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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October 31, 2023 updates

Gravitational lensing for interstellar power transmission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17578

Shadows and photon spheres in static and rotating traversable wormholes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16916

2023 Astrophotonics Roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7647/ace869

Signs of Similar Stellar Obliquity Distributions for Hot and Warm Jupiters Orbiting Cool Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18445

Using Lyman-α transits to constrain models of atmospheric escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18486

Secular Orbital Dynamics of the Possibly Habitable Planet K2-18 b with and without the Proposed Inner Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18754

Thermal conductivity of MgO in giant planetary interior conditions predicted by deep potential
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18876

Radiative Transfer and Inversion codes for characterizing planetary atmospheres: an overview
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19476

AC Her: Evidence of the first polar circumbinary planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19600

TransitFit: combined multi-instrument exoplanet transit fitting for JWST, HST and ground-based transmission spectroscopy studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12139

The Importance of the Upper Atmosphere to CO/O2 Runaway on Habitable Planets Orbiting Low-Mass Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08752

October 30, 2023 Updates

A roadmap to the efficient and robust characterization of temperate terrestrial planet atmospheres with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15895

Life from Outer Space: Overview on the Presence of DNA, RNA Associated BioMolecules – Amino Acids, Nucleobases, Sugars and Water Molecules in Meteorites and Carbonaceous Chondrites
https://www.researchtrend.net/bfij/pdf/Life-from-Outer-Space-Overview-on-the-Presence-of-DNA,-RNA-Associated-Bio-Molecules-%E2%80%93-Amino-Acids,-Nucleobases,-Sugars-and-Water-Molecules-in-Meteorites-and-Carbonaceous-Chondrites-Shivakumar-R-126.pdf

Biosignature, Technosignature, Event: Deconstruction, Astrobiology, and the Search for a Wholly Other Origin
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/drt.2023.0312

Dynamical aspects of Galactic habitability in N-body simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16227

Traversable wormholes in Rastall-Rainbow gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221268642300198X

Identifying SuperWASP Detected Candidate Variables with TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad06b9

Hidden Companions to Intermediate-mass Stars. XI. Uncovering a 0.7 M⊙, 2.3 au Companion in the Astrometric Binary HIP 111200 = 58 Aquarii
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad05d0

Constraints to Efficiently Find Interstellar Object Generated Craters on the Moon
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad0731

Kepler Bonus: Light Curves of Kepler Background Sources
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17733

Global Chemical Transport on Hot Jupiters: Insights from 2D VULCAN photochemical model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17751

Formation of giant planets around intermediate-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17767

October 27, 2023 updates

Detection of the infrared aurora at Uranus with Keck-NIRSPEC
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02096-5

Venus’s atmospheric nitrogen explained by ancient plate tectonics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02102-w

NIGHT: a compact, near-infrared, high-resolution spectrograph to survey helium in exoplanet systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3285/7330794

Classify and Explore the Diversity of Planetary Population and Interior Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acf0bf

The Inhomogeneity Effect. I. Inhomogeneous Surface and Atmosphere Accelerate Planetary Cooling
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acee66

The Inhomogeneity Effect. II. Rotational and Orbital States Impact Planetary Cooling
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ace780

The Inhomogeneity Effect. III. Weather Impacts on the Heat Flow of Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acee7d

The GAPS programme at TNG XLIX. TOI-5398, the youngest compact multi-planet system composed of an inner sub-Neptune and an outer warm Saturn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16888

Long-term Orbital Period Variation of Hot Jupiters from Transiting Time Analysis using TESS Survey Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17225

Synthetic Detections of Interstellar Objects with The Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17575

October 26, 2023 Updates

Time-resolved transmission spectroscopy of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b
Https://Www.Aanda.Org/Articles/Aa/Full_Html/2023/10/Aa47262-23/Aa47262-23.Html

Jupiter Atmospheric Models and Outer Boundary Conditions for Giant Planet Evolutionary Calculations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acf456

Stability and Detectability of Exomoons Orbiting HIP 41378 f, a Temperate Jovian Planet with an Anomalously Low Apparent Density
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad011c

Evidence That the Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters around Sun-like Stars Decreases with Stellar Age
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acff71

Formation of giant planets around intermediate-mass stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3254/7330173?searchresult=1

Quantification of Electron/Positron Pairs for Matter/Anti-Matter Propulsion — Recent Experimental Results
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2023-4731

Planetary Engulfment Prognosis within the ρ CrB System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16104

Dwindling Surface Cooling of a Rotating Jovian Planet Leads to a Convection Zone that Grows to a Finite Depth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16124

Breaking up with the continuous exoplanet mass-radius relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16733

October 25, 2023 updates

The giant nature of WD 1856 b implies that transiting rocky planets are rare around white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15219

Heat-Flux Limited Cloud Activity and Vertical Mixing in Giant Planet Atmospheres with an Application to Uranus and Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15267

New Mass and Radius Constraints on the LHS 1140 Planets — LHS 1140 b is Either a Temperate Mini-Neptune or a Water World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15490

Tilted circumbinary planetary systems as efficient progenitors of free-floating planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15603

The positional probability and true host star identification of TESS exoplanet candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15833

A roadmap to the efficient and robust characterization of temperate terrestrial planet atmospheres with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15895

A New 2D Energy Balance Model For Simulating the Climates of Rapidly- and Slowly-Rotating Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15992