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 06, 2024 updates

Exoplanet Detection Empowered with Artificial Intelligence
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378746512_Exoplanet_Detection_Empowered_with_Artificial_Intelligence

Exoplanet Exploration: Charting New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378742832_Exoplanet_Exploration_Charting_New_Worlds_Beyond_Our_Solar_System

The Epoch of Giant Planet Migration Planet Search Program. II. A Young Hot Jupiter Candidate around the AB Dor Member HS Psc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02378

Breaking Giant Chains: Early-Stage Instabilities in Long-Period Giant Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02412

Search for giant planets in M67 V: a warm Jupiter orbiting the turn-off star S1429
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02911

Exoplanet Populations and their Dependence on Host Star Properties (Handbook of Exoplanets, 2nd Edition)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.00023

March 05, 2024 updates

Warp Drive Concept: Harnessing the McGinty Equation’s Fractal Potential for Faster-Than-Light Travel
https://unisciencepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Warp-Drive-ConceptHarnessing-the-McGinty-Equations-Fractal-Potential-for-Faster-Than-Light-Travel.pdf

In an exoplanet atmosphere far, far away
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-024-00586-2

Science fiction media representations of exoplanets: portrayals of changing astronomical discoveries
https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2301_2024_A04/

Exomoon Phase Curves: Toroidal Exosphere Simulations of Exo-Ios Orbiting 8 Exoplanets in Alkali Spectroscopy
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007935

Examining the detectability of ringing on highly eccentric exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01026

A Search for Temporal Atmospheric Variability of Kepler Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01295

The GAPS Programme at TNG LIV. Multiple molecular species in the atmosphere of HAT-P-11 b and review of the HAT-P-11 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01527

ROME IV. The Arecibo Search for Substellar Magnetospheric Radio Emissions in Purported Exoplanet-Hosting Systems at 5 GHz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02226

Towards atmospheric retrievals of panchromatic light-curves: ExPLOR-ing generalized inversion techniques for transiting exoplanets with JWST and Ariel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02244

The “Drake equation” of exomoons — a cascade of formation, stability and detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05390

Direct Radiation Pressure Measurements for Lightsail Membranes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00117

March 04, 2024 Updates

Feasibility of Communication with a Hypothetical Radio Telescope on Trappist-1
https://estradad.es/teorias/pdf/EN%20Feasibility%20of%20Communication%20with%20a%20Hypothetical%20Radio%20Telescope%20on%20Trappist-1.pdf

Validity of energy conditions of matter in traversable wormholes under the f(Q) modified gravity theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17498

Advances in Spacecraft Engineering: A Comprehensive Plan for Future Missions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378313874_Advances_in_Spacecraft_Engineering_A_Comprehensive_Plan_for_Future_Missions

Validation of a Third Planet in the LHS 1678 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00110

LV: A HeI survey of close-in giant planets hosted by M-K dwarf stars with GIANO-B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00608

Exomoon Phase Curves: Toroidal Exosphere Simulations of Exo-Ios Orbiting 8 Exoplanets in Alkali Spectroscopy
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE007935

Transiting exoplanets with the Mid-InfraRed Instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope: From simulations to observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00676

March 01, 2024 updates

Signatures of X-Ray-dominated Chemistry in the Spectra of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad24e4

A comprehensive semigray climate model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063324000308

Exoplanet Hunting in the Classroom: An Easy-to-Implement Experiment based on Video-Aided Light Curve Analysis with Smartphones
https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/pte/article-abstract/62/3/226/3267013/Exoplanet-Hunting-in-the-Classroom-An-Easy-to

Hunting for exocomet transits in the TESS database using the Random Forest method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19075

The impact of the explicit representation of convection on the climate of a tidally locked planet in global stretched-mesh simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19277

Connections between Planetary Populations and the Chemical Characteristics of their Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19321

Searching for NLTE effects in the high-resolution transmission spectrum of WASP-121 b with Cloudy for Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19352

The effect of cloudy atmospheres on the thermal evolution of warm giant planets from an interior modelling perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19466

February 29, 2024 updates

Atmospheric formaldehyde production on early Mars leading to a potential formation of bio-important molecules
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-52718-9

CHEOPS observations of KELT-20 b/MASCARA-2 b: An aligned orbit and signs of variability from a reflective day side
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/03/aa47533-23/aa47533-23.html

Synthetic light curves of exoplanet transit using nanosatellite data
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133724000313

Exoplanets Prediction in Multi-Planetary Systems and Determining the Correlation Between the Parameters of Planets and Host Stars Using Artificial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17898