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 08, 2023 updates

A low-eccentricity migration pathway for a 13-h-period Earth analogue in a four-planet system
https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/148283

Orbit-to-ground framework to decode and predict biosignature patterns in terrestrial analogues
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-022-01882-x

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – A long-period planet around GJ 1151 measured with CARMENES and HARPS-N data
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa45053-22/aa45053-22.html

Effect of improved atmospheric opacities in modelling sub-Neptunes – A case study for GJ 1214 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/03/aa41784-21/aa41784-21.html

EDEN Survey: Small Transiting Planet Detection Limits and Constraints on the Occurrence Rates of Planets around Late-M Dwarfs within 15 pc
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acba0b

Review of X-ray pulsar spacecraft autonomous navigation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1000936123000584

Superstoichiometric Alloying of H and Close-Packed Fe-Ni Metal Under High Pressures: Implications for Hydrogen Storage in Planetary Core
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL101155

The Low-Altitude Ionosphere of the Ice Giant Planets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JE007568

Revisiting the Transit Timing and Atmosphere Characterization of the Neptune-mass Planet HAT-P-26 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03610

The young mini-Neptune HD 207496b that is either a naked core or on the verge of becoming one
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03775

March 07, 2023 Updates

Flares, Rotation, Activity Cycles, and a Magnetic Star–Planet Interaction Hypothesis for the Far-ultraviolet Emission of GJ 436
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acbbc8

Superhabitability of High-Obliquity and High-Eccentricity Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02188

The Influence of Tidal Heating on the Habitability of Planets Orbiting White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02217

deep PACO: Combining statistical models with deep learning for exoplanet detection and characterization in direct imaging at high contrast
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02461

Dissipative Capture of Planets Into First-Order Mean-Motion Resonances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02766

Planetary Orbit Eccentricity Trends (POET). I. The Eccentricity-Metallicity Trend for Small Planets Revealed by the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02941

Origin and extent of the opacity challenge for atmospheric retrievals of WASP-39 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03383

March 03, 2023 updates

Nitrogenase resurrection and the evolution of a singular enzymatic mechanism
https://elifesciences.org/articles/85003

Constellations of co-orbital planets: horseshoe dynamics, long-term stability, transit timing variations, and potential as SETI beacons
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad643/7068089

Evolution of the eccentricity and inclination of low-mass planets subjected to thermal forces: a numerical study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00867

A Jupiter analogue and a cold Super-Neptune orbiting the solar-twin star HIP 104045
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01358

Robustness Measures for Molecular Detections using High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01496

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