Interstellar Updates

Is There Future Potential For ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Travel Through Dark Energy Sources? An Exploratory Review
https://ierj.in/journal/index.php/ierj/article/view/2836

Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology
https://books.google.com/books?id=LpfiEAAAQBAJ&dq=interstellar+exploration&lr=lang_en&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Membrane Models as a Means of Propulsion in General Relativity: Super-Luminal Warp-Drive that Satisfies the Weak Energy Condition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07193

SO2, silicate clouds, but no CH4 detected in a warm Neptune
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06849-0

Scaling K2. VII. Evidence For a High Occurrence Rate of Hot Sub-Neptunes at Intermediate Ages
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acf9f9

CHEOPS and TESS view of the ultra-short-period super-Earth TOI-561 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa44946-22/aa44946-22.html

Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars – III. Planet candidates and long-term activity signals in six open clusters
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa46890-23/aa46890-23.html

On the orbital decay of the gas giant Kepler – 1658 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3530/7424149

The Impact of the Free-floating Planet Mass Function on the Event Rate for Accurate Microlensing Parallax Determination: Application to Euclid and Roman Parallax Observation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad05c1

Corrigendum: “Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting M Dwarfs with James Webb Space Telescope” (2021, PASP, 133, 054401)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acf5a3

A cool runaway greenhouse without surface magma ocean
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08444

Deconstructing Alien Hunting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08476

Does Gaia Play Dice? Simple Models of Non-Darwinian Selection
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0036

Is There Such a Thing as a Biosignature?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0042

Benefits of Spin Polarization for Inertial and Magneto-Inertial Fusion Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.B39138

A Solution to Continuous RFI in Narrowband Radio SETI with FAST: The MultiBeam Point-source Scanning Strategy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad06b1

BICEPS: An improved characterization model for low- and intermediate-mass exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202346965

Candidates for Transiting Planets in OGLE-IV Galactic Bulge Fields
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07647

The life cycle of stars and their planets from the high energy perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07674

Critique of arXiv submission 2308.15623, “Discovery of Spherules of Likely Extrasolar Composition in the Pacific Ocean Site of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 (IM1) Bolide”, by A. Loeb et al
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07699

University of Edinburgh Astrobiology PhD Projects 2024
https://ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fellowships/phd-studentships/astrobiology-phd-projects

University of Edinburgh Exoplanet PhD Projects 2024
https://ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fellowships/phd-studentships/exoplanet-phd-projects

Breakthrough results in astrobiology: is ‘high risk’ research needed?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/breakthrough-results-in-astrobiology-is-high-risk-research-needed/28182A8779A3F284993FFE3F28E0B49D

Astronomical and Cosmochemical Aspects of the Life Origin Problem
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772923080073

Effects of general relativity on habitable zone particles under the presence of an inner perturber around solar-mass stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stad3491/7419866

JWST Measurements of 13C, 18O, and 17O in the Atmosphere of Super-Jupiter VHS 1256 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad07e2

TESS Giants Transiting Giants V — Two hot Jupiters orbiting red-giant hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06678

Controls of Atmospheric Methane on Early Earth and Inhabited Earth-like Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06882

Kepler Multi-Transiting Systems Physical Properties and Impact Parameter Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06941

TOI-1736 and TOI-2141: two systems including sub-Neptunes around solar analogs revealed by TESS and SOPHIE h
ttps://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07011

The apparent tidal decay of WASP-4 b can be explained by the Rømer effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07098

Spright: a probabilistic mass-density-radius relation for small planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07255

Retrievals Applied To A Decision Tree Framework Can Characterize Earth-like Exoplanet Analogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07530

Black Holes and Warp Drive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06757

Design and Analysis of the Technical Infrastructure for a Self-Sufficient and Sustainable Intergalactic Hub
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Akinwumi/publication/375338016_Design_and_Analysis_of_the_Technical_Infrastructure_for_a_Self-Sufficient_and_Sustainable_Intergalactic_Hub/links/6546eff73fa26f66f4d5fe9e/Design-and-Analysis-of-the-Technical-Infrastructure-for-a-Self-Sufficient-and-Sustainable-Intergalactic-Hub.pdf

Inferring Chemical Disequilibrium Biosignatures for Proterozoic Earth-Like Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.06083

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. III. Recovery and Confirmation of a Temperate, Mildly Eccentric, Single-transit Jupiter Orbiting TOI-2010
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad00bc

New spherically symmetric wormhole solutions in f(Q)-gravity theory
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ad0820

Exploring the Ability of Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 G141 to Uncover Trends in Populations of Exoplanet Atmospheres through a Homogeneous Transmission Survey of 70 Gaseous Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac9f1a

Exoplanet Science From Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04981

Staring at the Sun with the Keck Planet Finder: An Autonomous Solar Calibrator for High Signal-to-Noise Sun-as-a-Star Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05129

The tidal excitation of r modes in a solar type star orbited by a giant planet companion and the effect on orbital evolution II: The effect of tides in the misaligned case
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05271

JWST measurements of 13C, 18O and 17O in the atmosphere of super-Jupiter VHS 1256 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05349

The “Drake equation” of exomoons — a cascade of formation, stability and detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.05390