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 24, 2024 updates

Could a Kilonova Kill: A Threat Assessment
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad12b7

The TRAPPIST Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI)
https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/2632-3338_focus_issue_THAI

A Novel Eccentricity Parameterization for Transit-only Models
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad1412

Characterization of K2-167 b and CALM, a new stellar activity mitigation method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12276

Chemical signatures of planet engulfment events in Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12296

Shallower radius valley around low-mass hosts provides evidence for icy planets or collisions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12378

The variable magnetic field of V889 Her and the challenge of detecting exoplanets around young Suns using Gaussian process regression
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12408

January 23, 2024 updates

How to make a habitable planet
https://www.pas.va/en/publications/acta/acta27pas/oberg.html

Photon-Sail Trajectories Towards Exoplanet Proxima b
https://research.tudelft.nl/en/publications/photon-sail-trajectories-towards-exoplanet-proxima-b

Solution of Weyl–Lanczos relations for Morris–Thorne wormhole
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10714-023-03195-4

PLATO on the shoulders of TESS: Analyzing mono-transit planet candidates in TESS data as a prior knowledge for PLATO observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae210/7582001

Interstellar Quantum Signals: Theoretical Approaches to Detecting Extraterrestrial Quantum Computing and Entanglement Communications
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377570754_Interstellar_Quantum_Signals_Theoretical_Approaches_to_Detecting_Extraterrestrial_Quantum_Computing_and_Entanglement_Communications

JWST observations of K2-18b can be explained by a gas-rich mini-Neptune with no habitable surface
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11082

MOA-2022-BLG-563Lb, KMT-2023-BLG-0469Lb, and KMT-2023-BLG-0735Lb: Three sub-Jovian-mass microlensing planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11329

Hot Jupiter Formation in Dense Star Clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11613

TRAPPIST-1 and its compact system of temperate rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11815

TOI-2266 b: a keystone super-Earth at the edge of the M dwarf radius valley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11879

Mysterious non-detection of HeI (23S) transit absorption of GJ436b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11938

Wolf 327b: A new member of the pack of ultra-short-period super-Earths around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12150

Inner Edge Habitable Zone Limits Around Main Sequence Stars: Cloudy Estimates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12204

January 22, 2024 Updates

 

Cardiovascular Challenges Beyond Earth: Investigating the Impact of Space Travel on Astronauts’ Cardiovascular Health
https://journals.lww.com/cardiologyinreview/abstract/9900/cardiovascular_challenges_beyond_earth_.194.aspx

Traversable wormholes in Finsler geometry under conformal motion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08498

Issues of Ownership and Tourism in Outer Space
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781032617961-12/issues-ownership-tourism-outer-space-attila-sipos-simran-upadhyaya

Research repertoires and boundary work in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09505431.2024.2304303

A Reply to: Large Exomoons unlikely around Kepler-1625 b and Kepler-1708 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10333

Orbital evolution of close binary systems: comparing viscous and wind-driven circumbinary disc models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10808

Characterization of K2-167 b and CALM, a new stellar activity mitigation method
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae207/7581998?searchresult=1

Gaussian Processes and Nested Sampling Applied to Kepler’s Small Long-period Exoplanet Candidates
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0fe9

JWST-TSTHigh Contrast: Asymmetries, Dust Populations, and Hints of a Collision in the β Pictoris Disk with NIRCam and MIRI
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1759

January 19, 2024 updates

High-speed scientific spacecraft launches with commercial launch vehicles
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576524000304

Behind the Mask: can HARMONI@ELT detect biosignatures in the reflected light of Proxima b?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09589

A long-period transiting substellar companion in the super-Jupiters to brown dwarfs mass regime and a prototypical warm-Jupiter detected by TESS
ttps://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09657

Formation of Retrograde Hot Jupiter Triggered by Close Encounter with Tidal Circularization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09701

PLATO on the shoulders of TESS: analyzing mono-transit planet candidates in TESS data as a prior knowledge for PLATO observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10072

January 18, 2024 updates

 

 

Sulphur dioxide in the mid-infrared transmission spectrum of WASP-39b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07040-9

Retrievals Applied to a Decision Tree Framework Can Characterize Earthlike Exoplanet Analogs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad09b1

The weird and the wonderful in our Solar System: Searching for serendipity in the Legacy Survey of Space and Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08763

Orbital Stability and Secular Dynamics of the Proxima Centauri Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08773

KMT-2023-BLG-0416, KMT-2023-BLG-1454, KMT-2023-BLG-1642: Microlensing planets identified from partially covered signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08904

Motion of Planetesimals in the Hill Sphere of the Star Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09086

Deciding technosignature search strategies: Multi-criteria fuzzy logic to find extraterrestrial intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09128