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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April 18, 2024 updates

Quantum Entanglement and Natural Computation: Exploring the Possibility of Cosmic Scale Information Processing
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379732550_Quantum_Entanglement_and_Natural_Computation_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Cosmic_Scale_Information_Processing

The value of a spaceflight clinical decision support system for earth-independent medical operations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-023-00284-1

Revealing H2O dissociation in WASP-76 b through combined high- and low-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1048/7649375

Spherically symmetric wormhole solutions admitting Karmarkar condition
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad3176

The Extraterrestrial Turing Test: Advanced AI as a Medium for Interstellar Mathematical Communication
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379875653_The_Extraterrestrial_Turing_Test_Advanced_AI_as_a_Medium_for_Interstellar_Mathematical_Communication

The Statistical Analysis of Exoplanet and Host Stars Based on Multi-Satellite Data Observations
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/10/4/182

End-to-end simulations of exoplanet detection with multiplexed volume Bragg gratings
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379891613_End-to-end_simulations_of_exoplanet_detection_with_multiplexed_volume_Bragg_gratings

Tidal evolution of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of low-mass stars
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379691663_Tidal_evolution_of_Earth-like_planets_in_the_habitable_zone_of_low-mass_stars

Mutual Occurrence Ratio of Planets. I. New Clues to Reveal Origins of Hot- and Warm-Jupiter from the RV Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11005

The Radius Distribution of M dwarf-hosted Planets and its Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11022

Characterisation of the TOI-421 planetary system using CHEOPS, TESS, and archival radial velocity data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11074

The puzzling orbital residuals of XTE J1710-281: is a Jovian planet orbiting around the binary system?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11203

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). I. Astrometric Noise and Planetary Detection Efficiency due to Stellar Spots and Faculae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11210

Biosignatures from pre-oxygen photosynthesising life on TRAPPIST-1e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11611

April 17, 2024 updates

Alien Earths – The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250283641/alienearths

Secular evolution of circumbinary 2-planet systems with isotropically varying masses
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1015/7646871

Hyper Illumination of Exoplanets: Analytical and Numerical Approaches
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad33c1

Optimal Strategies for the Exploration of Near-by Stars
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117724003351

Development of a Simplified Quantum Receiver for Theoretical Interstellar Communication: Design and Feasibility Study
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379870323_Development_of_a_Simplified_Quantum_Receiver_for_Theoretical_Interstellar_Communication_Design_and_Feasibility_Study

Catalog of variable stars in the WD 0009+501 and GRW +708247 fields based on photometric survey data on transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10027

Inclination instability of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10080

High-resolution atmospheric retrievals of WASP-76b transmission spectroscopy with ESPRESSO: Monitoring limb asymmetries across multiple transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10463

Direct imaging of exoplanets: Legacy and prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10522

The XUV-driven escape of the planets around TOI-431 & ν2 Lupi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10673

April 16, 2024 updates

The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of complex life: implications for finding extraterrestrial civilizations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54700-x

Magnetic origin of the discrepancy between stellar limb-darkening models and observations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02252-5

Purple is the new green: biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/530/2/1363/7645230

Atmospheric Mass Loss from TOI-1259 A b, a Gas Giant Planet With a White Dwarf Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08736

Astrometric detection of a Neptune-mass candidate planet in the nearest M-dwarf binary system GJ65 with VLTI/GRAVITY
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08746

Two-Dimensional Models of Microphysical Clouds on Hot Jupiters I: Cloud Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08759

Exoplanet Detection : A Detailed Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09143

Machine learning-based identification of Gaia astrometric exoplanet orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09350

Hot Jupiter Diversity and the Onset of TiO/VO Revealed by a Large Grid of Non-Grey Global Circulation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09626

Interferometer measurements in interstellar communications: methods and observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08994

April 15, 2024 Updates

Towards the Human Colonization of Other Worlds
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/towards-human-colonization-other-worlds-fernando-a-g-alcoforado/

Meeting the Alien — An Introduction to Exosociology
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-41317-0

Observation uncertainty effects on the precision of interior planetary parameters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae993/7645096?searchresult=1

The EBLM Project XII. An eccentric, long-period eclipsing binary with a companion near the hydrogen-burning limit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae842/7645099?searchresult=1

The EBLM project – XIII. The absolute dynamical masses of the circumbinary planet host TOI-1338/BEBOP-1, and applications to the study of exoplanet atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae459/7645103?searchresult=1

The Occurrence of Small, Short-period Planets Younger than 200 Myr with TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad3108

Teegarden’s Star revisited – A nearby planetary system with at least three planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa48033-23/aa48033-23.html

April 12, 2024 updates

Defining the minimum physical requirements for life in space
https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~rwordsworth/papers/wordsworth2024defining_preprint.pdf

A Novel Abiotic Pathway for Phosphine Synthesis over Acidic Dust in Venus’ Atmosphere
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0046

Transit Spectroscopy of K2-33b with Subaru/IRD: Spin-Orbit Alignment and Tentative Atmospheric Helium
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07262

Dynamical and Secular Stability of Mutually Inclined Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07264

Doomed Worlds I: No new evidence for orbital decay in a long-term survey of 43 ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07339