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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October 06, 2023 updates

The Activity of a Solar-Type Star TOI-1422 and Mass Loss of the Atmosphere of the Planet TOI-1422b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772923070089

Application of the Thermodynamics of Radiation to Dyson Spheres as Work Extractors and Computational Engines and Their Observational Consequences
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acf44f

JWST transmission spectroscopy of HD 209458b: a super-solar metallicity, a very low C/O, and no evidence of CH4, HCN, or C2H2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03245

Dynamical Architectures of S-type Transiting Planets in Binaries I: Target Selection using Hipparcos and Gaia proper motion anomalies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03299

On the effect of tidal deformation on planetary phase curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03553

Where are the Water Worlds? Identifying the Exo-water-worlds Using Models of Planet Formation and Atmospheric Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03593

Methods for Incorporating Model Uncertainty into Exoplanet Atmospheric Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03713

October 05, 2023 updates

Transgenic Plant Technology and its Role in Bioremediation
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119989318.ch19

Linking Topological Superconductors to the Sun and Planets to Generate Electric and Magnetic Fields As Well As Stellar “Fusion” Power
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodney-Bartlett-2/publication/374234723_Linking_Topological_Superconductors_to_the_Sun_and_Planets_to_Generate_Electric_and_Magnetic_Fields_As_Well_As_Stellar_Fusion_Power/links/6515628f37d0df2448f4790f/Linking-Topological-Superconductors-to-the-Sun-and-Planets-to-Generate-Electric-and-Magnetic-Fields-As-Well-As-Stellar-Fusion-Power.pdf

Exploring the viability of static spherical wormholes in f(G, T) gravity
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04526-9

Exoplanet Detection Using Feature Engineering with Ensemble Learning
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10266186

GJ 357 d: Potentially Habitable World or Agent of Chaos?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02327

Plausibility of Capture into High-Obliquity States for Exoplanets in the M Dwarf Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02332

Extended habitability of exoplanets due to subglacial water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02452

Earth as an Exoplanet. III. Using Empirical Thermal Emission Spectra as Input for Atmospheric Retrieval of an Earth-Twin Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.02634

October 04, 2023 updates

Prospects for Cryovolcanic Activity on Cold Ocean Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ace9b6

Reading Between the Lines: Investigating the Ability of JWST to Identify Discerning Features in exoEarth and exoVenus Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01527

Hot Jupiters Have Giant Companions: Evidence for Coplanar High-Eccentricity Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01567

Super-Earth LHS3844b is tidally locked
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01725

October 03, 2023 updates

Fitting the Light Curve of 1I/’Oumuamua with a Nonprincipal Axis Rotational Model and Outgassing Torques
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acf617

TOI 4201 b and TOI 5344 b: Discovery of Two Transiting Giant Planets around M-dwarf Stars and Revised Parameters for Three Others
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/acf56e

Outgassing Composition of the Murchison Meteorite: Implications for Volatile Depletion of Planetesimals and Interior-atmosphere Connections for Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/acf760

Spectral Retrieval with JWST Photometric data: a Case Study for HIP 65426 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00089

First VLTI/GRAVITY Observations of HIP 65426 b: Evidence for a Low or Moderate Orbital Eccentricity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00148

Surrounded by Giants: Habitable Zone Stability Within the HD 141399 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00860

Hydrodynamical modelling of tidal dissipation in gas giant planets at the time of space missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01031

Reconstructing Atmospheric Parameters of Exoplanets Using Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01227

Solvent constraints for biopolymer folding and evolution in extraterrestrial environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00067