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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November 21, 2024 updates

Three Novel Approaches to Deep Space: Interstellar Travel that Transcend the Limitations Imposed by the Rocket Equation
https://sciencesforce.com/index.php/saem/article/view/427

Non-Gravitational Forces in Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10923

A giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08123-3

Reflected-light Phase Curves with PICASO: A Kepler-7b Case Study
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7de6

The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12795

Streams and Bubbles: Tidal Shaping of Planetary Outflows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12895

Database Design for SpExoDisks: A Database & Web Portal for Spectra of Exoplanet-Forming Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13308

Small and Close-In Planets are Uncommon around A-type Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13363

Assessing the processes behind planet engulfment and its imprints
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13455

November 20, 2024 updates

Imprints of the Einasto density profile and complexity factor on traversable wormholes in f(R, T) theory
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13561-4

JWST COMPASS: The 3–5 μm Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth L 98-59 c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad73cf

Physics of mid- and low-mass stars with solar-type activity and their impact on exoplanetary environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11898

Cascade adaptive optics with a second stage based on a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11946

Irradiated Atmospheres I: Heating by Vertical-Mixing Induced Energy Transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12605

Planet-planet scattering in systems of multiple planets of unequal mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12645

The pale blue dot: using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to simulate signals from hyper realistic exo-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12708

Homogeneous planet masses I: Reanalysis of archival HARPS radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12723

Recent advances in space sailing missions and technology: review of the 6th International Symposium on Space Sailing (ISSS 2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12492

November 19, 2024 updates

Mineral and chemical detail of rocky exoplanet surfaces could be detectable
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02413-6

A Correlated-K Parameterization for O2 Photolysis in the Schumann-Runge Bands
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JD040610

Chemical evolution of an evaporating lava pool
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2583/7903410

DIAmante TESS AutoRegressive Planet Search (DTARPS). III. Understanding the DTARPS-S Candidate Transiting Planet Catalogs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8355

Leaning Sideways: VHS 1256−1257 b is a Super-Jupiter with a Uranus-like Obliquity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad84e5

A Map of the Orbital Landscape for Perturbing Planet Solutions for Single-Planet Systems with TTVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10493

Distribution of Europium in The Milky Way Disk; Its Connection to Planetary Habitability and The Source of The R-Process
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10711

Diversity of disc viscosities can explain the period ratios of resonant and non-resonant systems of hot super-Earths and mini-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11452

November 18, 2024 Updates

Determination of the potential habitability of super-Earths
https://amslaurea.unibo.it/33282/

The Exoplanet Edge: Planets Don’t Induce Observable TTVs Faster than Half their Orbital Period
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09752

The Last Arecibo Message
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09790

Surface accretion as a dust retention mechanism in protoplanetary disks. I. Formulation and proof-of-concept simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09934

Modeling protoplanetary disk heating by planet-induced spiral shocks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09940

Explanation of the exceptionally strong timing noise of PSR J0337+1715 by a circum-ternary planet and consequences for gravity tests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10066

November 15, 2024 updates

The ESO SupJup Survey. III. Confirmation of 13CO in YSES 1 b and Atmospheric Detection of YSES 1 c with CRIRES+
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7ea9

Magnetized Winds of M-type Stars and Star–Planet Magnetic Interactions: Uncertainties and Modeling Strategy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8132

Information-Optimal Multi-Spacecraft Positioning for Interstellar Object Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09110

Fast Radio Bursts and Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09135

NGTS-33b: A Young Super-Jupiter Hosted by a Fast Rotating Massive Hot Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08960

Enhanced Stability in Planetary Systems with Similar Masses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09194

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://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09417

Gl 725A b: a potential super-Earth detected with SOPHIE and SPIRou in an M dwarf binary system at 3.5 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09506