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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December 6, 2023 updates

Dynamics and clouds in planetary atmospheres from telescopic observations
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00159-023-00150-9

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Technosignature Search of 97 Nearby Galaxies
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acf576

Polarization Criterion in Targeted SETI Observation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0be8

Kepler-discovered Multiple-planet Systems Near Period Ratios Suggestive of Mean-motion Resonances Are Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02260

Statistical Distribution Function of Orbital Spacings in Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02349

WASP-69b’s Escaping Envelope is Confined to a Tail Extending at Least Seven Planet Radii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02381

High-resolution transmission spectroscopy of ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b with NEID
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02413

December 5, 2023 updates

The Origin of Life in the Universe
https://zestjournal.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/1

The Cosmic Quest For Life
https://www.ultra-unlimited.com/blog/the-cosmic-quest-for-life

Hadean Earth
https://www.everand.com/book/577378281/Hadean-Earth

Development of Solar Sail for Interstellar Exploration
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38446-2_22

Minimal Crew Size and Sensitive Reproductive Parameters on Multigenerational Interstellar Travel
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-076-08-0288/

Self-consistent simulation of photoelectrons in exoplanet winds: Faster ionisation and weaker mass-loss rates
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/12/aa47066-23/aa47066-23.html

Limits on the Detection of an Ultra-short-period Planet in the TOI-539 System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad1113

Message in a Bottle—An Update to the Golden Record: 1. Objectives and Key Content of the Message
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023EA003042

Genesis of the Other: The Evolution of Existential Philosophy in an Isolated AI on a Sterile Exoplanet
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376184076_Genesis_of_the_Other_The_Evolution_of_Existential_Philosophy_in_an_Isolated_AI_on_a_Sterile_Exoplanet

Saltire — A model to measure dynamical masses for high-contrast binaries and exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01924

The GPU Phase Folding and Deep Learning Method for Detecting Exoplanet Transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02063

OGLE-2019-BLG-1180Lb: Discovery of a Wide-orbit Jupiter-mass Planet around a Late-type Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01278

Two long-period giant planets around two giant stars: HD 112570 and HD 154391
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.01388

December 4, 2023 Updates

Evaluation and Synthesis of four Extraterrestrial civilization Classification Systems
https://nhsjs.com/2023/evaluation-and-synthesis-of-four-extraterrestrial-civilization-classification-systems/

Atmospheric Escape From Three Terrestrial Planets in the L 98-59 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00062

Atmospheric metallicity and C/O of HD 189733 b from high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00141

Initial Results From the First Field Expedition of UAPx to Study Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00558

December 1, 2023 updates

Development of Solar Sail for Interstellar Exploration
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38446-2_22

A Neptune-mass exoplanet in close orbit around a very low-mass star challenges formation models
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo0233

Detecting Biosignatures in Nearby Rocky Exoplanets using High-Contrast Imaging and Medium-Resolution Spectroscopy with Extremely Large Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18117

Scaling K2 VII: Evidence for a high occurrence rate of hot sub-Neptunes at intermediate ages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18709