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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January 30, 2025 updates

Tracing the inner edge of the habitable zone with sulfur chemistry
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp8105

The Evolution of Exoplanet Detection Techniques using Artificial Intelligence
https://ijcrt.org.in/index.php/ijcrt/article/view/78

Carving the Edges of the Rocky Planet Population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17241

A closer look at LTT\,9779b: The ESPRESSO endeavour to pierce the atmospheric veil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17272

Carving Out the Inner Edge of the Period Ratio Distribution through Giant Impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17359

The role of cloud particle properties on WASP-39b transmission spectrum based on JWST/NIRSpec observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17728

January 29, 2025 updates

Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/programs/habitable-worlds-observatory/

Exploring the Use of Tokamaks for Rocket Propulsion: A Novel Approach to Space Travel
https://zenodo.org/records/14758159

There is no disk mass budget problem of planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa49847-24/aa49847-24.html

A general polarimetric model for transiting and nontransiting ringed exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa47194-23/aa47194-23.html

The GAPS programme at TNG – LXVI. A homogeneous search for Na I and its possible variability in ten gas giant exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51937-24/aa51937-24.html

On the 3D transport of galactic cosmic rays in a selection of exoplanet-hosting astrospheres: The influence of stellar rotation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf164/7985757

Revisiting the multi-planetary system of the nearby star HD 20794: Confirmation of a low-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby G-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17092

archNEMESIS: an open-source Python package for analysis of planetary atmospheric spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16452

January 28, 2025 updates

Peer Complexity in Big History
https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/JBH/article/view/3080

Big History in the Galaxy – About Risks of Contacts with Alien Civilizations
https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/JBH/article/view/3073

Discovery III: Missions to the Outer Planets Using Inertial Confinement Fusion Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A36159

Revisiting the multi-planetary system of the nearby star HD 20794 – Confirmation of a low-mass planet in the habitable zone of a nearby G-dwarf
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51769-24/aa51769-24.html

From CO2- to H2O-dominated atmospheres and back – How mixed outgassing changes the volatile distribution in magma oceans around M dwarf stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa50307-24/aa50307-24.html

The Cosmic Seed : Revisiting the Panspermia Hypothesis
https://zenodo.org/records/14739872

Effects of Planetary Mass Uncertainties on the Interpretation of the Reflectance Spectra of Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada610

Spectroscopically Resolved Partial Phase Curve of the Rapid Heating and Cooling of the Highly Eccentric Hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b with WFC3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9b2a

Planet–Planet Scattering and Von Zeipel–Lidov–Kozai Migration—The Dynamical History of HAT-P-11
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b79

The Magnetically Induced Radial Velocity Variation of Gliese 341 and an Upper Limit to the Mass of Its Transiting Earth-sized Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9dd3

SPOCK 2.0: Update to the FeatureClassifier in the Stability of Planetary Orbital Configurations Klassifier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15017

Effects of Thermodynamics on the Concurrent Accretion and Migration of Gas Giants in Protoplanetary Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15874

Quantifying the Impact of the Dust Torque on the Migration of Low-mass Planets II: The Role of Pebble Accretion in Planet Growth within a Global Planet Formation Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16169

January 27, 2025 updates

Minds Amid the Cosmos: The Ethics of Psychiatric Treatment During Space Travel
https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/items/2eb3a24a-6b7d-470b-b4fb-33869e7048ef

Human Enhancement and our Future Off-Earth
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1211372

The ESO SupJup Survey – IV. Unveiling the carbon isotope ratio of GQ Lup B and its host star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51936-24/aa51936-24.html

True Mass and Atmospheric Composition of the Nontransiting Hot Jupiter HD 143105 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada1d9

Long-lived magnetic field in earth-like terrestrial planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031920125000093

An arrangement to send human civilization to exoplanet from the earth
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388388958_An_arrangement_to_send_human_civilization_to_exoplanet_from_the_earth

Probing the Limits of Habitability: A Catalog of Rocky Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14054

Highly reflective white clouds on the western dayside of an exo-Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14016

The NCORES Program: Precise planetary masses, null results, and insight into the planet mass distribution near the radius gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14355

JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of the Super-Earth TOI-776b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14596

January 24, 2025 updates

A Concept of Using a Super-Large Mirror in the Solar System Orbit to Reflect Sunlight to Interstellar Space to Transmit Signals
https://preprints.opticaopen.org/articles/preprint/A_Concept_of_Using_a_Super-Large_Mirror_in_the_Solar_System_Orbit_to_Reflect_Sunlight_to_Interstellar_Space_to_Transmit_Signals/28203368

Calculating potential cumulative carbon fixed and evolutionary stage for Earthlike planets in our solar neighborhood
https://zenodo.org/records/13953278

Exoplanet discovery with variational quantum circuits
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42484-024-00229-1

Oceans under the light of moribund stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02476-z

Similar-mass versus diverse-mass planetary systems in wind-driven accretion discs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52453-24/aa52453-24.html

Connection between planetary He I λ10 830 Å absorption and extreme-ultraviolet emission of planet-host stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51680-24/aa51680-24.html

Jitter Across 15 yr: Leveraging Precise Photometry from Kepler and TESS to Extract Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Time Series
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9eb0

COOL Research DAO Whitepaper — Towards community-owned astrophysics for everyone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13160

Properties of Free Floating Planets Ejected through Planet-Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13166

Formation of Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13214

Transit-timing variations in the AU Mic system observed with CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13575

Exoplanet Occurrence Rate with Age for FGK Stars in Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13809