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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December 20, 2023 updates

Development of Solar Sail for Interstellar Exploration
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38446-2_22

Astrophysicists publish Kepler Giant Planet Search, an aid to ‘figure out where to find life’
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-astrophysicists-publish-kepler-giant-planet.html

Parameterizing pressure–temperature profiles of exoplanet atmospheres with neural networks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/01/aa46390-23/aa46390-23.html

Bayesian Analysis for Remote Biosignature Identification on exoEarths (BARBIE). II. Using Grid-based Nested Sampling in Coronagraphy Observation Simulations for O2 and O3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0fde

Geochemical and Photochemical Constraints on S[IV] Concentrations in Natural Waters on Prebiotic Earth
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023AV000926

The flipped orbit of KELT-19Ab inferred from the symmetric TESS transit light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11815

The distribution of impactor core material during large impacts on Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12132

Free-floating or wide-orbit? Keck adaptive-optics observations of free-floating planet candidates detected with gravitational microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04610

December 19, 2023 updates

A New Scenario for the Formation of Planetary Atmospheres
https://sf2a.eu/proceedings/2023/2023sf2a.conf.381H.pdf

How Formation and Evolution Impact the Abundances of Biocritical Elements in Planets and Planetary Environments
https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/10108?ln=en

Traversable wormhole solutions admitting Karmarkar condition in Lyra manifold
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04763-y

Oxidation of iron by giant impact and its implication on the formation of reduced atmosphere in the early Earth
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi6096

Effect of stellar wind on the efficiency of plasma radio emission from exoplanet HD189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10121

Atmospheres as a Window to Rocky Exoplanet Surfaces
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11133

December 18, 2023 Updates

Exploring the Development of Astrobiology Scientific Research through Bibliometric Network Analysis: A Focus on Biomining and Bioleaching
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/13/6/797

The Fabric of Reality: Space, Time, and the Fundamental Laws of Physics
https://jest.com.pk/index.php/jest/article/view/14

The Innovators: Pioneers in Engineering and Technological Breakthroughs
https://jest.com.pk/index.php/jest/article/view/15

Bioenergetic Modeling of Methanogens In Europa’s Subsurface Ocean Environment
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023DPS….5531510G/abstract

Secular Dynamics of Compact Three-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10031

First exploration of the runaway greenhouse transition with a 3D General Circulation Model
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/12/aa46936-23/aa46936-23.html

December 14, 2023 updates

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Detection and Characterization of Anomalous Transits in Kepler Lightcurves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acfa6c

The California Legacy Survey. IV. Lonely, Poor, and Eccentric: A Comparison between Solitary and Neighborly Gas Giants
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/acffc0

Outcomes of Sub-Neptune Collisions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07648

Inferring Atmospheric Properties of Exoplanets with Flow Matching and Neural Importance Sampling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08295

Optimising spectroscopic observations of transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08320

DEATHSTAR: A system for confirming planets and identifying false positive signals in TESS data using ground-based time domain surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08373