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 11, 2023 updates

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – XI. Phase-space synthesis decomposition for planet detection and characterization
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/10/aa45927-23/aa45927-23.html

Metallicity and Spectral Evolution of WASP 39b: The Limited Role of Hydrodynamic Escape
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acfaec

Searching for candidates of orbital decays among transit exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107623001318

Active Metasurfaces for Non-Rigid Light Sail Interstellar Optical Communication
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adts.202300359

Floating binary planets from ejections during close stellar encounters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06016

Planetary system architectures with low-mass inner planets: Direct imaging exploration of mature systems beyond 1 au
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06035

Can one hear supercontinents in the tides of ocean planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06635

Using a quench level approximation to estimate the effect of metallicity on N-bearing species abundances in H2-dominated atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06796

October 10, 2023 updates

Could AI find alien life faster than humans, and would it tell us?
https://www.space.com/could-ai-find-alien-life-faster-than-humans

Characterizing the Near-infrared Spectra of Flares from TRAPPIST-1 During JWST Transit Spectroscopy Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03792

A review of planetary systems around HD 99492, HD 147379, and HD 190007 with HARPS-N
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/10/aa46887-23/aa46887-23.html

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – X. Detectability of currently known exoplanets and synergies with future IR/O/UV reflected-starlight imaging missions
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/10/aa47027-23/aa47027-23.html

TOI-5126: A hot super-Neptune and warm Neptune pair discovered by TESS and CHEOPS
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3036/7303305

The Feasibility of Detecting Biosignatures in the TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System with JWST
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acf488

Direct Measurements of Stellar Masses with the Habitable World Observatory
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad0038

Tidal migration of exoplanets around M-dwarfs: frequency-dependent tidal dissipation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04588

A Complex Systems Approach to Exoplanet Atmospheric Chemistry: New Prospects for Ruling Out the Possibility of Alien Life-As-We-Know-It
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05359

Investigation on the Orbital Period Variations of NN Ser: Implications for the Hypothetical Planets, the Applegate Mechanism and the Orbital Stability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05465

Planetary companions orbiting the M dwarfs GJ 724 and GJ 3988. A CARMENES and IRD collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05599

WD0141-675: A case study on how to follow-up astrometric planet candidates around white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05778

October 09, 2023 Updates

GJ 806 (TOI-4481): A bright nearby multi-planetary system with a transiting hot low-density super-Earth
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/10/aa44261-22/aa44261-22.html

3D Global Simulations of Accretion onto Gap-opening Planets: Implications for Circumplanetary Disc Structures and Accretion Rates
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3049/7296156?searchresult=1

Not So Fast Kepler-1513: A Perturbing Planetary Interloper in the Exomoon Corridor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03802

October 06, 2023 updates

The Activity of a Solar-Type Star TOI-1422 and Mass Loss of the Atmosphere of the Planet TOI-1422b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772923070089

Application of the Thermodynamics of Radiation to Dyson Spheres as Work Extractors and Computational Engines and Their Observational Consequences
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acf44f

JWST transmission spectroscopy of HD 209458b: a super-solar metallicity, a very low C/O, and no evidence of CH4, HCN, or C2H2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03245

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries I: Target Selection using Hipparcos and Gaia proper motion anomalies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03299

On the effect of tidal deformation on planetary phase curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03553

Where are the Water Worlds? Identifying the Exo-water-worlds Using Models of Planet Formation and Atmospheric Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03593

Methods for Incorporating Model Uncertainty into Exoplanet Atmospheric Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03713

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