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 01, 2023 updates

Questioning relativity?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372588507_Questioning_relativity

Suspended Animation For Deep Space Flight
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372649407_SUSPENDED_ANIMATION_FOR_DEEP_SPACE_FLIGHT

Core-envelope Decoupling Drives Radial Shear Dynamos in Cool Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acd780

Organic Catalytic Activity as a Method for Agnostic Life Detection https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0022

Relation between the moment of inertia and the k2 Love number of fluid extra-solar planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46352-23/aa46352-23.html

Life and Language Beyond Earth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/life-and-language-beyond-earth/7FBD98E5DD79CE46BC50A78AD1CBDCF5

Experimental simulations of cosmic impacts on rubrene nanoparticles in the water environment reveal the potentiality of condensed phases of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to generate prebiotic molecules https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103523003044

ExoGemS High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-76b with GRACES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16738

Enhanced Size Uniformity for Near-Resonant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15875

July 31, 2023 Updates

Can XunTian Tai Chi intervention improve the level of emotional regulation of crew members in the Controlled Ecological Life Support System?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666337623000471

Nature-Inspired Concepts for High-Power Electric Propulsion Systems
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15361055.2023.2227504

Confidence of Life Detection: The Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0084

Complete X-ray census of M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood I. GJ 745 AB: Coronal-hole stars in the 10 pc sample
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/08/aa46470-23/aa46470-23.html
Signal Synchronization Strategies and Time Domain SETI with Gaia DR3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acde79

Close Encounters of the Interstellar Kind: Exploring the Capture of Interstellar Objects in Near Earth Orbit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2317/7233732

Measuring Tidal Dissipation in Giant Planets from Tidal Circularization
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2298/7233104

Magnetic winding and turbulence in ultra-hot Jupiters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2311/7233742

Chasing rainbows and ocean glints: Inner working angle constraints for the habitable worlds observatory
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad2127/7231835

The Space Experiment of the Exo-ecosystem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15562

July 28, 2023 updates

Rocky sub-Neptunes formed by pebble accretion: Rain of rocks from polluted envelopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14674

On the survivability of a population of gas giant planets on wide orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14908

First on-sky results of a FIOS prototype, a Fabry Perot Based Instrument for Oxygen Searches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14947

Investigating the visible phase-curve variability of 55 Cnc e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06085

Probing reflection from aerosols with the near-infrared dayside spectrum of WASP-80b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14399

July 27, 2023 updates

For All Kind: Astrobiology and SETI Beyond “Mankind”
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ezk5c/

The Exo-Jupiter Candidate FL Lyr b in Data of Kepler and TESS Space Missions
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772923050062

The Variable Detection of Atmospheric Escape around the Young, Hot Neptune AU Mic b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ace536

Upper bounds on technoemission rates from 60 years of “silence” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576523003776

Fizzy Super-Earths: Impacts of Magma Composition on the Bulk Density and Structure of Lava Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13726

Modeling the Chromosphere and Transition Region of Planet-hosting Star GJ 436
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13857

OGLE-2019-BLG-0825: Constraints on the Source System and Effect on Binary-lens Parameters arising from a Five Day Xallarap Effect in a Candidate Planetary Microlensing Event
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14274

Can Cold Jupiters Sculpt the Edge-of-the-Multis?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14309

July 26, 2023 updates

Early formation of a water ocean as a function of initial CO2 and H2O contents in a solidifying rocky planet
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007848

A Comparison of the Composition of Planets in Single- and Multi-Planet Systems Orbiting M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13034

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. X. Complete Sample of 2017 Prime-Field Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13359

Revised orbits of the two nearest Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13622