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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August 28, 2024 updates

Alternative Pathways in Astrobiology: Reviewing and Synthesizing Contingency and Non-Biomolecular Origins of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/9/1069

Surviving in the Hot-Neptune Desert: The Discovery of the Ultrahot Neptune TOI-3261b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad60be

No Thick Atmosphere on the Terrestrial Exoplanet Gl 486b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15123

Warm Jupiters around M-dwarfs are great opportunities for extensive chemical, cloud and haze characterisation with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15137

All-optical damping forces enhanced by metasurfaces for stable relativistic lightsail propulsion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14486

\textit{Searching for GEMS:} Characterizing Six Giant Planets around Cool Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14694

August 27, 2024 updates

Conceptual design of the satellite payload for the JASMINE mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13092/130920A/Conceptual-design-of-the-satellite-payload-for-the-JASMINE-mission/10.1117/12.3018609.short

Progress in the Earth 2.0 (ET) space mission
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13092/1309218/Progress-in-the-Earth-20-ET-space-mission/10.1117/12.3018669.short

Getting to know the neighbours: Earth analogues in Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN space telescope
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/13092/3019256/Getting-to-know-the-neighbours–Earth-analogues-in-Alpha/10.1117/12.3019256.short

The Big Fringe Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01386

Exploring the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b – Constraints on atmospheric chemistry and dynamics from a joint retrieval of VLT/CRIRES+ and space photometric data
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50064-24/aa50064-24.html

Photo-dynamical characterisation of the TOI-178 resonant chain – Exploring the robustness of transit-timing variations and radial velocity mass characterisations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50212-24/aa50212-24.html

Light Scattering Measurements of KCl Particles as an Exoplanet Cloud Analog
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad6569

Analysis Of the Exoplanet Searching Based on Transit and Radial Velocity Method
https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HSET/article/view/24060

A Review of Exoplanet Detection Processes using Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
https://www.ijcaonline.org/archives/volume186/number36/a-review-of-exoplanet-detection-processes-using-artificial-intelligence-and-neural-networks/

Two Novel Hot Jupiter Formation Pathways: How White Dwarf Kicks Shape the Hot Jupiter Population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13307

A Comprehensive Analysis Spitzer 4.5 μm Phase Curve of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13308

Earths within Reach: Evaluation of Strategies for Mitigating Solar Variability using 3.5 years of NEID Sun-as-a-Star Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13318

JWST Thermal Emission of the Terrestrial Exoplanet GJ 1132b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13340

Four HD 209458 b transits through CRIRES+: Detection of H2O and non-detections of C2H2, CH4, and HCN
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13536

Modeling Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 μm Eclipse Depths for the Inflated Hot Jupiter in the Evolved Binary System HD 202772
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13680

Simulating Gravitational Microlensing Events by TESS: Predictions on Statistics and Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14231

Efficiently Searching for Close-in Companions around Young M Dwarfs using a Multi-year PSF Library
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14268

Revisiting the Borde-Traub focal plane wavefront estimation technique for exoplanet direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14286

August 26, 2024 Updates

The Emergence of a Fusion Propulsion Capability this Century and Implications for Exploration and Settlement Strategies
https://www.ipsonet.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Kevin-Long_Abstract.pdf

Advancements And Challenges in Cosmic Exploration
https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HSET/article/view/24118

Alternative concept on space used in the BSM – Supergravitational Unified Theory unveils the connection between the micro-cosmos and Universe
https://philpapers.org/rec/SARACO-7

The principle and practical production of a propulsion device utilizing Ampere force in a space where the propagation speed is limited by a magnetic field, and experimental verification of the presence of thrust generated by the propulsion device
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383155445_The_principle_and_practical_production_of_a_propulsion_device_utilizing_Ampere_force_in_a_space_where_the_propagation_speed_is_limited_by_a_magnetic_field_and_experimental_verification_of_the_presence

Analysis of Revolutionizing Deep Space Optical Communication Networks with AI Advancements
https://internationalpubls.com/index.php/cana/article/view/1293

The JWST/NIRISS Deep Spectroscopic Survey for Young Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12639

Impact of vegetation albedo on the habitability of Earth-like exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2016/7740470

Climate Regimes across the Habitable Zone: A Comparison of Synchronous Rocky M and K Dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05951

The First Evidence of a Host Star Metallicity Cutoff in the Formation of Super-Earth Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6570

Revising Properties of Planet–Host Binary Systems. IV. The Radius Distribution of Small Planets in Binary Star Systems Is Dependent on Stellar Separation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6310

August 23, 2024 updates

SHAPE-SHIFTING SAILER: ENTRY AND DESCENT TRAJECTORIES FOR SELF-FOLDABLE SHAPE MEMORY MEMBRANES
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383231050_AAS_24-113_SHAPE-SHIFTING_SAILER_ENTRY_AND_DESCENT_TRAJECTORIES_FOR_SELF-FOLDABLE_SHAPE_MEMORY_MEMBRANES

Exploring Unconventional Applications of Chirped Pulse Amplification: From Temporal Cloaking to Exotic Propulsion Systems
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383057429_Exploring_Unconventional_Applications_of_Chirped_Pulse_Amplification_From_Temporal_Cloaking_to_Exotic_Propulsion_Systems

Exploring the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b – Constraints on atmospheric chemistry and dynamics from a joint retrieval of VLT/CRIRES+ and space photometric data
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50064-24/aa50064-24.html

Gas dynamics around a Jupiter-mass planet I. Influence of protoplanetary disk properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12233

Earth-like planets hosting systems: Architecture and properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12251

A Search for Collisions and Planet-Disk Interactions in the Beta Pictoris Disk with 26 Years of High Precision HST/STIS Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12351

August 22, 2024 updates

Bayesian Analysis of the Probability of the Origin of Life Per Site Conducive to Abiogenesis
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39159441/

Contrasting Laser Ablation and Photon Pressure Propulsion
https://sensorsportal.com/p_3346

Search for a Second Earth – the Earth 2.0 (ET) Space Mission
https://www.sciengine.com/CJSS/doi/10.11728/cjss2024.03.yg05

Characterising planetary systems with SPIRou: Temperate sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting the nearby fully convective star GJ 1289 and a candidate around GJ 3378
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50466-24/aa50466-24.html

JWST-TST DREAMS: Nonuniform Dayside Emission for WASP-17b from MIRI/LRS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5c61

Temporal variability in transmission spectra of H2-dominated exoplanets: The influence of thermal evolution and stellar irradiation on atmospheric composition
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107624001106

Climate Bistability at the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone due to Runaway Greenhouse and Cloud Feedbacks
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383292229_Climate_Bistability_at_the_Inner_Edge_of_the_Habitable_Zone_due_to_Runaway_Greenhouse_and_Cloud_Feedbacks

Aggregate Cloud Particle Effects in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11215

Phase equilibria of sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11321

K2-399 b is not a planet. The Saturn that wandered through the Neptune desert is actually a hierarchical eclipsing binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11732