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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July 7, 2022 updates

Frontiers in Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-022-09622-x

TESS Observations of Kepler Systems with Transit Timing Variations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7396

Predictions for Observable Atmospheres of Trappist-1 Planets from a Fully Coupled Atmosphere–Interior Evolution Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac69cb

Exploring refractory organics in extraterrestrial particles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02537

July 5, 2022 updates

Drake’s Equation and Fermi’s Paradox,Logic Behind the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
http://comenius.susqu.edu/hons/250/weekly_assignments/paths%20of%20science%20revisions/paths-of-science-2/drake%20equation%20and%20fermi’s%20paradox.pdf

Trajectory Analysis and Optimization of Hesperides Mission
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/8/7/364

Initial Components and Abiogenic Homochiral Organic Synthesis Ere the Origin of Life
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir-Zhmakin/publication/361443579_Initial_Components_and_Abiogenic_Homochiral_Organic_Synthesis_Ere_the_Origin_of_Life/links/62b1d3c6d49f803365ae4d5c/Initial-Components-and-Abiogenic-Homochiral-Organic-Synthesis-Ere-the-Origin-of-Life.pdf

Prebiotic Chemistry and Life’s Origin
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78801-749-7

Precise astrometry: Earth Analogs and Beyond
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-022-09860-x

Detecting exoplanets with the false inclusion probability – Comparison with other detection criteria in the context of radial velocities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/07/aa40543-21/aa40543-21.html

Climate Outcomes of Earth-similar Worlds as a Function of Obliquity and Rotation Rate
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6951

The Volatile Carbon-to-oxygen Ratio as a Tracer for the Formation Locations of Interstellar Comets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac75b5

False positives and the challenge of testing the alien hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00634

Searching for Transit Timing Variations and Fitting a New Ephemeris to Transits of TrES-1 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01559

A new method to correct for host star variability in multi-epoch observations of exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01606

July 4, 2022 Updates

Technological Evolution of Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Dyson
Spheres, Warp Drives, Energy Capturing Conquerors
http://journalofastrobiology.com/Extraterrestrial1.pdf

Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Cognitive Evolutionary Perspective
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358629839_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence_A_Cognitive_Evolutionary_Perspective

Implications of Brain Evolution in Cetaceans and Primates for Highly
Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358518729_Implications_of_Brain_Evolution_in_Cetaceans_and_Primates_for_Highly_Intelligent_Extraterrestrial_Life

An Update on the Future Flyby of Gliese 710 to the Solar System Using Gaia DR3: Flyby Parameters Reproduced, Uncertainties Reduced
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac7b95

Mantle mineralogy limits to rocky planet water inventories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00014

Stratospheric Clouds Do Not Impede JWST Transit Spectroscopy for Exoplanets with Earth-Like Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00015

NEOSSat Observations of Three Transiting Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00101