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 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

January 17, 2024 updates

To Sample or Not to Sample: Retrieving Exoplanetary Spectra with Variational Inference and Normalizing Flows
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad063f

Alternative solvents for life: framework for evaluation, current status and future research
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07296

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): XII. The Detectability of Capstone Biosignatures in the Mid-Infrared — Sniffing Exoplanetary Laughing Gas and Methylated Halogens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08492

January 16, 2024 updates

Atmospheric properties of AF Lep b with forward modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05491

Challenges and possibilities of silicon-based life: Exploring an alternative to carbon.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377266623_Challenges_and_possibilities_of_silicon-based_life_Exploring_an_alternative_to_carbon

A Posthuman Architectural Artificial Intelligence Speculum? Text and Images in Future Spaces
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ad.3010

Iron-sulfur chemistry can explain the ultraviolet absorber in the clouds of Venus
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg8826

Pulsation in TESS Objects of Interest
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0b0a

The Once-canceled Habitable-zone Super-Earth Gliese 581d Might Indeed Exist!
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad1de4

Using the eccentric version of the restricted three-body problem to model exosolar systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960077924000250

Organic hazes as a source of life’s building blocks to warm little ponds on the Hadean Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06212

January 15, 2024 updates

Creation of closed ecological life support systems: results, critical problems and potentials
https://uchimsya.com/a/siX13dYb

Earths are not Super-Earths, Saturns are not Jupiters: Imprints of pressure-bump planet formation on planetary architectures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06217

Studying habitability of the exoplanets Kepler-504 b, Kepler-315 b, and Kepler-315 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06269

The compact multi-planet system GJ 9827 revisited with ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06276

A 3D picture of moist-convection inhibition in hydrogen-rich atmospheres: Implications for K2-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06608

Detection Sensitivities from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad1cf0

21st-Century Posthuman Spaceship and Spacecraft Architectures
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.3022

Posthuman Space Architecture: Machine Worlds to Seed Space
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.3021

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets XIX. A system including a cold sub-Neptune potentially transiting a V = 6.5 star HD 88986
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/01/aa47897-23/aa47897-23.html

FlopPITy: Enabling self-consistent exoplanet atmospheric retrievals with machine learning
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/01/aa48367-23/aa48367-23.html

Mass Loss from the Atmosphere of the Planet WASP-193 b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-024-09803-8

January 12, 2024 updates

A New 2D Energy Balance Model for Simulating the Climates of Rapidly and Slowly Rotating Terrestrial Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad0729

Evaporation of Close-in Sub-Neptunes by Cooling White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05540

Distinguishing oceans of water from magma on mini-Neptune K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05864

Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP) I: Nine Newly Confirmed Hot Jupiters from the TESS Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05923

JWST/NIRCam Transmission Spectroscopy of the Nearby Sub-Earth GJ 341b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06043

Interstellar Photovoltaics for Exploring Alien Solar Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06124