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 07, 2025 updates

A Unified Framework for Faster Than Light Travel Integrating Chronos Dimensional and HOPE Models
https://zenodo.org/records/14986299

A Case Study of Interstellar Material Delivery: α Centauri
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/adb1e9

Amplifying Resonant Repulsion with Inflated Young Planets, Overlooked Inner Planets, and Nonzero Initial Δ
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb281

A Time-Resolved High-Resolution Spectroscopic Analysis of Ionized Calcium and Dynamical Processes in the Ultra-Hot Jupiter HAT-P-70 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03814

HST Transmission Spectra of the Hot-Neptune HD 219666 b: Detection of Water and the Challenge of Constraining Both Water and Methane with HST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03895

Rapid characterization of exoplanet atmospheres with the Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy Imager (ETSI)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03931

MIRI-LRS spectrum of a cold exoplanet around a white dwarf: water, ammonia, and methane measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04531

Parameter degeneracies associated with interpreting HST WFC3 transmission spectra of exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04600

HD 163296 and its Giant Planets: Creation of Exo-comets, Interstellar Objects and Transport of Volatile Material
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04669

March 06, 2025 updates

Early Accretion of Large Amounts of Solids for Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb42c

Planets larger than Neptune have elevated eccentricities
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2405295122

Decoding planetary surfaces by counting cracks
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411738122

Positive Feedback: How a Synergy Between the Streaming Instability and Dust Coagulation Forms Planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03105

March 05, 2025 updates

Suspended Animation, Gateway to a Second Life and Interstellar Travel
https://zenodo.org/records/14970066

GASTLI (GAS gianT modeL for Interiors)
https://zenodo.org/records/14968001

Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics as a Scalable Solution to the Exoplanet Opacity Challenge: A Case Study of CO2 in a Hydrogen Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb02e

How Habitable Are M Dwarf Exoplanets? Modeling Surface Conditions and Exploring the Role of Melanins in the Survival of Aspergillus niger Spores Under Exoplanet-Like Radiation
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0023

Water dissociation and rotational broadening in the atmosphere of KELT-20 b from high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01946

The stochastic nature of migration of disc instability protoplanets in three-dimensional hydrodynamical and MHD simulations of fragmenting discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01973

Extension of the creep tide theory to exoplanet systems with high stellar obliquity. The dynamic tide of CoRoT-3b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02193

No Robust Statistical Evidence for a Population of Water Worlds in a 2025 Sample of Planets Orbiting M Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.02451

March 04, 2025 updates

Planning Under Uncertainty with Unreliable Robotic Actuators
https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/items/e9898669-8319-4d34-87e9-a80e0c9b0168

The JWST Weather Report from the Isolated Exoplanet Analog SIMP 0136+0933: Pressure-dependent Variability Driven by Multiple Mechanisms
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad9eaf

Biological, Equilibrium and Photochemical Signatures of C, N and S Isotopes in the Early Earth and Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/3/398

Earth’s magnetic field and its relationship to the origin of life, evolution, and planetary habitability
https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf082/8051343

Statistical Reevaluation of the Ultra-short-period Planet Classification Boundary: Smaller Planets within 1 Day, Larger Period Ratios below 2 Days
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb487

Evidence for Primordial Alignment II: Insights from Stellar Obliquity Measurements for Hot Jupiters in Compact Multiplanet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9dd5

Thermal Phase Curves in Hot Gas Giant Exoplanets Exhibit a Complex Dependence on Planetary Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00208

Formation of Ultra-short-period Planet in Hot Jupiter Systems: Application to WASP-47
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00872

Quantified Estimation of Molecular Detections across Different Classes of Neptunian Atmospheres Using Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy: Prospects for Future Extremely Large Telescopes with High-Resolution Spectrographs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01142

A Population Synthesis Study on the Formation of Cold Jupiters from Truncated Planetesimal Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01570

Gone with the wind: the outward migration of eccentric giant planets in windy disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01745

March 03, 2025 Updates

Detecting Post-Biological and Interdimensional Civilizations: A New Framework Based on the Universal Law of Balance
https://philpapers.org/rec/MALDPA-7

Multibeam SETI Observations toward Nearby M dwarfs with FAST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20419

Simple molecules and complex chemistry in a protoplanetary disk: A JWST investigation of the highly inclined disk d216-0939
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20472

JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of TOI-776 c, a 2 Rearth M Dwarf Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20501

Revised Mass and Orbit of ε Eridani b: A 1 Jupiter-Mass Planet on a Near-Circular Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20561

Space science & the space economy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20922

Searching for GEMS: TOI-5688 A b, a Low-density Giant Orbiting a High-metallicity Early M-dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada7ea