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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November 3, 2023 updates

SOLES. VII. The Spin–Orbit Alignment of WASP-106 b, a Warm Jupiter along the Kraft Break
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad0131

Rogue worlds meet the dark side: revealing terrestrial-mass primordial black holes with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00751

Potential Melting of Extrasolar Planets by Tidal Dissipation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01187

Evolution of helium triplet transits of close-in gas giants orbiting K-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01313

Search for the wide-orbit massive companion of XO-7b in the follow-up radial-velocity and transit-timing data: no significant clues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01402

November 2, 2023 updates

Wormholes and energy conditions in Rastall-Rainbow Gravity
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3480396/v1

Non-coplanar gravitational lenses and the “communication bridge”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15957

A compact multi-planet system transiting HIP 29442 (TOI-469) discovered by TESS and ESPRESSO – Radial velocities lead to the detection of transits with low signal-to-noise ratio
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/11/aa47240-23/aa47240-23.html

Refraction of Line and Continuum Light in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aceaf1

Workshop Summary: Exoplanet Orbits and Dynamics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acff88

CCD imagers for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite from benchtop to space environment
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20230139

Stellar spectral-type (mass) dependence of the dearth of close-in planets around fast-rotating stars. Architecture of Kepler confirmed single-exoplanet systems compared to star-planet evolution models https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00108

Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus on Accuracy and Orbital Periods
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00238

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). V. The evolution of hot Jupiters revealed by the age distribution of their host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00305

Outcomes of Planetary Collisions: Importance of Gravity and Material Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00516

Keck and Hubble Observations Show That MOA-2008-BLG-379Lb Is a Super-Jupiter Orbiting an M Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00627

VaTEST III: Validation of 8 Potential Super-Earths from TESS Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00688

October 31, 2023 updates

Gravitational lensing for interstellar power transmission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17578

Shadows and photon spheres in static and rotating traversable wormholes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16916

2023 Astrophotonics Roadmap: pathways to realizing multi-functional integrated astrophotonic instruments
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7647/ace869

Signs of Similar Stellar Obliquity Distributions for Hot and Warm Jupiters Orbiting Cool Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18445

Using Lyman-α transits to constrain models of atmospheric escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18486

Secular Orbital Dynamics of the Possibly Habitable Planet K2-18 b with and without the Proposed Inner Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18754

Thermal conductivity of MgO in giant planetary interior conditions predicted by deep potential
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18876

Radiative Transfer and Inversion codes for characterizing planetary atmospheres: an overview
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19476

AC Her: Evidence of the first polar circumbinary planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19600

TransitFit: combined multi-instrument exoplanet transit fitting for JWST, HST and ground-based transmission spectroscopy studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12139

The Importance of the Upper Atmosphere to CO/O2 Runaway on Habitable Planets Orbiting Low-Mass Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08752

October 30, 2023 Updates

A roadmap to the efficient and robust characterization of temperate terrestrial planet atmospheres with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15895

Life from Outer Space: Overview on the Presence of DNA, RNA Associated BioMolecules – Amino Acids, Nucleobases, Sugars and Water Molecules in Meteorites and Carbonaceous Chondrites
https://www.researchtrend.net/bfij/pdf/Life-from-Outer-Space-Overview-on-the-Presence-of-DNA,-RNA-Associated-Bio-Molecules-%E2%80%93-Amino-Acids,-Nucleobases,-Sugars-and-Water-Molecules-in-Meteorites-and-Carbonaceous-Chondrites-Shivakumar-R-126.pdf

Biosignature, Technosignature, Event: Deconstruction, Astrobiology, and the Search for a Wholly Other Origin
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/drt.2023.0312

Dynamical aspects of Galactic habitability in N-body simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16227

Traversable wormholes in Rastall-Rainbow gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221268642300198X

Identifying SuperWASP Detected Candidate Variables with TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad06b9

Hidden Companions to Intermediate-mass Stars. XI. Uncovering a 0.7 M⊙, 2.3 au Companion in the Astrometric Binary HIP 111200 = 58 Aquarii
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad05d0

Constraints to Efficiently Find Interstellar Object Generated Craters on the Moon
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad0731

Kepler Bonus: Light Curves of Kepler Background Sources
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17733

Global Chemical Transport on Hot Jupiters: Insights from 2D VULCAN photochemical model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17751

Formation of giant planets around intermediate-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17767