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 30, 2024 updates

Exoplanet Imaging Along a Time-Varying Focal Line Using Tethered Spacecraft
https://www.proquest.com/openview/8272beb1f04876f1dbdfe41d0a8d2d5f

On Radiative-Convective Climate Modeling for Cloudy Terrestrial Worlds
https://www.proquest.com/openview/a4266deba72bc51048be7e0611b8a883

Ideas for the Speed of Light-Viable Space Travel
https://peercite.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Quantum-Science-Special-Issue.pdf

Stability of lower dimensional counter-rotating thin-shell wormholes with scalar hair
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-62590-2

TOI-837 b: Characterisation, formation, and evolutionary history of an infant warm Saturn-mass planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50679-24/aa50679-24.html

TOI-2015 b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad55ea

Black holes, warp drives, and energy conditions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269324004684

Habitability of an exoplanet based on stellar wind
https://www.ewadirect.com/proceedings/tns/article/view/14209

On the suppression of giant planet formation around low-mass stars in clustered environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19018

Machine-assisted classification of potential biosignatures in earth-like exoplanets using low signal-to-noise ratio transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19167

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Magnesium and silicon abundances of K7-M5.5 stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19969

Disk and atmosphere composition of multi-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20117

Multiplicity of stars with planets in the solar neighbourhood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20138

July 29, 2024 Updates

Innovative Hydrogen Harvesting System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2024-85485

An ultrafast algorithm for ultrafast spectroscopy
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4579424/v1

TOI-2015 b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad55ea

Planetary and Solar Electromagnetic Lensing (SEL), Geometry, Astrophysics for Exoplanet Imaging
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4925

Atmospheric Mining in the Outer Solar System: Interplanetary Transfer Vehicles, In-Situ Resource Utilization, and Moon Mining Issues
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4832

Navigating the New Frontier: Ethical, Societal, and Legal Challenges in the Space Economy
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4825

Space Launch System (SLS) for Missions to Outer Planets and Beyond
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4811

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Wavefront Control for Exoplanet Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18733

Project Draupnir: A Space Mission Concept Leveraging ISRU Based Refueling for Extended Exploration of the Asteroid Belt
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4819

Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11c as a Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad675e

TOI-2015 b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad55ea

Variations in the Radius Distribution of Single- and Compact Multiple-transiting Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad58da

July 26, 2024 updates

Can Chirality Answer Whether We Are Alone?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chir.23708

exoTEDRF: An EXOplanet Transit and Eclipse Data Reduction Framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17541

Climate Transition to Temperate Nightside at High Atmosphere Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17600

TOI-1408: Discovery and Photodynamical Modeling of a Small Inner Companion to a Hot Jupiter Revealed by TTVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17798

GJ 238 b: A 0.57 Earth Radius Planet Orbiting an M2.5 Dwarf Star at 15.2 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18199

July 25, 2024 updates

This glowing speck is a freezing exoplanet six times the size of Jupiter
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02440-3

Machine learning for exoplanet detection in high-contrast spectroscopy: Combining cross-correlation maps and deep learning on medium-resolution integral-field spectra
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382522636_Machine_learning_for_exoplanet_detection_in_high-contrast_spectroscopy_Combining_cross-correlation_maps_and_deep_learning_on_medium-resolution_integral-field_spectra

Exo-NINJA at Subaru: fiber-fed spectro-imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar disks at R∼4000
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16746

KMT-2021-BLG-2609Lb and KMT-2022-BLG-0303Lb: Microlensing planets identified through signals produced by major-image perturbations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17002

Climate Change in Hell: Long-Term Variation in Transits of the Evaporating Planet K2-22b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17372

July 24, 2024 updates

The GAPS programme at TNG – LVII. TOI-5076b: A warm sub-Neptune planet orbiting a thin-to-thick-disk transition star in a wide binary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49082-23/aa49082-23.html

Mind the trap – Non-negligible effect of volatile trapping in ice on C/O ratios in protoplanetary disks and exoplanetary atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa50405-24/aa50405-24.html

Resonant chains in triple-planet systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49463-24/aa49463-24.html

Exoplanets Across Galactic Stellar Populations with PLATO: Estimating Exoplanet Yields Around FGK Stars for the Thin Disk, Thick Disk and Stellar Halo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15917

Toward Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy Using JWST/MIRI’s Medium Resolution Spectrometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15937

Modeling Multiple Radius Valley Emergence Mechanisms With Multi-Transiting Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15979

Dust rings trap protoplanets on eccentric orbits and get consumed by them
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16546