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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April 30, 2024 updates

An Efficient Tidal Dissipation Mechanism via Stellar Magnetic Fields
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3c40

TOI-663: A newly discovered multi-planet system with three transiting mini-Neptunes orbiting an early M star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa46899-23/aa46899-23.html

Accretion of primordial H–He atmospheres in mini-Neptunes: The importance of envelope enrichment
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa49039-23/aa49039-23.html

Time-domain analysis of multi-waveband flares from AD leonis
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1131/7659836

Simulating biosignatures from pre-oxygen photosynthesising life on TRAPPIST-1e
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1142/7659831

Research on the Optimal Design of the High-stability Optical System for Atmospheric Spectra in Transit Observation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad3eb2

Secondary eclipse and day-night modulation of exoplanets observed by transiting exoplanet survey satellite
https://tns.ewapublishing.org/article/9ff5ca7a4e5d4540b0034c78268ad111

The atmosphere of HD 149026b: Low metal-enrichment and weak energy transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17658

The impact of Ozone on Earth-like exoplanet climate dynamics: the case of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17972

Current laboratory performance of starlight suppression systems, and potential pathways to desired Habitable Worlds Observatory exoplanet science capabilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18036

Photo-dynamical Analysis of Circumbinary Multi-planet system TOI-1338: a Fully Coplanar Configuration with a Puffy Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18415

Detection of Fe and Ti on the dayside of the ultrahot Jupiter MASCARA-1b with CARMENES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18788

Quantifying broadband chromatic drifts in Fabry-Perot resonators for exoplanet science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10988

April 29, 2024 Updates

Manipulating the McGinty Equation to Create Stable Micro-Wormholes
https://unisciencepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Manipulating-the-McGinty-Equation-to-Create-Stable-Micro-Wormholes.pdf

A Volume-Limited Radio Search for Magnetic Activity in 140 Exoplanets with the Very Large Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16940

Terrestrial planet formation from a ring: long-term simulations accounting for the giant planet instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17259

The Most Common Habitable Planets III — Modeling Temperature Forcing and Surface Conditions on Rocky Exoplanets and Exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17448

The death of Vulcan: NEID reveals the planet candidate orbiting HD 26965 is stellar activity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad34d5

Investigating the Origins of Hot Neptunes from Radial Velocity Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad36c9

Potential climates and habitability on Gl 514 b: a super-Earth exoplanet with high eccentricity
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1124/7659367?searchresult=1

April 26, 2024 updates

Curves of growth for transiting exocomets: Application to Fe II lines in the β Pictoris system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa47588-23/aa47588-23.html

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. V. Do Self-consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase with VHS 1256–1257 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3e7c

DIAmante TESS AutoRegressive Planet Search (DTARPS). I. Analysis of 0.9 Million Light Curves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad29f0

DIAmante TESS AutoRegressive Planet Search (DTARPS). II. Hundreds of New TESS Candidate Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad29f1

The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. V. Do Self-consistent Atmospheric Models Represent JWST Spectra? A Showcase with VHS 1256–1257 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3828

Detectability of Surface Biosignatures for Directly-Imaged Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16126

TESS Free-floating Planet Candidate Is Likely a Stellar Flare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16480

Two-Dimensional Eclipse Mapping of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with JWST MIRI/LRS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16488

Host star properties of hot, warm and cold Jupiters in the solar neighborhood from \textit{Gaia} DR3: clues to formation pathways
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16499

A general polarimetric model for transiting and non-transiting ringed exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16606

The MOPYS project: A survey of 70 planets in search of extended He I and H atmospheres. No evidence of enhanced evaporation in young planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16732

April 25, 2024 updates

Exploring the nearest destinations in the Milky Way
https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.171340650.06792549/v1

The Philosophy of Outer Space
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003374381/philosophy-outer-space-mirko-daniel-garasic-marcello-di-paola

FARGOCPT: 2D Multiphysics code for simulating disk interactions with stars, planets, and particles
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa48687-23/aa48687-23.html

Dynamical stability of new wormhole solutions via cold dark matter and solitonic quantum wave halos in f (R, Lm) gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686424000906

A New Parameterization for Finding Solutions for Microlensing Exoplanet Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15502

A Population Analysis of 20 Exoplanets Observed from the Optical of the Near-infrared Wavelengths with HST: Evidence for Widespread Stellar Contamination
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15505

Chapters from the upcoming Volume 90 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (RiMG) on “Exoplanets: Compositions, Mineralogy, and Evolution”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15422
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15555
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15425
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15426
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15427
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15428
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15429
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15430
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15431
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15432
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15433

April 24, 2024 updates

NGTS discovery of a highly inflated Saturn-mass planet and a highly irradiated hot Jupiter – NGTS-26 b and NGTS-27 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa47162-23/aa47162-23.html

Comparing transit spectroscopy pipelines at the catalogue level: evidence for systematic differences
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1073/7656976

Planet Hunters NGTS: New Planet Candidates from a Citizen Science Search of the Next Generation Transit Survey Public Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad32c8

Dynamical Structures under Nonrestricted Hierarchical Planetary Systems with Different Mass Ratios
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad374b

The Impact of Cometary “Impacts” on the Chemistry, Climate, and Spectra of Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad28b3

Exploring Radio Emissions from Confirmed Exoplanets Using SKA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14468

APPLE: An Evolution Code for Modeling Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14483

A Unified Treatment of Kepler Occurrence to Trace Planet Evolution II: The Radius Cliff Formed by Atmospheric Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15172