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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September 02, 2024 Updates

Traversable Wormhole Solutions utilizing Karmarkar Condition in $f(\mathcal{R}, \mathcal{G})$ Gravity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1572-9494/ad745f

Are Stars Really Ingesting their Planets? Examining an Alternative Explanation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15326

Warp Drives and Closed Timelike Curves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad74d1

Extraterrestrial Life: Plasmas, UAP, Shape Shifters, Replicons, Thunderstorms, Hallucinations, Aircraft Disasters, Unidentified Ocean Phenomenon
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383034675_Extraterrestrial_Life_Plasmas_UAP_Shape_Shifters_Replicons_Thunderstorms_Unidentified_Ocean_Phenomenon

Separating Super-Puffs vs. Hot Jupiters Among Young Puffy Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16793

A false positive transit candidate for EPIC 211101996 from K2 and TESS data identified as background eclipsing binary Gaia DR3 66767847894609792
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16797

The MIRI Exoplanets Orbiting White Dwarfs (MEOW) Survey: Mid-Infrared Excess Reveals a Giant Planet Candidate around a Nearby White Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16813

Unveiling the HD 95086 system at mid-infrared wavelengths with JWST/MIRI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16843

Role of magma oceans in controlling carbon and oxygen of sub-Neptune atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17056

Discovery and characterization of a dense sub-Saturn TOI-6651b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17179

A hybrid approach to generating diatomic line lists for high resolution studies of exoplanets and other hot astronomical objects: Updates to ExoMol MgO, TiO and VO line lists
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzae037/7746432?searchresult=1

Exoplanet Harmony: Confirming Kepler’s Third Law with Kepler and TESS Discoveries
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad74d9

PT-symmetry in one-way wormholes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003491624001726

We might finally know what made the mysterious Wow! signal
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0262407924015495

August 30, 2024 updates

Simulating the characteristics of extra-terrestrial civilizations that encounter Earth
https://knuthlab.org/papers/knuth—kavli-2024—galactic-colonization.pdf

Kavli-IAU Symposium (IAUS 387): (Toward) Discovery of Life Beyond Earth and its Impact
https://www.iau.org/science/meetings/past/2784/

On the physical foundations of interstellar space travel
https://buchshop.bod.de/on-the-physical-foundations-of-interstellar-space-travel-erik-kolek-9783759731159

All-optical damping forces enhanced by metasurfaces for stable relativistic lightsail propulsion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14486

The Detection and Investigation of Exoplanets with MASTER Global Network Telescopes
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772924700513

Radial velocity homogeneous analysis of M dwarfs observed with HARPS – I. Exoplanet detection and candidates
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa46570-23/aa46570-23.html

High-energy spectra of LTT 1445A and GJ 486 reveal flares and activity
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa50107-24/aa50107-24.html

TOI-2379 b & TOI-2384 b: Two super-Jupiter mass planets transiting low-mass host stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2034/7745505

On the wormhole-warp drive correspondence
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/08/061

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Limit on Relativistic Interstellar Objects near Earth
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad73da

No Thick Atmosphere on the Terrestrial Exoplanet Gl 486b
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383460711_No_Thick_Atmosphere_on_the_Terrestrial_Exoplanet_Gl_486b

The Application of Machine Learning in Tidal Evolution Simulation of Star-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16212

Impact of oxygen fugacity on atmospheric structure and emission spectra of ultra hot rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16548

August 29, 2024 updates

Simulating AI-Extraterrestrial Communication: Exploring Theoretical Models and Experimental Approaches
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383275551_Simulating_AI-Extraterrestrial_Communication_Exploring_Theoretical_Models_and_Experimental_Approaches

Emergent AI Phenomena: The First Signs of Communication with Unknown Civilizations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383275384_Emergent_AI_Phenomena_The_First_Signs_of_Communication_with_Unknown_Civilizations

Phosphorus Availability from Olivine for Biospheres
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2024.1441187/abstract

On Christianity and Notions about Extraterrestrials: in the Labyrinth of Multiplicity, Eschatology, Myths and Historical Consciousness
https://www.unipo.sk/public/media/31344/Theologos2024-1.pdf#page=92

A unified framework for global auroral morphologies of different planets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02270-3

Alternative Pathways in Astrobiology: Reviewing and Synthesizing Contingency and Non-Biomolecular Origins of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/9/1069

Fate of a remnant solid disk around an eccentric giant planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49897-24/aa49897-24.html

Surviving in the Hot-Neptune Desert: The Discovery of the Ultrahot Neptune TOI-3261b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad60be

On the Dynamical Erasure of Initial Conditions in Multi-planetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad7380

The Way To Circumbinary Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15307

Can metal-rich worlds form by giant impacts?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15340

Low abundances of TiO and VO on the Dayside of KELT-9 b: Insights from Ground-Based Photometric Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15698

Atmospheric retrievals suggest the presence of a secondary atmosphere and possible sulfur species on L 98-59 d from JWST NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15707

Hints of a sulfur-rich atmosphere around the 1.6 R⊕ Super-Earth L98-59 d from JWST NIRSpec G395H transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15855

August 28, 2024 updates

Alternative Pathways in Astrobiology: Reviewing and Synthesizing Contingency and Non-Biomolecular Origins of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/9/1069

Surviving in the Hot-Neptune Desert: The Discovery of the Ultrahot Neptune TOI-3261b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad60be

No Thick Atmosphere on the Terrestrial Exoplanet Gl 486b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15123

Warm Jupiters around M-dwarfs are great opportunities for extensive chemical, cloud and haze characterisation with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15137

All-optical damping forces enhanced by metasurfaces for stable relativistic lightsail propulsion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14486

\textit{Searching for GEMS:} Characterizing Six Giant Planets around Cool Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14694

August 27, 2024 updates

Conceptual design of the satellite payload for the JASMINE mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13092/130920A/Conceptual-design-of-the-satellite-payload-for-the-JASMINE-mission/10.1117/12.3018609.short

Progress in the Earth 2.0 (ET) space mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13092/1309218/Progress-in-the-Earth-20-ET-space-mission/10.1117/12.3018669.short

Getting to know the neighbours: Earth analogues in Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN space telescope
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13092/3019256/Getting-to-know-the-neighbours–Earth-analogues-in-Alpha/10.1117/12.3019256.short

The Big Fringe Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01386

Exploring the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b – Constraints on atmospheric chemistry and dynamics from a joint retrieval of VLT/CRIRES+ and space photometric data
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50064-24/aa50064-24.html

Photo-dynamical characterisation of the TOI-178 resonant chain – Exploring the robustness of transit-timing variations and radial velocity mass characterisations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50212-24/aa50212-24.html

Light Scattering Measurements of KCl Particles as an Exoplanet Cloud Analog
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad6569

Analysis Of the Exoplanet Searching Based on Transit and Radial Velocity Method
https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HSET/article/view/24060

A Review of Exoplanet Detection Processes using Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
https://www.ijcaonline.org/archives/volume186/number36/a-review-of-exoplanet-detection-processes-using-artificial-intelligence-and-neural-networks/

Two Novel Hot Jupiter Formation Pathways: How White Dwarf Kicks Shape the Hot Jupiter Population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13307

A Comprehensive Analysis Spitzer 4.5 μm Phase Curve of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13308

Earths within Reach: Evaluation of Strategies for Mitigating Solar Variability using 3.5 years of NEID Sun-as-a-Star Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13318

JWST Thermal Emission of the Terrestrial Exoplanet GJ 1132b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13340

Four HD 209458 b transits through CRIRES+: Detection of H2O and non-detections of C2H2, CH4, and HCN
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13536

Modeling Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 μm Eclipse Depths for the Inflated Hot Jupiter in the Evolved Binary System HD 202772
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13680

Simulating Gravitational Microlensing Events by TESS: Predictions on Statistics and Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14231

Efficiently Searching for Close-in Companions around Young M Dwarfs using a Multi-year PSF Library
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14268

Revisiting the Borde-Traub focal plane wavefront estimation technique for exoplanet direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14286