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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January 03, 2025 updates

We Can Spread Our Genetic Material
https://www.aob.rs/en/publishing-en/doi/conferences-papers-and-proceedings/771-2024-01-10-69646-aob104p113

Giant exoplanet composition – The impact of the hydrogen–helium equation of state and interior structure
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52783-24/aa52783-24.html

The COBREX archival survey: Improved constraints on the occurrence rate of wide-orbit substellar companions – I. A uniform re-analysis of 400 stars from the GPIES survey
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52310-24/aa52310-24.html

Host star and exoplanet composition: Polluted white dwarf reveals depletion of moderately refractory elements in planetary material
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51621-24/aa51621-24.html

Retrieving wind properties from the ultra-hot dayside of WASP-189 b with CRIRES+
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51391-24/aa51391-24.html

A multi-technique detection of an eccentric giant planet around the accelerating star HD 57625
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52832-24/aa52832-24.html

Gas dynamics around a Jupiter-mass planet – II. Chemical evolution of circumplanetary material
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51140-24/aa51140-24.html

Development of Gravity Theories in the View of TRAPPIST-1e
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ad9254

Absorption cross section of gas phase isoprene in the infrared-visible range
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S138614252401833X

First unambiguous detection of ammonia in the atmosphere of a planetary mass companion with JWST/MIRI coronagraphs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00104

Detection of H2O and CO2 in the Atmosphere of the Hot Super-Neptune WASP-166b with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00609

Probing exoplanetary magnetism via atomic alignment effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01122

December 31, 2024 updates

Probing Exoplanets Based on Transit, Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging
https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=J7PYUGazcjY=&t=1

Stability of the thin shell from traversable Schwarzschild-like wormholes
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13676-8

FCN4Flare: Fully convolution neural networks for flare detection
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2789/7934963

Relativistic elastic membranes: rotating disks and Dyson spheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad9f16

The effect of encounters with interstellar objects
https://sao.editorum.ru/en/nauka/conference_article/11819/view

Optimization of Interstellar Travel through Design Approaches with Gimballing Ion Thrusters
https://acceleron.org.in/index.php/aaj/article/view/204

Interpretation of the Balmer-alpha line absorption in the exoplanet WASP-69 b
https://sao.editorum.ru/en/nauka/conference_article/11977/view

Investigation of the infrared profiles of exoplanet HD 209458 b secondary eclipses
https://sao.editorum.ru/en/nauka/conference_article/11920/view

The RISTRETTO simulator: Exoplanet reflected spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20879

Novel SiC UV Instrumentation Development with Potential Applications for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21034

December 30, 2024 Updates

Probing Life with Planet Searching and Habitat Evaluation: Evidence from Moon, Mars and WASP-96b
https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=c35ysdijpfc=&t=1

Secular Perturbations from Exterior Giants Strongly Influence Gap Complexity in Peas-in-a-Pod Exoplanetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18661

Habitability in 4-D: Predicting the Climates of Earth Analogs across Rotation and Orbital Configurations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19357

Signatures of Core-Envelope Rotational Misalignment in the Mixed-Mode Asteroseismology of Kepler-56
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19451

Transiting exoplanets and magnetic spots characterized with optical interferometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2015/02/aa24013-14/aa24013-14.html