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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December 12, 2024 updates

An ecotheology for the dawn of interstellar exploration and expansion.
https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/entities/publication/ce739008-8fe4-40c6-8d42-3325627bfb9d

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE) – XIV. Finding terrestrial protoplanets in the galactic neighborhood
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa50764-24/aa50764-24.html

Deep Learning–based Measurement of Planetary Radial Velocities in the Presence of Stellar Variability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8a65

Students as Citizen Scientists: Observations and Measurements of 43 Exoplanet Targets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386884729_Students_as_Citizen_Scientists_Observations_and_Measurements_of_43_Exoplanet_Targets

Applying Statistical Physics Methods to Predict the Prevalence and Arrangement of Exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/386572411_Applying_Statistical_Physics_Methods_to_Predict_the_Prevalence_and_Arrangement_of_Exoplanets

An Obliquity Measurement of the Hot Neptune TOI-1694b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07950

Demographics of M Dwarf Binary Exoplanet Hosts Discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08465

Potential Interior Structures and Habitability of Super-Earth Exoplanets LHS 1140 b, K2-18 b, TOI-1452 b and TOI-1468 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08476

Characterization of seven transiting systems including four warm Jupiters from SOPHIE and TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08527

CHEOPS observations confirm nodal precession in the WASP-33 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08557

December 11, 2024 updates

Conducting high frequency radio SETI searches using ALMA
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2714/7920797

Little iLocater: paving the way for iLocater
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2720/7920786

Traversable wormholes induced by stress energy conservation: combining Casimir energy with a scalar field
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/12/019

Tides on Lava Worlds: Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth-Moon System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07285

Planetary Dynamos in Evolving Cold Gas Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07551

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. The impact of rotation and magnetic fields on the radial velocity jitter in cool stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07691

December 10, 2024 updates

Impact of Star Flare Activity on the Structure of the Hydrogen–Helium Upper Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772924700793

Falsifying Anthropics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02993

DARWEN: Data-driven Algorithm for Reduction of Wide Exoplanetary Networks: An unbiased approach to accurately reducing chemical networks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa52070-24/aa52070-24.html

Revisiting the conundrum of the sub-Jovian and Neptune desert: A new approach that incorporates stellar properties
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51252-24/aa51252-24.html

Cascade adaptive optics with a second stage based on a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet observations: Experimental validation on the ESO/GHOST testbed
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51449-24/aa51449-24.html

Exoplanets across galactic stellar populations with PLATO: Estimating exoplanet yields around FGK stars for the thin disk, thick disk, and stellar halo
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51537-24/aa51537-24.html

Search for Dyson Rings Around Pulsars: Unexpected Light Curves
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2701/7918435

The 10 pc Neighborhood of Habitable Zone Exoplanetary Systems: Threat Assessment from Stellar Encounters and Supernovae
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8ebe

A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N and CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05423

TOI-4504: Exceptionally large Transit Timing Variations induced by two resonant warm gas giants in a three planet system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05609

A Novel Technosignature Search in the Breakthrough Listen Green Bank Telescope Archive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05786

A potential exomoon from the predicted planet obliquity of β Pictoris b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05988

Metallicity Dependence of Giant Planets around M Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06137

A multi-technique detection of an eccentric giant planet around accelerating star HD 57625
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06404

Population-level Hypothesis Testing with Rocky Planet Emission Data: A Tentative Trend in the Brightness Temperatures of M-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06573

On the formation of super-Jupiters: Core Accretion or Gravitational Instability?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06594

Resolved convection in hydrogen-rich atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06648

On the Formation of Planets in the Milky Way’s Thick Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09319

December 09, 2024 Updates

From Stars to Life
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/from-stars-to-life/frontmatter/3AE2FF745038AF76E653FAE8FF1FF373

Market Study on Nuclear Electric Propulsion for Space Applications
https://hal.science/hal-04811171/document

Precision Medicine for Long and Safe Permanence of Humans in Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780443222597/precision-medicine-for-long-and-safe-permanence-of-humans-in-space

True mass and atmospheric composition of the non-transiting hot Jupiter HD 143105 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04552

Machine learning approach for mapping the stable orbits around planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04568

A substellar flyby that shaped the orbits of the giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04583

Water Enrichment from Pebble Drift in Disks with Gap-forming Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04681

Eta-Earth Revisited II: Deriving a Maximum Number of Earth-like Habitats in the Galactic Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05002

Eta-Earth Revisited I: A Formula for Estimating the Maximum Number of Earth-like Habitats
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05005

The effect of radiation pressure on the dispersal of photoevaporating discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05054

Novel Physics of Escaping Secondary Atmospheres May Shape the Cosmic Shoreline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05188

Using the helium triplet as a tracer of the physics of giant planet outflows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05258

New analysis of SNeIa Pantheon Catalog: Variable speed of light as an alternative to dark energy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05262

CRIRES+ and ESPRESSO Reveal an Atmosphere Enriched in Volatiles Relative to Refractories on the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8b28

Future of Antimatter Production, Storage, Control, and Annihilation Applications in Propulsion Technologies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666202724004518

Proton Fluxes of Solar-Type Stars with Planetary Systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772924700823

December 06, 2024 updates

Breaking degeneracies in exoplanetary parameters through self-consistent atmosphere–interior modelling
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa48945-23/aa48945-23.html

Diversities and similarities exhibited by multi-planetary systems and their architectures – I. Orbital spacings
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51353-24/aa51353-24.html

The CHEOPS view of the climate of WASP-3 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51049-24/aa51049-24.html

An alternating minimization algorithm with trajectory for direct exoplanet detection – The AMAT algorithm
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51242-24/aa51242-24.html

Disequilibrium Chemistry, Diabatic Thermal Structure, and Clouds in the Atmosphere of COCONUTS-2b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8b2d

Planet Mass Function around M Stars at 1–10 au: A Plethora of Sub-Earth Mass Objects
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8c44

Slow Rotation for the Super-puff Planet Kepler-51d
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad91ae

High-temperature measurements of acetylene VUV absorption cross sections and application to warm exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202451638

Image-Constrained Modeling with Hubble and Keck Images Reveals that OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb is a Jupiter-Mass planet Orbiting a K Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03651

JWST-TST DREAMS: A Precise Water Abundance for Hot Jupiter WASP-17b from the NIRISS SOSS Transmission Spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03675

A Global Perspective with Updated Constraints on the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-19b: Atmospheric Properties and Stellar Activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03739

The GAPS programme at TNG XLVI. A homogeneous search for Na i and its possible variability in ten gas giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04330

DARWEN: Data-driven Algorithm for Reduction of Wide Exoplanetary Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04359

From Misaligned Sub-Saturns to Aligned Brown Dwarfs: The Highest Mp/M∗ Systems Exhibit Low Obliquities, Even around Hot Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04438