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 28, 2023 updates

The Fatal Absence of Evidence for Extraterrestrial Intelligence and its Consequence for Humanity
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/uckfw

Is the apparent absence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations down to the zoo hypothesis or nothing?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02134-2

Sustained and comparative habitability beyond Earth
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02158-8

Is astrobiology serious science?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02165-9

Mitigating astrometric bias in barycentric correction with PEXO
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3796/7492279

The Kepler Giant Planet Search. I. A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad0cab

Planet-Driven Scatterings of Planetesimals Into a Star: Probability, Timescale and Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10326