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 23, 2025 updates

Potential Additional Problems for Mass Effect Drives and Their Solutions Thanks to the Square-Cube Law
https://zenodo.org/records/14692200

TOI-2458 b: A mini-Neptune consistent with in situ hot Jupiter formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51057-24/aa51057-24.html

Potential Interior Structures and Habitability of Super-Earth Exoplanets LHS 1140 b, K2-18 b, TOI-1452 b, and TOI-1468 c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9ba9

Tides on Lava Worlds: Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth–Moon System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b93

Potential Technosignature from Anomalously Low Deuterium/Hydrogen in Planetary Water Depleted by Nuclear Fusion Technology
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad99a9

FindPOTATOs: Minor Planet Observation Linking Software
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad94eb

Cosmic ray-driven bioenergetics for Life in Molecular Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12816

Resonance Capture and Stability Analysis for Planet Pairs under Type I Disk Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12650

ExoSim 2: the new Exoplanet Observation Simulator applied to the Ariel space mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12809

January 22, 2025 updates

Ziggy
https://zenodo.org/records/14715146

The growth of super-large pre-planetary pebbles to an impact erosion limit
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02470-x

PolyCLEAN: Atomic optimization for super-resolution imaging and uncertainty estimation in radio interferometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa50970-24/aa50970-24.html

Machine-learning approach for mapping stable orbits around planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51831-24/aa51831-24.html

Eccentric planet-disc interactions: orbital migration and eccentricity evolution
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf117/7965967

Hot Casimir wormholes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/01/081

Eight New Candidate Multiplanet Systems among TESS Objects of Interest
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9a6c

Planetary Mass Determinations from a Simplified Photodynamical Model—Application to the Complete Kepler Dataset
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad91a7

Searching for substellar companion candidates with Gaia. III. Search for companions to members of young associations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10488

Near-circular orbits for planets around M/K-type stars with Earth-like sizes and instellations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10571

Accurate and thermodynamically consistent hydrogen equation of state for planetary modeling with flow matching
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10594

A One-Dimensional Energy Balance Model Parameterization for the Formation of CO2 Ice on the Surfaces of Eccentric Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11667

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). V. Complete observations, data reduction and analysis, detection performances, and final results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12002

DECH: Software Package for Astronomical Spectral Data Processing and Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12207

Orbital Stability of Hierarchical 3 and 4-Body Systems with Inclination: Results for Kepler-1625, 1708, and HD 23079
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12258

January 21, 2025 updates

Potential Additional Problems for Mass Effect Drives and Their Solutions Thanks to the Square-Cube Law
https://zenodo.org/records/14692200

CRIRES+ transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127 b – Detection of the resolved signatures of a supersonic equatorial jet and cool poles in a hot planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa50438-24/aa50438-24.html

Ohmic heating in the upper atmosphere of hot exoplanets – The influence of a time-varying magnetic field
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52641-24/aa52641-24.html

Prospects for biological evolution on Hycean worlds
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf094/7964882

Are Stars Really Ingesting Their Planets? Examining an Alternative Explanation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada1d5

January 20, 2025 updates

Recent Developments in Exoplanet Observation Techniques
https://zenodo.org/records/14653318

Activity of the Star TOI-6255 and Atmospheric Mass Loss from its Planet
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-025-09846-5

Ohmic heating in the upper atmosphere of hot exoplanets – The influence of a time-varying magnetic field
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52641-24/aa52641-24.html

Eighteen Exoplanet Host Stars from the NPOI Data Archive
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9bb1

Implications of f(R, Lm) theory on the existence of charged wormhole solutions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0577907325000267

Similar-mass versus diverse-mass planetary systems in wind-driven accretion discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09882

Unveiling the Interior Structure and Thermal Evolution of Super-Earth GJ 486b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09963

January 17, 2025 updates

Exploring the Entanglement of Biosignatures and Technosignatures: A Quantum Perspective
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387960793_Exploring_the_Entanglement_of_Biosignatures_and_Technosignatures_A_Quantum_Perspective

Emulationism: Cybernetics to Answer Fermi Paradox
https://philarchive.org/rec/ISHECT

Production of abiotic or biogenic hydrocarbons on rock particles in the presence of H2O and carbon compounds
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-025-86121-9

Array of metabolic pathways in a kleptoplastidic foraminiferan protist supports chemoautotrophy in dark, euxinic seafloor sediments
https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae248/7923457

Ohmic heating in the upper atmosphere of hot exoplanets – The influence of a time-varying magnetic field
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52641-24/aa52641-24.html

Where in the Milky Way Do Exoplanets Preferentially Form?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20240076

Background exoplanet candidates in the original Kepler field
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09152

On the robustness of exoplanet atmospheric detections: insights from extensive simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09494

A Pair of Dynamically Interacting Sub-Neptunes Around TOI-6054
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09095

Planetary Rhythms: Synchronous Circulation on Variably Irradiated Asynchronous Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09644

The Physics of Life: Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08683