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 26, 2024 updates

Unveiling a 4D Periodic Framework: How Quantum Topological Stability May Redefine the Elements
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387328045_Unveiling_a_4D_Periodic_Framework_How_Quantum_Topological_Stability_May_Redefine_the_Elements

Research on the Earth Reflected Solar Spectral Radiation Observation System Based on the Lagrange L1 Point of the Earth–Moon System
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/1/28

Effect of the Star Extreme Radiation Flux on the Structure of the Hydrogen–Helium Upper Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772924700902

Two distinct populations of dark comets delineated by orbits and sizes
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406424121

Nanozymes and Their Potential Roles in the Origin of Life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202412211

December 25, 2024 updates

Generalized uncertainty principle corrections in Rastall–Rainbow Casimir wormholes
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13656-y

Fundamental constraints to the logic of living system
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsfs.2024.0010

A Possible Origin of Life in Nonpolar Environments
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264724002697

Updating the carbon dioxide line list in HITEMP
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002240732400431X

Evolution of steam worlds: energetic aspects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17945

December 24, 2024 updates

Colonization Beyond Earth: Comparative Analysis of Human and AI Needs, Resource Requirements, and Likely Activities on Extraterrestrial Planets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387262704_Colonization_Beyond_Earth_Comparative_Analysis_of_Human_and_AI_Needs_Resource_Requirements_and_Likely_Activities_on_Extraterrestrial_Planets

Microbiota-Induced Radioprotection: A Novel Approach to Enhance Human Radioresistance with In-Situ Genetically Engineered Gut Bacteria
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8007/5/1/1

Supernovae evidence for foundational change to cosmological models
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/537/1/L55/7926647

A sub-Earth-mass planet orbiting Barnard’s star – No evidence of transits in TESS photometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52450-24/aa52450-24.html

Homogeneous planet masses – I. Reanalysis of archival HARPS radial velocities
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52127-24/aa52127-24.html

The GAPS programme at TNG – LXIV. An inner eccentric sub-Neptune and an outer sub-Neptune-mass candidate around BD+00 444 (TOI-2443)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51859-24/aa51859-24.html

The GAPS Programme at TNG – LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52236-24/aa52236-24.html

Separating Super-puffs versus Hot Jupiters among Young Puffy Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad946c

The Mass–Radius Relation for Planets in Binary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ada151

Contamination in Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy with a Changing Stellar Surface
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ada153

Magma Ocean Evolution at Arbitrary Redox State
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JE008576

Cleaning WASP-33 b transits from the host star photometric variability: analysis of TESS data from two sectors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13422

C3PO III: On the Lithium Signatures Following Planet Engulfment by Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20632

Stellar Contamination Correction Using Back-to-Back Transits of TRAPPIST-1 b and c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16541

Transmission spectroscopy of WASP-52 b with JWST NIRISS: Water and helium atmospheric absorption, alongside prominent star-spot crossings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17072

December 20, 2024 updates

A Comprehensive Analysis of Spitzer 4.5 μm Phase Curves of Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8dd7

Irradiated Atmospheres. I. Heating by Vertical-mixing-induced Energy Transport
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9473

Rotationally shearing interferometer for exoplanet detection: mathematical derivation, theory, and simulation
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-32-27-48391&id=565915

Lessons learned from the detection of wide companions by radial velocity and astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14542

Milestones at the Origin of Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14754