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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April 24, 2023 updates

Mechanical Energy Metamaterials in Interstellar Travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079642523000646

Exoplanet Nodal Precession Induced by Rapidly Rotating Stars: Impacts on Transit Probabilities and Biases
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09890

There’s more to life than O2: Simulating the detectability of a range of molecules for ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy of transiting terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10683

Exploring the stellar surface phenomena of WASP-52 and HAT-P-30 with ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11022

April 21, 2023 Updates

Conclusive Evidence for a Population of Water Worlds around M Dwarfs Remains Elusive
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acc86f

Planet Eclipse Mapping with Long-term Baseline Drifts
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acc65a

Statistical implications of the n = 1 observation of 1I/‘Oumuamua
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slad049/7134080

An Interferometric SETI Observation of Kepler-111 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1151/7134084

Beyond mediocrity: How common is life?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1155/7134082

Giant planet engulfment by evolved giant stars: light curves, asteroseismology, and survivability
https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new

April 20, 2023 updates

Revisiting the trajectory of the interstellar object’Oumuamua: preference for a radially directed non-gravitational acceleration?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06964

Existence proof of librational invariant tori in an averaged model of HD60532 planetary system
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-023-10132-9

X-Ray-luminous Supernovae: Threats to Terrestrial Biospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acc728

Two super-Earths at the edge of the habitable zone of the nearby M dwarf TOI-2095
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09220

Two Warm Super-Earths Transiting the Nearby M Dwarf TOI-2095
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09189

Constellations of co-orbital planets: horseshoe dynamics, long-term stability, transit timing variations, and potential as SETI beacons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09209

April 19, 2023 updates

Metal-rich stars are less suitable for the evolution of life on their planets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37195-4

A physically derived eddy parameterization for giant planet atmospheres with application on hot-Jupiter atmospheres.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1135/7129014

Spinning up a Daze: TESS Uncovers a Hot Jupiter Orbiting the Rapid Rotator TOI-778
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acc3a0

Secular orbital dynamics of the innermost exoplanet of the υ-Andromedæ system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09038

Mapping the Skies of Ultracool Worlds: Detecting Storms and Spots with Extremely Large Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08518

Surface pressure impact on nitrogen-dominated USP super-Earth atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08690

April 18, 2023 updates

Neutrino and EM asterometric detection of habitable exoplanets https://www.bioinformation.net/019/97320630019235.pdf

Geometry as Communication with Nonhuman Intelligences
https://dseti.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Geometry-as-Communication-with-Nonhuman-Intelligences-_-Daniel-Rekshan-_-INS-700.pdf

Linking Methanogenesis in Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Vent Systems to Planetary Spectra: Methane Biosignatures on an Archean-Earth-like Exoplanet
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0127

Carbon monoxide emission lines reveal an inverted atmosphere in the ultra hot Jupiter WASP-33 b consistent with an eastward hot spot
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1103/7127706

Nature of Intense Magnetism and Differential Rotation in Convective Dynamos of M-dwarf Stars with Tachoclines
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acac78

A hydrodynamic study of the escape of metal species and excited hydrogen from the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07352

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Nearby Stars’ Close Encounters with the Brightest Earth Transmissions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07400

Observing atmospheric escape in sub-Jovian worlds with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07792

Residual eccentricity of an Earth-like planet orbiting a red giant Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07808

Earth shaped by primordial H2 atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07845