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 05, 2023 updates

Transgenic Plant Technology and its Role in Bioremediation
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119989318.ch19

Linking Topological Superconductors to the Sun and Planets to Generate Electric and Magnetic Fields As Well As Stellar “Fusion” Power
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodney-Bartlett-2/publication/374234723_Linking_Topological_Superconductors_to_the_Sun_and_Planets_to_Generate_Electric_and_Magnetic_Fields_As_Well_As_Stellar_Fusion_Power/links/6515628f37d0df2448f4790f/Linking-Topological-Superconductors-to-the-Sun-and-Planets-to-Generate-Electric-and-Magnetic-Fields-As-Well-As-Stellar-Fusion-Power.pdf

Exploring the viability of static spherical wormholes in f(G, T) gravity
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04526-9

Exoplanet Detection Using Feature Engineering with Ensemble Learning
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10266186

GJ 357 d: Potentially Habitable World or Agent of Chaos?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02327

Plausibility of Capture into High-Obliquity States for Exoplanets in the M Dwarf Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02332

Extended habitability of exoplanets due to subglacial water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02452

Earth as an Exoplanet. III. Using Empirical Thermal Emission Spectra as Input for Atmospheric Retrieval of an Earth-Twin Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02634

October 04, 2023 updates

Prospects for Cryovolcanic Activity on Cold Ocean Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ace9b6

Reading Between the Lines: Investigating the Ability of JWST to Identify Discerning Features in exoEarth and exoVenus Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01527

Hot Jupiters Have Giant Companions: Evidence for Coplanar High-Eccentricity Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01567

Super-Earth LHS3844b is tidally locked
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01725

October 03, 2023 updates

Fitting the Light Curve of 1I/’Oumuamua with a Nonprincipal Axis Rotational Model and Outgassing Torques
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acf617

TOI 4201 b and TOI 5344 b: Discovery of Two Transiting Giant Planets around M-dwarf Stars and Revised Parameters for Three Others
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acf56e

Outgassing Composition of the Murchison Meteorite: Implications for Volatile Depletion of Planetesimals and Interior-atmosphere Connections for Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acf760

Spectral Retrieval with JWST Photometric data: a Case Study for HIP 65426 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00089

First VLTI/GRAVITY Observations of HIP 65426 b: Evidence for a Low or Moderate Orbital Eccentricity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00148

Surrounded by Giants: Habitable Zone Stability Within the HD 141399 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00860

Hydrodynamical modelling of tidal dissipation in gas giant planets at the time of space missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01031

Reconstructing Atmospheric Parameters of Exoplanets Using Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01227

Solvent constraints for biopolymer folding and evolution in extraterrestrial environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00067

September 29, 2023 updates

A Comparative Study of Methods for Detecting Extraterrestrial Life in Exploration Missions to Mars and the Solar System II: Targeted Characteristics, Detection Techniques, and Their Combination for Survey, Detection, and Analysis
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0148

Non-living politics
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-023-00660-2

Novel High-Pressure Potassium Chloride Monohydrate and Its Implications for Water-Rich Planetary Bodies
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007622

K2-18b: THE EXOPLANET WITH POTENTIAL FOR LIFE BEYOND EARTH
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374264987_K2-18b_THE_EXOPLANET_WITH_POTENTIAL_FOR_LIFE_BEYOND_EARTH

The Prospect of Detecting Volcanic Signatures on an ExoEarth Using Direct Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15972

Helium Enhanced Planets Along the Upper Edge of the Radius Valley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16054

Atmospheric loss in giant impacts depends on pre-impact surface conditions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16399