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 27, 2025 updates

Perpetual Push Against Spacetime [Locomotive Constraints of Relativistic Space Travel]
https://www.academia.edu/128047008/Perpetual_Push_Against_Spacetime_Locomotive_Constraints_of_Relativistic_Space_Travel_

The electromagnetic propulsion of future spacecraft
https://digital-library.theiet.org/doi/abs/10.1049/SBEW557E_ch7

Simple Lipids Form Stable Higher-Order Structures in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0124

Astrobiological implications of the stability and reactivity of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) in concentrated sulfuric acid
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr0006

Making continental crust on water-bearing terrestrial planets
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads6746

Winds on an ultrahot planet challenge climate models
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00809-6

Identification of Exoplanets using Machine Learning
https://books.aijr.org/index.php/press/catalog/book/178/chapter/3411

RV-exoplanet eccentricities: Good, Beta, and Best
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20385

Exozodiacal dust as a limitation to exoplanet imaging and spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19932

TOI-2005b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-Orbit Alignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20069

Optimising Radial Velocity Detection Limits for Southern Habitable Worlds Observatory Targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20121

March 26, 2025 updates

Life by Chemical Evolution? A Review and Evaluation of Experiments and Hypotheses
https://link.springer.com/book/9783662707517

From planetesimals to dwarf planets by pebble accretion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa53420-24/aa53420-24.html

The influence of stellar activity on detecting Earth-like planets via nulling interferometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa52725-24/aa52725-24.html

A Link between Rocky Planet Composition and Stellar Age
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf474/8093562

Transit Ephemerides and Timing Variations from Kepler and K2 to TESS
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf334/8093570

HST SHEL: Revealing Haze and Confirming Elevated Metallicity in the Warm Neptune HAT-P-26b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19290

Systematic Reanalysis of KMTNet Microlensing Events, Paper II: Two New Planets in Giant-Source Events
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19471

Compositional Outcomes of Earth Formation from a Narrow Ring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19526

Hot Rocks Survey II: The thermal emission of TOI-1468 b reveals a hot bare rock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19772

Characterising M dwarf host stars of two candidate Hycean worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19908

March 25, 2025 updates

Feasibility Analysis of Interstellar Travel from Earth to Kepler-22b Planet – Based on Time Dilation
https://www.ewadirect.com/proceedings/tns/article/view/21034

The Super-puff WASP-193 b is on a Well-aligned Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adba5f

Efficient and inefficient hydrodynamic escape of exo-satellite atmospheres driven by irradiation from their young giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18049

The Abiogenesis Timescale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18217

Detection method for periodic radio emissions from an exoplanet’s magnetosphere or a star-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18733

March 24, 2025 Updates

A Conceptual Design of a Micro-Propulsion Device Based on Alpha Particles
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096980432500140X

To Seed or Not to Seed: Estimating the Ethical Value of Directed Panspermia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652500181X

Limits on the atmospheric metallicity and aerosols of the sub-Neptune GJ 3090 b from high-resolution CRIRES+ spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16608

A parameter scan of dark zone maintenance for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets using theoretical and experimental implementations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16720

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). III. Retrieval of Planetary Masses in Binaries Using the N-body Model with RV and Astrometry Synergy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17090

Dark Matter (S)pins the Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17206

Abundances of refractory ions in Beta Pictoris exocomets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17346

On the road to the radius valley: distinguishing between gas dwarfs and water worlds with young transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17364

March 21, 2025 updates

A Philosophical Approach to CETI: Developing a Conceptual Framework Based on Umwelt Theory
https://www.academia.edu/128111921/A_Philosophical_Approach_to_CETI_Developing_a_Conceptual_Framework_Based_on_Umwelt_Theory

Evolution as Art for Interstellar Spaces
https://www.mauroannunziato.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7.-Interstellar-Art-for-SETI.pdf

Galactic Habitability
https://oxfordre.com/planetaryscience/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.001.0001/acrefore-9780190647926-e-305

Clouds and Hazes in GJ 1214 b’s Metal-rich Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb7e8

A Moderate Albedo from Reflecting Aerosols on the Dayside of WASP-80 b Revealed by JWST/NIRISS Eclipse Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15665

The Ambiguous Age and Tidal History for the Ultra-Hot Jupiter TOI-1937Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15802

Characterising the Atmosphere of 55 Cancri e: 1D Forward Model Grid for Current and Future JWST Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15844

Astrometric detection of exoplanets in face-on orbits using vortex filters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16140