing High-contrast Images
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad11eb

Octofitter: Fast, Flexible, and Accurate Orbit Modelling to Detect Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01971

Stellar companions and Jupiter-like planets in young associations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02148