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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January 22, 2024 Updates

 

Cardiovascular Challenges Beyond Earth: Investigating the Impact of Space Travel on Astronauts’ Cardiovascular Health
https://journals.lww.com/cardiologyinreview/abstract/9900/cardiovascular_challenges_beyond_earth_.194.aspx

Traversable wormholes in Finsler geometry under conformal motion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08498

Issues of Ownership and Tourism in Outer Space
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781032617961-12/issues-ownership-tourism-outer-space-attila-sipos-simran-upadhyaya

Research repertoires and boundary work in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09505431.2024.2304303

A Reply to: Large Exomoons unlikely around Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10333

Orbital evolution of close binary systems: comparing viscous and wind-driven circumbinary disc models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10808

Characterization of K2-167 b and CALM, a new stellar activity mitigation method
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae207/7581998?searchresult=1

Gaussian Processes and Nested Sampling Applied to Kepler’s Small Long-period Exoplanet Candidates
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0fe9

JWST-TSTHigh Contrast: Asymmetries, Dust Populations, and Hints of a Collision in the β Pictoris Disk with NIRCam and MIRI
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1759

January 19, 2024 updates

High-speed scientific spacecraft launches with commercial launch vehicles
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576524000304

Behind the Mask: can HARMONI@ELT detect biosignatures in the reflected light of Proxima b?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09589

A long-period transiting substellar companion in the super-Jupiters to brown dwarfs mass regime and a prototypical warm-Jupiter detected by TESS
ttps://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09657

Formation of Retrograde Hot Jupiter Triggered by Close Encounter with Tidal Circularization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09701

PLATO on the shoulders of TESS: analyzing mono-transit planet candidates in TESS data as a prior knowledge for PLATO observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10072

January 18, 2024 updates

 

 

Sulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07040-9

Retrievals Applied to a Decision Tree Framework Can Characterize Earthlike Exoplanet Analogs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad09b1

The weird and the wonderful in our Solar System: Searching for serendipity in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08763

Orbital Stability and Secular Dynamics of the Proxima Centauri Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08773

KMT-2023-BLG-0416, KMT-2023-BLG-1454, KMT-2023-BLG-1642: Microlensing planets identified from partially covered signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08904

Motion of Planetesimals in the Hill Sphere of the Star Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09086

Deciding technosignature search strategies: Multi-criteria fuzzy logic to find extraterrestrial intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09128

January 17, 2024 updates

To Sample or Not to Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalizing Flows
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad063f

Alternative solvents for life: framework for evaluation, current status and future research
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07296

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XII. The Detectability of Capstone Biosignatures in the Mid-Infrared — Sniffing Exoplanetary Laughing Gas and Methylated Halogens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08492

January 16, 2024 updates

Atmospheric properties of AF Lep b with forward modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05491

Challenges and possibilities of silicon-based life: Exploring an alternative to carbon.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377266623_Challenges_and_possibilities_of_silicon-based_life_Exploring_an_alternative_to_carbon

A Posthuman Architectural Artificial Intelligence Speculum? Text and Images in Future Spaces
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ad.3010

Iron-sulfur chemistry can explain the ultraviolet absorber in the clouds of Venus
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg8826

Pulsation in TESS Objects of Interest
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0b0a

The Once-canceled Habitable-zone Super-Earth Gliese 581d Might Indeed Exist!
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad1de4

Using the eccentric version of the restricted three-body problem to model exosolar systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960077924000250

Organic hazes as a source of life’s building blocks to warm little ponds on the Hadean Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06212