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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November 13, 2023 Updates

Design and Analysis of the Technical Infrastructure for a Self-Sufficient and Sustainable Intergalactic Hub
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Akinwumi/publication/375338016_Design_and_Analysis_of_the_Technical_Infrastructure_for_a_Self-Sufficient_and_Sustainable_Intergalactic_Hub/links/6546eff73fa26f66f4d5fe9e/Design-and-Analysis-of-the-Technical-Infrastructure-for-a-Self-Sufficient-and-Sustainable-Intergalactic-Hub.pdf

Inferring Chemical Disequilibrium Biosignatures for Proterozoic Earth-Like Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06083

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad00bc

November 10, 2023 updates

New spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in f(Q)-gravity theory
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad0820

Exploring the Ability of Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G141 to Uncover Trends in Populations of Exoplanet Atmospheres through a Homogeneous Transmission Survey of 70 Gaseous Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac9f1a

Exoplanet Science From Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04981

Staring at the Sun with the Keck Planet Finder: An Autonomous Solar Calibrator for High Signal-to-Noise Sun-as-a-Star Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05129

The tidal excitation of r modes in a solar type star orbited by a giant planet companion and the effect on orbital evolution II: The effect of tides in the misaligned case
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05271

JWST measurements of 13C, 18O and 17O in the atmosphere of super-Jupiter VHS 1256 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05349

The “Drake equation” of exomoons — a cascade of formation, stability and detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05390

November 9, 2023 updates

Constructing traversable wormhole solutions in f (R, Lm) theory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907323002137

Removing flares from the TRAPPIST-1 picture
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02146-y

The effect of sculpting planets on the steepness of debris-disc inner edges
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3462/7382221

TESS giants transiting giants V – Two hot Jupiters orbiting red-giant hosts
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3449/7382226

Masses, revised radii, and a third planet candidate in the “Inverted” planetary system around TOI-1266
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3450/7382227

Planetary perturbers: Flaring star-planet interactions in Kepler and TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04316

Modelling the Light Curves of Transiting Exomoons: a Zero-order Photodynamic Agent Added to the Transit and Light Curve Modeller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04647

3D Global climate model of an exo-Venus: a modern Venus-like atmosphere for the nearby super-Earth LP 890-9 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04675

Impact of Cosmic Rays on Atmospheric Ion Chemistry and Spectral Transmission Features of TRAPPIST-1e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04684

Systematic Reanalysis of KMTNet microlensing events, Paper I: Updates of the Photometry Pipeline and a New Planet Candidate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04876

November 8, 2023 updates

15NH3 in the atmosphere of a cool brown dwarf
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06813-y

Thermodynamical properties of an ideal gas in a traversable wormhole
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad0421

Tidal Dissipation Regimes Among the Short-Period Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03576

On Earth’s habitability over the Sun’s main-sequence history: joint influence of space weather and Earth’s magnetic field evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03720

Kernel-, mean- and noise-marginalised Gaussian processes for exoplanet transits and H0 inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04153

November 7, 2023 updates

The GAPS programme at TNG – XLVIII. The unusual formation history of V1298 Tau
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa44752-22/aa44752-22.html

Gaia Search for (sub)stellar Companions of Exoplanet Hosts
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3196/7379625

Exploring Climate with Obliquity in a Variable-eccentricity Earth-like World
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0373

A Blind Search for Transit Depth Variability with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02154

On the likely magnesium-iron silicate dusty tails of catastrophically evaporating rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02477

Evidence for Low-Level Dynamical Excitation in Near-Resonant Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02478

The evaporation of planetary atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02965

Fully time-dependent cloud formation from a non-equilibrium gas-phase in exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03244

CHEOPS observations of KELT-20 b/MASCARA-2 b: an aligned orbit and signs of variability from a reflective dayside
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03264

Tidal dissipation in stably stratified and semi-convective regions of rotating giant planets: incorporating Coriolis forces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.03273