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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April 25, 2024 updates

Exploring the nearest destinations in the Milky Way
https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.171340650.06792549/v1

The Philosophy of Outer Space
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003374381/philosophy-outer-space-mirko-daniel-garasic-marcello-di-paola

FARGOCPT: 2D Multiphysics code for simulating disk interactions with stars, planets, and particles
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa48687-23/aa48687-23.html

Dynamical stability of new wormhole solutions via cold dark matter and solitonic quantum wave halos in f (R, Lm) gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686424000906

A New Parameterization for Finding Solutions for Microlensing Exoplanet Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15502

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

Chapters from the upcoming Volume 90 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (RiMG) on “Exoplanets: Compositions, Mineralogy, and Evolution”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15422
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15555
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15425
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15426
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15427
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15428
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15429
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15430
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15431
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15432
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15433

April 24, 2024 updates

NGTS discovery of a highly inflated Saturn-mass planet and a highly irradiated hot Jupiter – NGTS-26 b and NGTS-27 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa47162-23/aa47162-23.html

Comparing transit spectroscopy pipelines at the catalogue level: evidence for systematic differences
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1073/7656976

Planet Hunters NGTS: New Planet Candidates from a Citizen Science Search of the Next Generation Transit Survey Public Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad32c8

Dynamical Structures under Nonrestricted Hierarchical Planetary Systems with Different Mass Ratios
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad374b

The Impact of Cometary “Impacts” on the Chemistry, Climate, and Spectra of Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad28b3

Exploring Radio Emissions from Confirmed Exoplanets Using SKA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14468

APPLE: An Evolution Code for Modeling Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14483

A Unified Treatment of Kepler Occurrence to Trace Planet Evolution II: The Radius Cliff Formed by Atmospheric Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15172

April 23, 2024 updates

A non-anthropocentric solution to the Fermi paradox
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/nonanthropocentric-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox/22787C8A40980E7FB97AB926CFC73047

Astroecology: bridging the gap between ecology and astrobiology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/astroecology-bridging-the-gap-between-ecology-and-astrobiology/51217330954F67ED1E08143E67CE2E92

Modelling stochastic and quasi-periodic behaviour in stellar time-series: Gaussian process regression versus power-spectrum fitting
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1059/7656421

Dynamical Instabilities in Post-Disk Evolution: Hot Jupiters Left Isolated
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1076/7656424

The formation of transiting circumplanetary debris discs from the disruption of satellite systems during planet–planet scattering
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1074/7656418

Age analysis of extrasolar planets: Insight from stellar isochrone models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13398

The PEPSI Exoplanet Transit Survey (PETS). V: New Na D transmission spectra indicate a quieter atmosphere on HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13586

Empirical stability criteria for 3D hierarchical triple systems I: Circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13746

TOI-837b is a Young Saturn-sized Exoplanet with a Massive 70 M⊕ Core
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13750

Detection of Na in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-55b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13849

Mass-radius relationships and contraction of condensed planets by cooling or despinning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14278

Infrared-Radio-follow-up Observations for Detection of the Magnetic Radio Emission of Extra-Solar Planets: A New Window to Detect Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14359

A Fresh Look into the Interaction of Exoplanets Magnetosphere with Stellar Winds using MHD Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14377

April 22, 2024 Updates

AdS Ellis wormholes with scalar field
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11002

Plurality of Worlds
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-astro-071422-101131

Three-dimensional Interaction between a Planet and an Isothermal Gaseous Disk. III. Locally Isothermal Cases
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12521

TOI-4336 A b: A temperate sub-Neptune ripe for atmospheric characterization in a nearby triple M-dwarf system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12722

The open-source sunbather code: modeling escaping planetary atmospheres and their transit spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12775

The James Webb Interferometer: Space-based interferometric detections of PDS 70 b and c at 4.8 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13032

Reflective and transmissive solar sails: Dynamics, flight regimes and applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524002315

Planets that look alike might be a sign of spacefaring aliens
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407924007280

Signs of magnetic star-planet interactions in HD 118203 – TESS detects stellar variability that matches the orbital period of a close-in eccentric Jupiter-sized companion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa48722-23/aa48722-23.html

April 19, 2024 updates

Free-floating binary planets from ejections during close stellar encounters
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02239-2

Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250283634/alien-earths

Signs of magnetic star-planet interactions in HD 118203 – TESS detects stellar variability that matches the orbital period of a close-in eccentric Jupiter-sized companion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa48722-23/aa48722-23.html

Searching for Free-Floating Planets with TESS: I. Discovery of a First Terrestrial-Mass Candidate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11666

The formation of transiting circumplanetary debris discs from the disruption of satellite systems during planet-planet scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12239

Radio Observations as an Extrasolar Planet Discovery and Characterization: Interior Structure and Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12348

CRIRES+ transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127b. Detection of the resolved signatures of a supersonic equatorial jet and cool poles in a hot planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12363