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 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

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