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 01, 2024 updates

Activity of the Spectral Class K2V Dwarf HD 189733 in a Hot-Jupiter Type Exoplanet
htthttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-024-09824-3ps://link.springer.com/journal/10511

TOI−757 b: an eccentric transiting mini−Neptune on a 17.5−d orbit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1767/7725072

TESSILATOR: a one-stop shop for measuring TESS rotation periods
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1850/7725066

How black hole activity may influence exoplanetary evolution in our Galaxy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1840/7723695

Clouds on partial atmospheres of lava planets and where to find them
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21111

An Earth-sized Planet on the Verge of Tidal Disruption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21167

Obliquity Constraints for the Extremely Eccentric Sub-Saturn Kepler-1656 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21188

KPF Confirms a Polar Orbit for KELT-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21196

X-ray Emission of Nearby Low-mass and Sun-like Stars with Directly Imageable Habitable Zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21247

SPECtrophotometer for TRansmission spectroscopy of exoplanets (SPECTR)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21268

A Testbed for Tidal Migration: the 3D Architecture of an Eccentric Hot Jupiter HD 118203 b Accompanied by a Possibly Aligned Outer Giant Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21377

The frequency of transiting planetary systems around polluted white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21743

July 31, 2024 updates

Beyond the Rocket: A Review of Propellantless Propulsion Technologies and Concepts
https://www.wisdomgale.com/jerr/index.php?mno=204396

Mimicking lightning-induced electrochemistry on the early Earth
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400819121

How black hole activity may influence exoplanetary evolution in our Galaxy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1840/7723695

Why Observations at Mid-infrared Wavelengths Partially Mitigate M Dwarf Star Host Stellar Activity Contamination in Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad509a

Comparative Evaluation and Prediction of Exoplanets Using Machine Learning Methods
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781394230952.ch9

TOI-757 b: an eccentric transiting mini-Neptune on a 17.5-d orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20525

Precise Transit Photometry Using TESS II: Revisiting 28 Additional Transiting Systems With Updated Physical Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20846

Detailed abundances of the planet-hosting TOI-1173 A/B system: Possible evidence of planet engulfment in a very wide binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20949

Atmospheric characterization of the super-Jupiter HIP 99770 b with KPIC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20952

The instability mechanism of compact multiplanet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17928

July 30, 2024 updates

Exoplanet Imaging Along a Time-Varying Focal Line Using Tethered Spacecraft
https://www.proquest.com/openview/8272beb1f04876f1dbdfe41d0a8d2d5f

On Radiative-Convective Climate Modeling for Cloudy Terrestrial Worlds
https://www.proquest.com/openview/a4266deba72bc51048be7e0611b8a883

Ideas for the Speed of Light-Viable Space Travel
https://peercite.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Quantum-Science-Special-Issue.pdf

Stability of lower dimensional counter-rotating thin-shell wormholes with scalar hair
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-62590-2

TOI-837 b: Characterisation, formation, and evolutionary history of an infant warm Saturn-mass planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/08/aa50679-24/aa50679-24.html

TOI-2015 b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad55ea

Black holes, warp drives, and energy conditions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269324004684

Habitability of an exoplanet based on stellar wind
https://www.ewadirect.com/proceedings/tns/article/view/14209

On the suppression of giant planet formation around low-mass stars in clustered environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19018

Machine-assisted classification of potential biosignatures in earth-like exoplanets using low signal-to-noise ratio transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19167

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Magnesium and silicon abundances of K7-M5.5 stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19969

Disk and atmosphere composition of multi-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20117

Multiplicity of stars with planets in the solar neighbourhood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20138

July 29, 2024 Updates

Innovative Hydrogen Harvesting System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2024-85485

An ultrafast algorithm for ultrafast spectroscopy
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4579424/v1

TOI-2015 b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad55ea

Planetary and Solar Electromagnetic Lensing (SEL), Geometry, Astrophysics for Exoplanet Imaging
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4925

Atmospheric Mining in the Outer Solar System: Interplanetary Transfer Vehicles, In-Situ Resource Utilization, and Moon Mining Issues
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4832

Navigating the New Frontier: Ethical, Societal, and Legal Challenges in the Space Economy
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4825

Space Launch System (SLS) for Missions to Outer Planets and Beyond
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4811

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Wavefront Control for Exoplanet Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18733

Project Draupnir: A Space Mission Concept Leveraging ISRU Based Refueling for Extended Exploration of the Asteroid Belt
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4819

Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11c as a Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad675e

TOI-2015 b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad55ea

Variations in the Radius Distribution of Single- and Compact Multiple-transiting Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad58da

July 26, 2024 updates

Can Chirality Answer Whether We Are Alone?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chir.23708

exoTEDRF: An EXOplanet Transit and Eclipse Data Reduction Framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17541

Climate Transition to Temperate Nightside at High Atmosphere Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17600

TOI-1408: Discovery and Photodynamical Modeling of a Small Inner Companion to a Hot Jupiter Revealed by TTVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17798

GJ 238 b: A 0.57 Earth Radius Planet Orbiting an M2.5 Dwarf Star at 15.2 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18199