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 17, 2024 updates

Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and the Manipulation of Extra Dimensions: A Theoretical Exploration
https://jilvanpinheiro.com/2024/08/20/warp-drive-dark-energy-and-the-manipulation-of-extra-dimensions-a-theoretical-exploration/

The coevolution of migrating planets and their pulsating stars through episodic resonance locking
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-024-02351-3

Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N – VIII. A wide-orbit planetary companion in the hot-Jupiter system HD 118203
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa51084-24/aa51084-24.html

K2-399 b is not a planet – The Saturn that wandered through the Neptune desert is actually a hierarchical eclipsing binary
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa51398-24/aa51398-24.html

The GAPS Programme at TNG – LVIII. Two multi-planet systems with long-period substellar companions around metal-rich stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49456-24/aa49456-24.html

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – XIII. The value of combining thermal emission and reflected light for the characterization of Earth twins
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa50320-24/aa50320-24.html

Modeling Multiple Radius Valley Emergence Mechanisms with Multitransiting Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6903

The Pale Blue Dot: Using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to Simulate Signals from Hyperrealistic Exo-Earths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad6448

Do we Owe our Existence to Gravitational Waves?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269324005860

Advancements in AI Technology and Their Impact on Exoplanet Discovery
https://www.scholarlyreview.org/article/123588-advancements-in-ai-technology-and-their-impact-on-exoplanet-discovery

Classifications for Exoplanet and Exoplanetary Systems — Could it be developed? I. Exoplanet classification
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09666

Tuning the Rate of Tightly Packed Systems To Produce Planet Occurrence Trends with Galactic Height
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10485

Mapping the exo-Neptunian landscape. A ridge between the desert and savanna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10517

September 16, 2024 Updates

A Radio Technosignature Search of TRAPPIST-1 with the Allen Telescope Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08313

Constraining atmospheric composition from the outflow: helium observations reveal the fundamental properties of two planets straddling the radius gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08318

Revisiting the Relationship Between Rocky Exoplanet and Stellar Compositions: Reduced Evidence for a Super-Mercury Population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08361

Minimum Safe Distances for DE-STAR Space Lasers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08873

New Transit Timing Observations of WASP-12b from TESS Sectors 71 and 72
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad7946

Resolving Twin Jets and Twin Disks with JWST and ALMA: The Young WL 20 Multiple System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5da1

September 13, 2024 updates

Topological dressing method for the Einstein–Maxwell equations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-024-03288-8

The MOPYS project: A survey of 70 planets in search of extended He I and H atmospheres – No evidence of enhanced evaporation in young planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49411-24/aa49411-24.html

Exploring the Catastrophic Regime: Thermodynamics and Disintegration in Head-On Planetary Collisions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2134/7756442

Assignment and modeling of 13CH4 spectrum at 298 K in the lower part of the Tetradecad in the 4970–5300 cm−1 range
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407324003030

The inflated, eccentric warm Jupiter TOI-4914 b orbiting a metal-poor star, and the hot Jupiters TOI-2714 b and TOI-2981 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07520

Nightside Clouds on Tidally-locked Terrestrial Planets Mimic Atmosphere-Free Scenarios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07542

JWST COMPASS: The 3-5 Micron Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth L 98-59 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07552

Hot Jupiters are asynchronous rotators
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07651

Transit Timing Variation of K2-237b: Hints Toward Planet Disk Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07865

RISTRETTO: a VLT XAO design to reach Proxima Cen b in the visible
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08052

HD 222237 b: a long period super-Jupiter around a nearby star revealed by radial-velocity and Hipparcos-Gaia astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.08067

September 12, 2024 updates

The MOPYS project: A survey of 70 planets in search of extended He I and H atmospheres – No evidence of enhanced evaporation in young planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49411-24/aa49411-24.html

A new atmospheric characterization of the sub-stellar companion HR 2562 B with JWST/MIRI observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa49951-24/aa49951-24.html

Transit Timing Variation of K2-237b: Hints Toward Planet Disk Migration
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slae083/7755410

Developing novel wormhole metrics in finsler-randers geometry using the barthel connection and osculating-riemannian method
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad7709

Statistics and Habitability of F-type Star–Planet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad65eb

Charged wormhole solutions in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321324002475

A photochemical PHO network for hydrogen-dominated exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06802

Why heterogeneous cloud particles matter. Iron-bearing species and cloud particle morphology affect exoplanet transmission spectra
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383946595_Why_heterogeneous_cloud_particles_matter_Iron-bearing_species_and_cloud_particle_morphology_affect_exoplanet_transmission_spectra

Waste Heat and Habitability: Constraints from Technological Energy Consumption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06737

The HD 191939 Exoplanet System is Well-Aligned and Flat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06795

The young exoplanetary system TOI-4562: Confirming the presence of a third body in the system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06924

The K2 and TESS Synergy III: search and rescue of the lost ephemeris for K2’s first planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07019

XUV irradiation of young planetary atmospheres. Results from a joint XMM-Newton and HST observation of HIP67522
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07229

Detectability Simulations of a NIR Surface Biosignature on Proxima Centauri b with Future Space Observatories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07289

Validation of up to seven TESS planet candidates through multi-colour transit photometry using MuSCAT2 data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07400

September 11, 2024 updates

Optimizing photosynthetic light-harvesting under stars: simple and general antenna models
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11120-024-01118-1

Cosmological wormhole: an analytical description
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad75c8

Ab initio quantum dynamics as a scalable solution to the exoplanet opacity challenge: A case study of CO$_2$ in hydrogen atmosphere
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383864055_Ab_initio_quantum_dynamics_as_a_scalable_solution_to_the_exoplanet_opacity_challenge_A_case_study_of_CO_2_in_hydrogen_atmosphere

Simulated performance of energy-resolving detectors towards exoplanet imaging with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05987

Thermal and magnetic evolution of an Earth-like planet with a basal magma ocean
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06031

Volatile-rich Sub-Neptunes as Hydrothermal Worlds: The Case of K2-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06258

Magnetic Fields in a sample of planet-hosting M dwarf stars from Kepler, K2, and TESS observed by APOGEE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06637

Bulk and atmospheric metallicities as direct probes of sequentially varying accretion mechanisms of gas and solids onto planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06670

Slow Rotation for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-51d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06697