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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May 16, 2023 updates

Three Saturn-mass planets transiting F-type stars revealed with TESS and HARPS⋆ TOI-615b, TOI-622b, and TOI-2641b
http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/175607/

New Compound and Hybrid Binding Energy Sputter Model for Modeling Purposes in Agreement with Experimental Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acd056

Spectroscopic follow-up of Gaia exoplanet candidates: Impostor binary stars invade the Gaia DR3 astrometric exoplanet candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08623

Confirmation of sub-solar metallicity for WASP-77Ab from JWST thermal emission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07753

Observing exoplanets from Antarctica in two colours: Set-up and operation of ASTEP+
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08454

Effect of Centrifugal Force on Transmission Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08610

May 15, 2023 Updates

Traversable wormholes with double layer thin shells in quadratic gravity
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-023-03107-6

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – IX. Assessing the impact of clouds on atmospheric retrievals at mid-infrared wavelengths with a Venus-twin exoplanet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/05/aa45655-22/aa45655-22.html

Statistics of Magrathea exoplanets beyond the Main Sequence. Simulating the long-term evolution of circumbinary giant planets with TRES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07057

CHEOPS’s hunt for exocomets: photometric observations of 5 Vul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07578

May 12, 2023 updates

Data structures for photoadsorption within the ExoMol project
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzad014/7160480

The Infrared Colors of 51 Eridani b: Micrometeoroid Dust or Chemical Disequilibrium?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acca7a

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://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/accf86

The SNR of a Transit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06790

TOI-2498 b: A hot bloated super-Neptune within the Neptune desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06950

May 11, 2023 updates

Electroplasma Drive for Space Propulsion: Harnessing Magnetospheric Plasma Flows
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370496776_Electroplasma_Drive_for_Space_Propulsion_Harnessing_Magnetospheric_Plasma_Flows

Behaviour and the Origin of Organisms
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-023-09635-0

A reflective, metal-rich atmosphere for GJ 1214b from its JWST phase curve
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06159-5

De novo evolution of macroscopic multicellularity
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06052-1

A 1.55 R⊕ habitable-zone planet hosted by TOI-715, an M4 star near the ecliptic South Pole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06206

DMPP-3: confirmation of short-period S-type planet(s) in a compact eccentric binary star system, and warnings about long-period RV planet detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.06263

The Hazy and Metal-Rich Atmosphere of GJ 1214 b Constrained by Near and Mid-Infrared Transmission Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05697

May 10, 2023 updates

Toward a population synthesis of disks and planets – II. Confronting disk models and observations at the population level
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/05/aa44767-22/aa44767-22.html

Exoplanet Volatile Carbon Content as a Natural Pathway for Haze Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05056

Beyond Mediocrity: How Common is Life?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05395

Could AI be the Great Filter? What Astrobiology can Teach the Intelligence Community about Anthropogenic Risks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05653