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 31, 2025 Updates

In Search of the Rule of Law: On Cybersecurity, Time Travel, and Interstellar Exploration
https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/azlawjet/article/id/8093/

Exploring the Alcubierre Warp Drive Ship
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=141629

A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini-Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N, and CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa51180-24/aa51180-24.html

Deflection angle around generic traversable wormhole solutions and energy conditions in extended teleparallel theory of gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0550321325000914

Detectability of oxygen fugacity regimes in the magma ocean world 55 Cancri e at high spectral resolution
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf466/8099933

CETRA: A fast, sensitive exoplanet transit detection algorithm implemented for GPUs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf512/8099934

Optimising Radial Velocity Detection Limits for Southern Habitable Worlds Observatory Targets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf503/8099936

The Proxima Centauri Campaign — First Constraints On Millimeter Flare Rates from ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21890

Dust-void evolution driven by turbulent dust flux can induce runaway migration of Earth-mass planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21922

Measurement of Methane Line Broadening in Hot Hydrogen/Helium Atmospheres at λ = 1.60-1.63 μm for Substellar Object Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22031

AT2021uey: A planetary microlensing event outside the Galactic bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22331

Clouds and Hazes in GJ 1214b’s Metal-Rich Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22608

The atmospheric entry of cometary impactors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22632

The radiative effects of photochemical hazes on the atmospheric circulation and phase curves of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22642

March 28, 2025 updates

The Centauri Star System -An Overview of Our Nearest Stellar Neighbors
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390132969_The_Centauri_Star_System_-An_Overview_of_Our_Nearest_Stellar_Neighbors

The atmospheric entry of cometary impactors
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf507/8098221

Substellar Landmass Fraction and Atmospheric Circulation Regimes of Ultrashort-period Rocky Planets around White Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb845

Cometary Observations in Light-Polluted Environments: A case study of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21045

An Upper Limit on the Interstellar Meteoroid Flux at Video Sizes from the Global Meteor Network
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19042

CETRA: A fast, sensitive exoplanet transit detection algorithm implemented for GPUs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20875

Enabling Robust Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals with Gaussian Processes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21702

Eclipse Timing Variations of Circumbinary Substellar Objects in TESS Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20900

Structure and Melting of Fe, MgO, SiO2, and MgSiO3 in Planets: Database, Inversion, and Phase Diagram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21734

March 27, 2025 updates

Perpetual Push Against Spacetime [Locomotive Constraints of Relativistic Space Travel]
https://www.academia.edu/128047008/Perpetual_Push_Against_Spacetime_Locomotive_Constraints_of_Relativistic_Space_Travel_

The electromagnetic propulsion of future spacecraft
https://digital-library.theiet.org/doi/abs/10.1049/SBEW557E_ch7

Simple Lipids Form Stable Higher-Order Structures in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0124

Astrobiological implications of the stability and reactivity of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) in concentrated sulfuric acid
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr0006

Making continental crust on water-bearing terrestrial planets
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads6746

Winds on an ultrahot planet challenge climate models
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00809-6

Identification of Exoplanets using Machine Learning
https://books.aijr.org/index.php/press/catalog/book/178/chapter/3411

RV-exoplanet eccentricities: Good, Beta, and Best
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20385

Exozodiacal dust as a limitation to exoplanet imaging and spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19932

TOI-2005b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-Orbit Alignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20069

Optimising Radial Velocity Detection Limits for Southern Habitable Worlds Observatory Targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20121

March 26, 2025 updates

Life by Chemical Evolution? A Review and Evaluation of Experiments and Hypotheses
https://link.springer.com/book/9783662707517

From planetesimals to dwarf planets by pebble accretion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa53420-24/aa53420-24.html

The influence of stellar activity on detecting Earth-like planets via nulling interferometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa52725-24/aa52725-24.html

A Link between Rocky Planet Composition and Stellar Age
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf474/8093562

Transit Ephemerides and Timing Variations from Kepler and K2 to TESS
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf334/8093570

HST SHEL: Revealing Haze and Confirming Elevated Metallicity in the Warm Neptune HAT-P-26b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19290

Systematic Reanalysis of KMTNet Microlensing Events, Paper II: Two New Planets in Giant-Source Events
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19471

Compositional Outcomes of Earth Formation from a Narrow Ring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19526

Hot Rocks Survey II: The thermal emission of TOI-1468 b reveals a hot bare rock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19772

Characterising M dwarf host stars of two candidate Hycean worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19908

March 25, 2025 updates

Feasibility Analysis of Interstellar Travel from Earth to Kepler-22b Planet – Based on Time Dilation
https://www.ewadirect.com/proceedings/tns/article/view/21034

The Super-puff WASP-193 b is on a Well-aligned Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adba5f

Efficient and inefficient hydrodynamic escape of exo-satellite atmospheres driven by irradiation from their young giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18049

The Abiogenesis Timescale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18217

Detection method for periodic radio emissions from an exoplanet’s magnetosphere or a star-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18733