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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May 07, 2024 updates

Constant velocity physical warp drive solution
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad26aa

TESS and ESPRESSO discover a super-Earth and a mini-Neptune orbiting the K-dwarf TOI-238
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa48958-23/aa48958-23.html

Constraining the formation of WASP-39b using JWST transit spectroscopy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa47124-23/aa47124-23.html

Potential surface ice distribution on close-in terrestrial exoplanets around M dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1200/7665754

Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1186/7665761

Impact of Planetary Parameters on Water Clouds Microphysics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3242

The Implications of Thermal Hydrodynamic Atmospheric Escape on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02401

Exomoons & Exorings with the Habitable Worlds Observatory I: On the Detection of Earth-Moon Analog Shadows & Eclipses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02408

Information content of JWST spectra of WASP-39b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02656

Stellar X-ray activity and habitability revealed by ROSAT sky survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02863

May 06, 2024 Updates

Space Technology — A Short Introduction
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-34818-1

Prioritizing High-Precision Photometric Monitoring of Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Companions with JWST — Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST White Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01605

Revealing H2O dissociation in WASP-76~b through combined high- and low-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01933

Direct detectability of tidally heated exomoons by photometric orbital modulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01970

How Rare are TESS Free-Floating Planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02279

A Search for Non-Transiting Exoplanets with Optical Light Phase Curves from TESS Southern Ecliptic Sectors
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1197/7664398

A Report on Stellar Companion Mass Estimates within Our Solar Neighborhood
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad4608

89 New Ultracool Dwarf Comoving Companions Identified with the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad324e

Study of type II migration under the framework of the disk instability model for giant planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa48347-23/aa48347-23.html

May 03, 2024 updates

The most common habitable planets III – Modeling temperature forcing and surface conditions on rocky exoplanets and exomoons
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1150/7663586

On the existence and stability of traversable wormhole solutions with novel shapefunctions in the framework of F(R, Lm) gravity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1572-9494/ad3544

Traversable wormholes from Loop Quantum Gravity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/05/016

Formation of extraterrestrial peptides and their derivatives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00744

Science Fiction Media Representations of Exoplanets: Portrayals of Changing Astronomical Discoveries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00684

May 02, 2024 updates

Travel In Deep Dark Space with Giant LED Sail
https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/3692

Leaving Home: Opportunities and Challenges for Human Exploration of the Solar System and the Milky Way Galaxy
https://sesa.scholasticahq.com/article/117180

ethraid: A Simple Method for Characterizing Long-period Companions Using Doppler, Astrometric, and Imaging Constraints
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad390b

Gas, not dust: Migration of TESS/Gaia hot Jupiters possibly halted by the magnetospheres of protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00106

Is Artificial Intelligence the great filter that makes advanced technical civilisations rare in the universe?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00042

May 01, 2024 updates

Wormhole Formation with Gravitational Particle Creation Mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17208

Planet Hunters TESS. V. A Planetary System Around a Binary Star, Including a Mini-Neptune in the Habitable Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1d5c

Initial Entropy and Potential Delayed Formation of the Directly Imaged Exoplanet AF Lep b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad4481

SPHERE RefPlanets: Search for epsilon Eridani b and warm dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19504