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 04, 2024 Updates

Viable Wormhole Structures and Energy Conditions in f(Q,T) Theory
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad897b

Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability
https://books.google.com/books?id=o6YtEQAAQBAJ

Precise Masses Reveal that TOI-700 c is Low Density and TOI-700 d is Rocky
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5161135/v1

Supernova sweep may have cleaned up our solar system
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407924019262

The Search for the Inbetweeners: How packed are TESS planetary systems?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00245

Space/Race: Octavia E. Butler, Off-Earth Futures, and Life Beyond Settlerism
https://academic.oup.com/isle/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/isle/isae076/7852897?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Magnetic Field Evolution of Hot Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00674

Dust mass in protoplanetary disks with porous dust opacities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00277

Chapter 19 – Oscillations in terrestrial planetary atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780443156380000198

Chapter 18 – Equatorial stratospheric oscillations in planetary atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780443156380000186

A generative model for Gaia astrometric orbit catalogs: selection functions for binary stars, giant planets, and compact object companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00088

November 01, 2024 updates

New Feynman Path Integral: Towards its Application to Black Holes and Traversable Worm Hole (ER=EPR)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385352028_New_Feynman_Path_Integral_Towards_its_Application_to_Black_Holes_and_Traversable_Worm_Hole_EREPR

Preface to Eta-Earth Revisited: How Common Are Earth-like Habitats in the Galaxy?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0116

Eta-Earth Revisited I: A Formula for Estimating the Maximum Number of Earth-Like Habitats
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0075

Eta-Earth Revisited II: Deriving a Maximum Number of Earth-Like Habitats in the Galactic Disk
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0076

An Absolute Mass, Precise Age, and Hints of Planetary Winds for WASP-121A and b from a JWST NIRSpec Phase Curve
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7fe7

Setting the stage: Building and maintaining a habitable world and the early conditions that could favor life’s beginnings on Earth and beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23344

Diversities and similarities exhibited by multi-planetary systems and their architectures: I. Orbital spacings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23399

Projections of Earth’s Technosphere: Luminosity and Mass as Limits to Growth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23420

Radiatively Active Clouds and Magnetic Effects Explored in a Grid of Hot Jupiter GCMs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23436

Ultraviolet Photometry and Habitable Zones of Over 2700 Planet-Hosting Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23665

October 31, 2024 updates

Self-Shielding Enhanced Organics Synthesis in an Early Reduced Earth’s Atmosphere
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0048

The 10 pc Neighborhood of Habitable Zone Exoplanetary Systems: Threat Assessment from Stellar Encounters & Supernovae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22396

Retrievals on NIRCam transmission and emission spectra of HD 189733b with PLATON 6, a GPU code for the JWST era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22398

The effect of dynamic temperatures on pebble dynamics and planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22737

No evidence for a metallicity-dependent enhancement of distant giant companions to close-in small planets in the California Legacy Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23071

Protoplanetary disk chemistry and structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23235

A Population Analysis of 20 Exoplanets Observed from the Optical to the Near-infrared Wavelengths with HST: Evidence for Widespread Stellar Contamination
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15505

October 30, 2024 updates

SWEET-Cat: A view on the planetary mass-radius relation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/11/aa51704-24/aa51704-24.html

ExoplaNeT accRetion mOnitoring sPectroscopic surveY (ENTROPY) – I. Evidence for magnetospheric accretion in the young isolated planetary-mass object 2MASS J11151597+1937266
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/11/aa50881-24/aa50881-24.html

Atmospheric Retrievals Suggest the Presence of a Secondary Atmosphere and Possible Sulfur Species on L98-59 d from JWST Nirspec G395H Transmission Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad73d0

Evolutions of Planetary Systems and the Role of Planetary Systems to Determine the Metallicity and Habitability of Exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385352377_Evolutions_of_Planetary_Systems_and_the_Role_of_Planetary_Systems_to_Determine_the_Metallicity_and_Habitability_of_Exoplanets

Analysis the State-of-art Exoplanets Exploring Schemes: Radial Velocity, Transit and Gravitational Microlensing
https://www.deanfrancispress.com/index.php/te/article/view/1678

easyCHEM: A Python package for calculating chemical equilibrium abundances in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21364

Giant exoplanet composition: Why do the hydrogen-helium equation of state and interior structure matter?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21382

Flow Matching for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Where Reliability meets Adaptive Noise Levels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21477

PEPSI’s non-detection of escaping hydrogen and metal lines adds to the enigma of WASP-12 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21493

Reassessing Sub-Neptune Structure, Radii, and Thermal Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21584

Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing. IV. Probing the regime of dynamical tides for GK host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22162

October 29, 2024 updates

Non-Thermal Processes of Nitric Oxide Formation during Precipitation of Auroral Electrons into the Upper Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772924700744

Disc and atmosphere composition of multi-planet systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/11/aa49840-24/aa49840-24.html

Biases in Exoplanet Transmission Spectra Introduced by Limb-darkening Parametrization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7aef

Empirical Stability Criteria for 3D Hierarchical Triple Systems. I. Circumbinary Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7a78

Efficiently Searching for Close-in Companions Around Young M Dwarfs Using a Multiyear PSF Library
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad769f

From the Shadows: The Impact of Nightside Thermal Emission on Ultrahot Jupiter Transmission Spectrum Retrievals
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad6f9d

Detecting and sizing the Earth with PLATO: A feasibility study based on solar data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20077

Revised Masses for Low Density Planets Orbiting the Disordered M-dwarf System TOI-1266
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20282

The VSPEC Collection: A suite of utilities to model spectroscopic phase curves of 3D exoplanet atmospheres in the presence of stellar variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21190

Planetary migration in wind-fed non-stationary accretion disks in binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20556