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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June 21, 2023 updates

Cloud behaviour on tidally locked rocky planets from global high-resolution modelling
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02015-8

A Venus in the making? Predictions for JWST observations of the ultracool M-dwarf planet LP 890-9 c
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/524/1/L5/7198492

Gliese 581c: Habitability Unlikely—but not Hopeless Either
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/acdf52

Magnifying NASA Roman GBTDS exoplanet science with coordinated observations by ESA Euclid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10210

RoSETZ: Roman Survey of the Earth Transit Zone — a SETI-optimized survey for habitable-zone exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10202

A re-analysis of equilibrium chemistry in five hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10873

Exoplanet Interior Retrievals: core masses and metallicities from atmospheric abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11354

Rocky planet or water world? Observability of low-density lava world atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10100

On the pollution of white dwarfs by exo-Oort cloud comets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10102

June 16, 2023 updates

Origin of biological homochirality by crystallization of an RNA precursor on a magnetic surface
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg8274

Chirality-Induced Magnetization of Magnetite by an RNA Precursor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09095

Quantitative correlation of refractory elemental abundances between rocky exoplanets and their host stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/06/aa45387-22/aa45387-22.html

Temperature-chemistry coupling in the evolution of gas giant atmospheres driven by stellar flares
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1734/7199175

A Mini-Neptune Orbiting the Metal-poor K Dwarf BD+29 2654
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08179

Two sub-Neptunes around the M dwarf TOI-1470
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08516

An irradiated-Jupiter analogue hotter than the Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08672

The Origin of Universality in the Inner Edges of Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08822

Inner Planetary System Gap Complexity is a Predictor of Outer Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08846

ExoMDN: Rapid characterization of exoplanet interior structures with Mixture Density Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09002

June 15, 2023 updates

Future space experiment platforms for astrobiology and astrochemistry research
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-023-00292-1

Hydrosphere: Modeling the planetary structure of ocean planets and icy moons
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1199&context=mjpa

Astrophysically sourced quantum coherent photonic signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06676

Vanadium oxide and a sharp onset of cold-trapping on a giant exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06134-0

Hadaean to Palaeoarchaean stagnant-lid tectonics revealed by zircon magnetism
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06024-5

Stability of nucleic acid bases in concentrated sulfuric acid: Implications for the habitability of Venus’ clouds
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220007120

Awesome SOSS: Transmission spectroscopy of WASP-96b with NIRISS/SOSS
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1762/7198120

Tidal Evolution of Close-in Exoplanets and Host Stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad1777/7198123

Wormhole solutions in f(R,Lm) gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907323000953