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 14, 2024 updates

Novel Atmospheric Dynamics Shape the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone around White Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad54c1

Impacts on Ocean Worlds Are Sufficiently Frequent and Energetic to Be of Astrobiological Importance
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad656b

Detecting exoplanet transits with the next generation of X-ray telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06417

Optimizing TESS-related Exoplanet Observation: A Systematic Approach to Scheduling JWST SOSS and BOTS Templates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07042

Dwellers in the Deep: Biological Consequences of Dark Oxygen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06841

Lessons from Hubble and Spitzer: 1D Self-Consistent Model Grids for 19 Hot Jupiter Emission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06442

TESERACT: Twin Earth SEnsoR Astrophotonic CubesaT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06454

August 13, 2024 updates

Computational Study for Tissue-Specific Dosimetric Quantities of Secondary Radiation for Mars Exploration
https://www.proquest.com/openview/d14e2f21194fe54595c1e4d94123a5d4

Frequency Shift in Binary Microlensing
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1938/7732048

Different Planetary Eccentricity-period (PEP) Distributions of Small and Giant Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5ffa

Evidence for Primordial Alignment: Insights from Stellar Obliquity Measurements for Compact Sub-Saturn Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad61d8

TOI-1408: Discovery and Photodynamical Modeling of a Small Inner Companion to a Hot Jupiter Revealed by Transit Timing Variations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad65fd

The Limits of Interstellar AI: Challenges of Transmitting Human-Centric Intelligence to an Alien Civilization
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382996740_The_Limits_of_Interstellar_AI_Challenges_of_Transmitting_Human-Centric_Intelligence_to_an_Alien_Civilization

Revealing the Fate of Exoplanet Systems: Asteroseismic Identification of Host Star in the Red Clump or Red Giant Branch
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383036573_Revealing_the_Fate_of_Exoplanet_Systems_Asteroseismic_Identification_of_Host_Star_in_the_Red_Clump_or_Red_Giant_Branch

Climate Regimes Across the Habitable Zone: a Comparison of Synchronous Rocky M- and K-dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05951

Pebble-driven migration of low-mass planets in the 2D regime of pebble accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06076

On the potential origin of the circumbinary planet Delorme 1 (AB)b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06231

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). II. An Observation Strategy for the Target Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06338

Mass determination of two Jupiter-sized planets orbiting slightly evolved stars: TOI-2420 b and TOI-2485 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05612

August 12, 2024 Updates

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence 2024 [Microwave Surfing]
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10627986

A Review of Stable, Traversable Wormholes in f(R) Gravity Theories
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/16/8/1007

Exoplanets in science fiction
https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/30349/Thesis-Emma-Puranen-complete-version.pdf

Reevaluating Cosmic Speed Limits in Non-True Vacuums: The Need for Empirical Evidence
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382743048_Reevaluating_Cosmic_Speed_Limits_in_Non-True_Vacuums_The_Need_for_Empirical_Evidence

SETI 2024
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10631801

Climatic Effects of Ocean Salinity on M Dwarf Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04754

Revealing the Fate of Exoplanet Systems: Asteroseismic Identification of Host Star in the Red Clump or Red Giant Branch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04947

“Odds of finding evidence of life beyond Earth in my lifetime? I would say it’s 50% plus or minus 50%”: Interview with Shawn Dromagal-Goldman
https://academic.oup.com/jrssig/article-abstract/21/4/37/7730919

August 09, 2024 updates

Interstellar Knowledge Dynamics
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-57785-7_34

How NASA citizen science fuels future exoplanet research
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-nasa-citizen-science-fuels-future.html

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – Revisiting the GJ 581 multi-planetary system with new Doppler measurements from CARMENES, HARPS, and HIRES
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa49375-24/aa49375-24.html

Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the space weather in Proxima b: Habitability conditions and radio emission
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa49042-23/aa49042-23.html

A Candidate Giant Planet Companion to the Massive, Young White Dwarf GALEX J071816.4+373139 Informs the Occurrence of Giant Planets Orbiting B Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03985

The challenge of detecting remote spectroscopic signatures from radionuclides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04467

Black Holes, Warp Drives, and Energy Conditions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04495

August 08, 2024 updates

Irregular fixation: I. Fixed points and librating orbits of the Brown Hamiltonian
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1833/7729290

The dark days are overcast: Iron-bearing clouds on HD 209458 b and WASP-43 b can explain low dayside albedos
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1916/7729283

Siril: An Advanced Tool for Astronomical Image Processing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03346

Planet Formation Imager (PFI): Project update and future directions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03896