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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September 24, 2024 updates

On the physical foundations of interstellar space travel
https://buchshop.bod.de/on-the-physical-foundations-of-interstellar-space-travel-erik-kolek-9783759731159

On the technological foundations of interstellar space travel
https://buchshop.bod.de/on-the-technological-foundations-of-interstellar-space-travel-erik-kolek-9783759785237

Life on alien planets probably wouldn’t experience day and night – here’s how that may change evolution
https://www.space.com/life-alien-planets-wouldnt-experience-day-and-night-evolution

How AI is helping us search the universe for alien technosignatures
https://www.space.com/how-ai-is-helping-search-for-alien-technosignatures

Evidence for morning-to-evening limb asymmetry on the cool low-density exoplanet WASP-107 b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02367-9

Suppression of giant planet formation around low-mass stars in clustered environments
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa51051-24/aa51051-24.html

Stellar Characterization and Chemical Abundances of Exoplanet-hosting M Dwarfs from APOGEE Spectra: Future JWST Targets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5004

Sculpting of Exoplanetary Systems Driven by a Misaligned Disk and Stellar Oblateness: Origin of Perpendicular Orbits in HD 3167
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad77d6

The evolutionary divergence of Mars, Venus, and Earth
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780323997621001042

Impacting Atmospheres: How Late-Stage Pollution Alters Exoplanet Composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13820

Comparative Planetology of Magnetic Effects in Ultrahot Jupiters: Trends in High Resolution Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13840

A High-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey of Directly Imaged Companion Hosts: I. Determination of diagnostic stellar abundances for planet formation and composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14239

Self-sustaining living habitats in extraterrestrial environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14477

Partial disruption of a planet around a white dwarf: the effect of perturbation from the remnant planet on the accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14717

September 23, 2024 Updates

Review on Past, Present and Future Rocket Propulsion Technologies
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384019582_Review_on_Past_Present_and_Future_Rocket_Propulsion_Technologies

Matter Geometry Coupling and Casimir Wormhole Geometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12160

Viewing the PLATO LOPS2 Field Through the Lenses of TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13039

Exoplanet Demographics: Physical and Orbital Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13062

White Dwarf Systems: the Composition of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13294

Discovery of small ultra-short-period planets orbiting Kepler KG dwarfs with GPU phase folding and deep learning
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2155/7762975

Abiotic Production of Dimethyl Sulfide, Carbonyl Sulfide, and Other Organosulfur Gases via Photochemistry: Implications for Biosignatures and Metabolic Potential
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad74da

September 20, 2024 updates

The Role of Nanotechnology in Space Exploration and Colonization
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-6184-5_12

Synthetic Humanity: The Role of Advanced AI in Resynthesizing Human Life on Mars and Beyond
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383878805_Synthetic_Humanity_The_Role_of_Advanced_AI_in_Resynthesizing_Human_Life_on_Mars_and_Beyond

Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres – An Introductory Overview
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031752070

Earth-like-planet-hosting systems: Architecture and properties
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49330-24/aa49330-24.html

Data availability and requirements relevant for the Ariel space mission and other exoplanet atmosphere applications
https://academic.oup.com/rasti/advance-article/doi/10.1093/rasti/rzae039/7762190

MODEL&CO: Exoplanet detection in angular differential imaging by learning across multiple observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2174/7762210

Single-star Warm-Jupiter Systems Tend to Be Aligned, Even around Hot Stellar Hosts: No Teff–λ Dependency
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad7469

Treatise on Geochemistry – Volume 7: Worlds Beyond
https://www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780323997638/treatise-on-geochemistry

Life in the Bubble: How a nearby supernova left ephemeral footprints on the cosmic-ray spectrum and indelible imprints on life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12307

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. I. Confirmation of a 31-day planet orbiting HD 86728
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12315

September 19, 2024 updates

Dynamics of Two Planets near a 2:1 Resonance: Case Studies of Known and Synthetic Exosystems on a Grid of Initial Configurations
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/10/9/374

TESS Investigation—Demographics of Young Exoplanets (TI-DYE). II. A Second Giant Planet in the 17 Myr System HIP 67522
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad77d9

Traversable wormholes in Einstein–Cartan gravity admitting conformal motion
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-024-05622-0

Did WISE detect Dyson Spheres/Structures around Gaia-2MASS-selected stars?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11447

Thermal Evolution of Lava Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11459

Updated forecast for TRAPPIST-1 times of transit for all seven exoplanets incorporating JWST data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11620

Drifts of the sub-stellar points of the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12065

Probing the Possible Causes of the Transit Timing Variation for TrES-2b in TESS Era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12069

Exoplanet accretion monitoring spectroscopic survey (ENTROPY) I. Evidence for magnetospheric accretion in the young isolated planetary-mass object 2MASS J11151597+1937266
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12187

September 18, 2024 updates

Observation of significant photosynthesis in garden cress and cyanobacteria under simulated illumination from a K dwarf star
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/observation-of-significant-photosynthesis-in-garden-cress-and-cyanobacteria-under-simulated-illumination-from-a-k-dwarf-star/18E1D525821108801DBCB99515EBF318

The K2 and TESS Synergy. III. Search and Rescue of the Lost Ephemeris for K2’s First Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad60bf

The Impact of Icy Cometary ‘Impacts’ on Exoplanetary Atmospheres I: Tidally-Locked Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11151

SPORES-HWO. II. Limits on Planetary Companions of Future High-contrast Imaging Targets from >20 Years of HIRES and HARPS Radial Velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10679

Substantial extension of the lifetime of the terrestrial biosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10714

The Spin Zone: Synchronously and Asynchronously Rotating Exoplanets Have Spectral Differences in Transmission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10752

Evolution of gas envelopes and outgassed atmospheres of rocky planets formed via pebble accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11005

Self-oxidation of the atmospheres of rocky planets with implications for the origin of life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11070

Characterisation of TOI-406 as showcase of the THIRSTEE program: A 2-planet system straddling the M-dwarf density gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11083

Quartz Clouds in the Dayside Atmosphere of the Quintessential Hot Jupiter HD 189733 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11395