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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March 02, 2023 updates

The Fundamental Policy of First Contact
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202302.0480/v1

Planetary population synthesis and the emergence of four classes of planetary system architectures
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03784-x

Traversable wormhole without exotic matter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00724

Direct discovery of the inner exoplanet in the HD 206893 system – Evidence for deuterium burning in a planetary-mass companion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa44727-22/aa44727-22.html

A Bayesian Analysis of Technological Intelligence in Land and Oceans https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb6fa

Coplanar Circumbinary Planets Can Be Unstable to Large Tilt
Oscillations in the Presence of an Inner Polar Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acbcc9

Experimental study of frost detectability on planetary surfaces using multicolor photometry and polarimetry
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103523000805

Planetary line-to-accretion luminosity scaling relations: Extrapolating to higher-order hydrogen lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00011

Spin evolution of Venus-like planets subjected to gravitational and thermal tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00084

Dynamical Evolution of Closely Packed Multiple Planetary Systems Subject to Atmospheric Mass-Loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00397

New models of reflection spectra for terrestrial exoplanets: Present and prebiotic Earth orbiting around stars of different spectral types
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00540

The TESS Triple-9 Catalog II: a new set of 999 uniformly-vetted exoplanet candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00624

The occurrence rate of giant planets orbiting low-mass stars with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00659

March 01, 2023 updates

How did life begin? One key ingredient is coming into view
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00574-4

Exoplanet Exploration – Planets Beyond Our Solar System
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/

Astrobiology at NASA – Life in the Universe
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/

Removing Traces of Life in Lab Helps NASA Scientists Study Its Origins
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/removing-traces-of-life-in-lab-helps-nasa-scientists-study-its-origins

VPNEP: Detailed characterization of TESS targets around the Northern Ecliptic Pole – I. Survey design, pilot analysis, and initial data release
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45255-22/aa45255-22.html

Hint of an exocomet transit in the CHEOPS light curve of HD 172555 https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45104-22/aa45104-22.html

February 28, 2023 updates

Matter/Anti-Matter Propulsion
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/86283

Photon-sail trajectories to exoplanet Proxima b using heteroclinic connections
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:f1784fa7-2c8c-47fb-b2a9-d79d1153aeef

Feminism and gender in thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/78244FB29F11869A7D4A39017A74549F

Improving circumbinary planet detections by fitting their binary’s apsidal precession
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad607/7059214

Direct Imaging Explorations for Companions around Mid-Late M Stars from the Subaru/IRD Strategic Program
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13354

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. VIII. Complete Sample of 2019 Subprime Field Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13544

Magnetic Effects and 3D Structure in Theoretical High-Resolution Transmission Spectra of Ultrahot Jupiters: the Case of WASP-76b https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13969

February 27, 2023 updates

The Emergence of Astrobiology: A Topic-Modeling Perspective
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2022.0122

Effect of macronutrient levels on Chlorella vulgaris cultivation for long duration spaceflights and space settlements
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576523000954

Observing M Dwarfs UV and optical flares from a CubeSat and their implications for exoplanets habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12566

Evidence for Hidden Nearby Companions to Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.12778

February 24, 2023 updates

Planetary Orbit Eccentricity Trends (POET). I. The Eccentricity–Metallicity Trend for Small Planets Revealed by the LAMOST–Gaia–Kepler Sample
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acb533

The Similar Seven: A Set of Very Alike Exoplanets to Test Correlations between System Parameters and Atmospheric Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb154

The quintuple system 30 Arietis: Comments on orbital stability and habitability
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20230012

NA-SODINN: a deep learning algorithm for exoplanet image detection based on residual noise regimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02854