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 05, 2025 updates

Suspended Animation, Gateway to a Second Life and Interstellar Travel
https://zenodo.org/records/14970066

GASTLI (GAS gianT modeL for Interiors)
https://zenodo.org/records/14968001

Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics as a Scalable Solution to the Exoplanet Opacity Challenge: A Case Study of CO2 in a Hydrogen Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb02e

How Habitable Are M Dwarf Exoplanets? Modeling Surface Conditions and Exploring the Role of Melanins in the Survival of Aspergillus niger Spores Under Exoplanet-Like Radiation
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0023

Water dissociation and rotational broadening in the atmosphere of KELT-20 b from high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01946

The stochastic nature of migration of disc instability protoplanets in three-dimensional hydrodynamical and MHD simulations of fragmenting discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01973

Extension of the creep tide theory to exoplanet systems with high stellar obliquity. The dynamic tide of CoRoT-3b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02193

No Robust Statistical Evidence for a Population of Water Worlds in a 2025 Sample of Planets Orbiting M Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02451

March 04, 2025 updates

Planning Under Uncertainty with Unreliable Robotic Actuators
https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/items/e9898669-8319-4d34-87e9-a80e0c9b0168

The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad9eaf

Biological, Equilibrium and Photochemical Signatures of C, N and S Isotopes in the Early Earth and Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/398

Earth’s magnetic field and its relationship to the origin of life, evolution, and planetary habitability
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf082/8051343

Statistical Reevaluation of the Ultra-short-period Planet Classification Boundary: Smaller Planets within 1 Day, Larger Period Ratios below 2 Days
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb487

Evidence for Primordial Alignment II: Insights from Stellar Obliquity Measurements for Hot Jupiters in Compact Multiplanet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9dd5

Thermal Phase Curves in Hot Gas Giant Exoplanets Exhibit a Complex Dependence on Planetary Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00208

Formation of Ultra-short-period Planet in Hot Jupiter Systems: Application to WASP-47
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00872

Quantified Estimation of Molecular Detections across Different Classes of Neptunian Atmospheres Using Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy: Prospects for Future Extremely Large Telescopes with High-Resolution Spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01142

A Population Synthesis Study on the Formation of Cold Jupiters from Truncated Planetesimal Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01570

Gone with the wind: the outward migration of eccentric giant planets in windy disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01745

March 03, 2025 Updates

Detecting Post-Biological and Interdimensional Civilizations: A New Framework Based on the Universal Law of Balance
https://philpapers.org/rec/MALDPA-7

Multibeam SETI Observations toward Nearby M dwarfs with FAST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20419

Simple molecules and complex chemistry in a protoplanetary disk: A JWST investigation of the highly inclined disk d216-0939
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20472

JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of TOI-776 c, a 2 Rearth M Dwarf Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20501

Revised Mass and Orbit of ε Eridani b: A 1 Jupiter-Mass Planet on a Near-Circular Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20561

Space science & the space economy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20922

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5688 A b, a Low-density Giant Orbiting a High-metallicity Early M-dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada7ea

February 28, 2025 updates

Energy needed to propel a tiny spacecraft to Proxima Centauri,and, an unstated assumption in Einstein’s 1905 paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04331v1

Comment on work of Umrigar and Anderson “Energy needed to propel a tiny spacecraft to Proxima Centauri, and, an unstated assumption in Einstein’s 1905 paper”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15818

A closer look at LTT 9779b:The ESPRESSO endeavour to pierce the atmospheric veil
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa51044-24/aa51044-24.html

Intermediate-mass stars and the origin of the gas-giant planet-metallicity correlation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa53328-24/aa53328-24.html

Exoplanet Ephemerides Change Observations (ExoEcho). I. Transit Timing Analysis of 37 Exoplanets Using HST/WFC3 Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada95d

Habitability in 4D: Predicting the Climates of Earth Analogs across Rotation and Orbital Configurations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada3c8

Stellar Models Also Limit Exoplanet Atmosphere Studies in Emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19585

Exploring the atmosphere of GJ 1132 b with CRIRES+
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19932

High-contrast spectroscopy with the new VLT/ERIS instrument: Molecular maps and radial velocity of the gas giant AF Lep b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19961

Observational Signatures of a Previous Dynamical Instability in Multi-planet M-Dwarf Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20337

Gravitational Effects of a Small Primordial Black Hole Passing Through the Human Body
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09734

Characterization of AF Lep b at high spectral resolution with VLT/HiRISE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19558

February 27, 2025 updates

Inflatable Starshade for Earthlike Exoplanets
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/niac/inflatable-starshade-for-earthlike-exoplanets/

Formation of free-floating planetary mass objects via circumstellar disk encounters
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu6058

Prospects for Systematic Planetary Nebulae Detection with the Census of the Local Universe Narrowband Survey
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/adb4a0

The Gl 229 System Revisited with the Line-by-line Framework: Planetary Signals Now Appear as Stellar Activity Ghosts
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada77a

The Effects of the Carbon-to-oxygen Ratio on the Condensate Compositions around Solar-like Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adaead

The Membership and Age of the Planet-hosting Young Star IRAS 04125+2902
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb0cd

The effect of out-of-equilibrium outgassing on the cooling of planetary magma oceans
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103525000600

Cross-Model Validation of Coronagraphic Exposure Time Calculators for the Habitable Worlds Observatory: A Report from the Exoplanet Science Yield sub-Working Group
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18556

ELemental abundances of Planets and brown dwarfs Imaged around Stars (ELPIS): II. The Jupiter-like Inhomogeneous Atmosphere of the First Directly Imaged Planetary-Mass Companion 2MASS 1207 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18559

Halting the migration of super-Earths by efficient gap opening in radiative, low viscosity disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18564

Comprehensive Parameter Determination of Exoplanet through Asteroseismic Host Star Constraints
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18769

Tunable Kernel-Nulling interferometry for direct exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19055

Limited hysteresis in the atmospheric dynamics of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19394