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 19, 2024 updates

Astronism, Cosmism and Cosmodeism: An Analysis of the Space Religions espousing Transcension
https://philpapers.org/rec/ACALQC

Antimatter and its Application
https://www.deanfrancispress.com/index.php/te/article/view/958

Illumination of a Planet by a Black Hole Moon as a Technological Signature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad6e7a

Arecibo Wow! I: An Astrophysical Explanation for the Wow! Signal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513

Semi-empirical Estimates of the Cosmic Planet Formation Rate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08611

August 16, 2024 updates

A Hidden Implication of the Fermi Paradox: The Emergence of Intelligent Civilizations from the Complex Universe
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/84rwq

SmallSat Technology Accelerated Maturation Platform-1: a proposal to advance ultraviolet science, workforce, and technology for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-10/issue-3/034004/SmallSat-Technology-Accelerated-Maturation-Platform-1–a-proposal-to/10.1117/1.JATIS.10.3.034004.full

Extraterrestrial Life: Plasmas, UAP, Shape Shifters, Replicons, Thunderstorms, Unidentified Ocean Phenomenon
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383034675_Extraterrestrial_Life_Plasmas_UAP_Shape_Shifters_Replicons_Thunderstorms_Unidentified_Ocean_Phenomenon

A Laboratory Model of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation of Tidally Locked Exoplanets
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/15/8/982

Investing in the Unrivaled Potential of Wide-Separation Sub-Jupiter Exoplanet Detection and Characterisation with JWST — Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST White Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07722

The Unrealised Interdisciplinary Advantage of Observing High Mass Transiting Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs — Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST White Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07723

From the Shadows: The Impact of Nightside Thermal Emission on Ultra-hot Jupiter Transmission Spectra Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07739

August 14, 2024 updates

Novel Atmospheric Dynamics Shape the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone around White Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad54c1

Impacts on Ocean Worlds Are Sufficiently Frequent and Energetic to Be of Astrobiological Importance
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad656b

Detecting exoplanet transits with the next generation of X-ray telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06417

Optimizing TESS-related Exoplanet Observation: A Systematic Approach to Scheduling JWST SOSS and BOTS Templates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07042

Dwellers in the Deep: Biological Consequences of Dark Oxygen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06841

Lessons from Hubble and Spitzer: 1D Self-Consistent Model Grids for 19 Hot Jupiter Emission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06442

TESERACT: Twin Earth SEnsoR Astrophotonic CubesaT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06454

August 13, 2024 updates

Computational Study for Tissue-Specific Dosimetric Quantities of Secondary Radiation for Mars Exploration
https://www.proquest.com/openview/d14e2f21194fe54595c1e4d94123a5d4

Frequency Shift in Binary Microlensing
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1938/7732048

Different Planetary Eccentricity-period (PEP) Distributions of Small and Giant Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5ffa

Evidence for Primordial Alignment: Insights from Stellar Obliquity Measurements for Compact Sub-Saturn Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad61d8

TOI-1408: Discovery and Photodynamical Modeling of a Small Inner Companion to a Hot Jupiter Revealed by Transit Timing Variations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad65fd

The Limits of Interstellar AI: Challenges of Transmitting Human-Centric Intelligence to an Alien Civilization
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382996740_The_Limits_of_Interstellar_AI_Challenges_of_Transmitting_Human-Centric_Intelligence_to_an_Alien_Civilization

Revealing the Fate of Exoplanet Systems: Asteroseismic Identification of Host Star in the Red Clump or Red Giant Branch
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383036573_Revealing_the_Fate_of_Exoplanet_Systems_Asteroseismic_Identification_of_Host_Star_in_the_Red_Clump_or_Red_Giant_Branch

Climate Regimes Across the Habitable Zone: a Comparison of Synchronous Rocky M- and K-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05951

Pebble-driven migration of low-mass planets in the 2D regime of pebble accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06076

On the potential origin of the circumbinary planet Delorme 1 (AB)b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06231

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). II. An Observation Strategy for the Target Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06338

Mass determination of two Jupiter-sized planets orbiting slightly evolved stars: TOI-2420 b and TOI-2485 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05612