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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March 20, 2024 updates

Extensive dynamic changes in the human transcriptome and its circadian organization during prolonged bed rest
https://cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)00552-2

The effects of general relativity on close-in radial-velocity-detected exosystems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa46727-23/aa46727-23.html

Transiting exoplanets with the Mid-InfraRed Instrument on board JWST: From simulations to observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa47127-23/aa47127-23.html

A non-zero Doppler amplitude is not enough: Revisiting the putative radial velocity detection of sub-Venus exoplanet L 98-59 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae778/7632144

OGLE-2017-BLG-0448Lb: A Low Mass–Ratio Wide-orbit Microlensing Planet?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad284f

Direct fusion drive based on centrifugal mirror confinement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524001504

Unveiling MOA-2007-BLG-192: An M Dwarf Hosting a Likely Super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12118

Uranus and Neptune as methane planets: producing icy giants from refractory planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12512

Do Temperate Rocky Planets Around M Dwarfs have an Atmosphere ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12617

A plethora of the Earth-like planet: Ramifications of a Fuzzy World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12441

Terrestrial Life in Light of the Copernican Principle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12051

March 19, 2024 updates

The Astrobiology Primer 3.0
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0116

Chapter 1: The Astrobiology Primer 3.0
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0129

Balance and imbalance in biogeochemical cycles reflect the operation of closed, exchange, and open sets
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316535121

A Revisit of the Mass–Metallicity Trends in Transiting Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad298d

A Gap in the Densities of Small Planets Orbiting M Dwarfs: Rigorous Statistical Confirmation Using the Open-source Code RhoPop
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad26f5

Analysis and simulation of the effect of large optical range difference of common path coherent-dispersion spectrometer on the detection of exoplanet radial velocities
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030401824001809

Long-term double synchronization in close-in gas giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10979

The role of Ohmic dissipation of internal currents on Hot Jupiter radii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11501

Logistic regression to boost exoplanet detection performances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11571

The fuzzy cores of Jupiter and Saturn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11657

March 18, 2024 Updates

TOI-4438 b: a transiting mini-Neptune amenable to atmospheric characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09833

The Dynamic, Chimeric Inner Disk of PDS 70
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09970

Spectral Energy Distributions of Disc-Embedded Accreting Protoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10057

Mutual occurrence ratio of planets – I. New clues to reveal origins of hot- and warm-Jupiter from the RV Sample
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae733/7630229?searchresult=1

Predicting the Dominant Formation Mechanism of Multiplanetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2c8d

A Tale of Two Peas in a Pod: The Kepler-323 and Kepler-104 Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad2840

March 15, 2024 updates

Quantum Propulsion: Background and Practical Applications
https://ej-physics.org/index.php/ejphysics/article/view/294

Experimental bed rest as a model to investigate mechanisms of, and countermeasures against, microgravity and disease-free inactivity
https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1113/EP091795

Fractal spatio-temporal scale-free messaging: amplitude modulation of self-executable carriers given by the Weierstrass function’s components
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06633

Beyond the Stars: Quantum Mechanics in Space
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=4qL6EAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA13&dq=interstellar+spacecraft&ots=ffCu-l8LGJ&sig=UztFTxUEyh-7qITV1cAYhVkd5Ks#v=onepage&q&f=false

Unveiling hidden companions in post-common-envelope binaries: A robust strategy and uncertainty exploration
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa47030-23/aa47030-23.html

Density discrepancy between transit-timing variations and radial velocity: Insights from the host star composition
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa48549-23/aa48549-23.html

Saved by the Dark Forest: How a Multitude of Extraterrestrial Civilizations Can Prevent a Hobbesian Trap
https://academic.oup.com/monist/article/107/2/176/7629691

Climates Using Interactive Suites of Intercomparisons Nested for Exoplanet Studies (CUISINES)
https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/2632-3338_CUISINES

Venus as an Anchor Point for Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08830

An atlas of resolved spectral features in the transmission spectrum of WASP-189 b with MAROON-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08863

Friends not Foes: Strong Correlation between Inner Super-Earths and Outer Gas Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08873

March 14, 2024 updates

On the detectability of light on Dyson Sphere around white dwarf stars
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AAS…24315904A/abstract

Did ‘alien’ debris hit Earth? Startling claim sparks row at scientific meeting
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00774-6

The TESS-Keck Survey. XII. A Dense 1.8 R⊕ Ultra-short-period Planet Possibly Clinging to a High-mean-molecular-weight Atmosphere after the First Gigayear
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad28bb

Gravitational lensing for interstellar power transmission
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.064029

A sub-solar metallicity on the ultra-short period planet HIP 65Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07983

The intermittently-resonant coevolution of migrating planets and their pulsating stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08014

Astrometric detection of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08226