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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August 22, 2023 updates

Fully fluorinated non-carbon compounds NF3 and SF6 as ideal technosignature gases
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-023-39972-z

Planetary evolution with atmospheric photoevaporation – II. Fitting the slope of the radius valley by combining boil-off and XUV-driven escape
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa42205-21/aa42205-21.html

ACCESS, LRG-BEASTS, and MOPSS: Featureless Optical Transmission Spectra of WASP-25b and WASP-124b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace777

Confirmation of Subsolar Metallicity for WASP-77Ab from JWST Thermal Emission Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ace828

A sign in space: An interdisciplinary exploration of the potential reception of an extraterrestrial signal
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523004344

3D Printing for Space Food Applications: Advancements, Challenges, and Prospects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552423000603

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). X. Detectability of currently known exoplanets and synergies with future IR/O/UV reflected-starlight imaging missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09646

Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization via Transit Spectra Classification
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202308.1385/v1

Asteroseismology and Spectropolarimetry of the Exoplanet Host Star λ Serpentis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09808

Can a binary star host three giant circumbinary planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09841

A Non-Detection of Iron in the First High-Resolution Emission Study of the Lava Planet 55 Cnc e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10378

Beyond 2-D Mass-Radius Relationships: A Nonparametric and Probabilistic Framework for Characterizing Planetary Samples in Higher Dimensions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10615

PyATMOS: A Scalable Grid of Hypothetical Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10624

Transit Timing Variations in the three-planet system: TOI-270
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10763

Are we visible to advanced alien civilizations?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08689

August 21, 2023 Updates

Study of atmospheric ion escape from exoplanet TOI-700 d: Venus analogs
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JA031405

Evidence for Misalignment between Debris Disks and Their Host Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/accf9d

Understanding the Capability of Future Direct-imaging Observations to Quantify Atmospheric Chemical Effects of Stellar Proton Events
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace7b8

CHEOPS and TESS view of the ultra-short period super-Earth TOI-561 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08687

A 5MJup Non-Transiting Coplanar Circumbinary Planet Around Kepler-1660AB
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09255

A magnetically driven disc wind in the inner disc of PDS 70
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09554

A Six-Planet Resonance Chain in K2-138?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09588

Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09617

August 17, 2023 updates

Stoichiometric model of a fully closed bioregenerative life support system for autonomous long-duration space missions
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2023.1198689/full

An imaged 15 MJup companion within a hierarchical quadruple system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa47044-23/aa47044-23.html

The GAPS programme at TNG – XLV. HI Balmer lines transmission spectroscopy and NLTE atmospheric modelling of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46787-23/aa46787-23.html

A mineralogical reason why all exoplanets cannot be equally oxidising
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2486/7243394

GJ 9404 b: A Confirmed Eccentric Planet, and not a Candidate
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acefc5

Cylindrical Wormholes and Electromagnetic Field
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321323002572

Bound circumplanetary orbits under the influence of radiation pressure: Application to dust in directly imaged exoplanet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07994

Infrared spectra of TiO2 clusters for hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08297

Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on Earth’s biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08470

Reflected spectroscopy of small exoplanets III: probing the UV band to measure biosignature gasses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08490

August 16, 2023 updates

Secular Orbital Dynamics of Exoplanet Satellite Candidates
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094623030061

Free-floating Planet Mass Function from MOA-II 9 yr Survey toward the Galactic Bulge
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace688

Terrestrial- and Neptune-mass Free-Floating Planet Candidates from the MOA-II 9 yr Galactic Bulge Survey
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace689

Searching for Novel Chemistry in Exoplanetary Atmospheres using Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07604

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Behaviour of the Paschen lines during flares and quiescence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07685

Tidal interactions shape period ratios in planetary systems with three-body resonant chains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07839

SOLES VII: The Spin-Orbit Alignment of WASP-106 b, a Warm Jupiter Along the Kraft Break
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07532

The Mantis Network IV: A titanium cold-trap on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.12847