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 22, 2024 updates

Analyzing the acceleration time and reflectance of light sails made from homogeneous and core-shell spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13494

Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary
https://www.routledge.com/Science-Fiction-as-Legal-Imaginary/Green-Travis-Tranter/p/book/9781032534374

Warm Jupiters around M dwarfs are great opportunities for extensive chemical, cloud, and haze characterisation with JWST
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50761-24/aa50761-24.html

Low-resolution transit spectroscopy of three hot jupiters using the 2m Himalayan Chandra Telescope
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2396/7829286

Traversable wormhole solutions utilizing the Karmarkar condition in f(R,G) gravity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1572-9494/ad745f

Up, Up, and Away: Winds and Dynamical Structure as a Function of Altitude in the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-76b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad772f

Probing Na in giant exoplanets with ESPRESSO and 3D NLTE stellar spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15810

The Detectability of CH4/CO2/CO and N2O Biosignatures through Reflection Spectroscopy of Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14848

Circumplanetary Disks are Rare around Planets at Large Orbital Radii: A Parameter Survey of Flow Morphology around Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14896

The GAPS programme at TNG — LXIII. Photo-evaporating puzzle: Exploring the enigmatic nature of TOI-5398 b atmospheric signal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15917

Thermal tides on rocky planets through a novel fully analytical solution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16200

October 21, 2024 Updates

The Role of AI in Shaping Our Future: Super-Exponential Growth, Galactic Civilization, and Doom
https://al-kindipublisher.com/index.php/jcsts/article/view/7883

Spirals, rings, and vortices shaped by shadows in protoplanetary disks: from radiative hydrodynamical simulations to observable signatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13932

Planet Formation Mechanisms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14430

Photoevaporation of protoplanetary discs with PLUTO+PRIZMO
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50171-24/aa50171-24.html

Design of a prismatic CERMET megawatt gas-cooled reactor(PC-MGCR) for deep space exploration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306454924006091

Retraction: “Exoplanet Harmony: Confirming Kepler’s Third Law with Kepler and TESS Discoveries” (2024, RNAAS, 8, 215)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad83c3

October 18, 2024 updates

Detectability Simulations of a Near-infrared Surface Biosignature on Proxima Centauri b with Future Space Observatories
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad769d

SOTHE: SOlar-Terrestrial Habitability Explorer
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117724010512

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12905

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). XIV. Finding terrestrial protoplanets in the galactic neighborhood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13457

October 17, 2024 updates

Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Mixed+Signals%3A+Alien+Communication+Across+the+Iron+Curtain-p-9781509556915

Communicating Across the Cosmos: Speculative Designs for Interfacing with Intelligent Quantum Systems
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384865075_Communicating_Across_the_Cosmos_Speculative_Designs_for_Interfacing_with_Intelligent_Quantum_Systems

TOI-3568 b: A super-Neptune in the sub-Jovian desert
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50334-24/aa50334-24.html

Multi-aperture telescopes at the quantum limit of superresolution imaging : Detecting subRayleigh object near a star
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524005666

Long-term evolution of exoplanet systems
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-international-astronomical-union/article/longterm-evolution-of-exoplanet-systems/C57FF9A1557170796FA5DF92D692C870

Signature of Vertical Mixing in Hydrogen-dominated Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12737

Metal pollution in Sun-like stars from destruction of ultra-short-period planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11935

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME) XII: A Young Mini-Neptune on the Upper Edge of the Radius Valley in the Hyades Cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11990

Most High-density Exoplanets Are Unlikely to Be Remnant Giant-planet Cores
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12640

Dynamical Stability of the Laplace Resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12768

October 16, 2024 updates

Astronomical Intensity Interferometry
https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/11/10/958

Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the Fermi paradox seen through the prism of illusionism and attention schema theory
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524005976

Spin and Obliquity Evolution of Hot Jupiter Hosts from Resonance Locks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10943

Hic Sunt Dracones: Uncovering Dynamical Perturbers Within the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10969

The Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Nearby Rocky Exoplanet LTT 1445A b from JWST MIRI/LRS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10987

TESS Giants Transiting Giants. VII. A Hot Saturn Orbiting an Oscillating Red Giant Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11037

Hot Rocks Survey I : A shallow eclipse for LHS 1478 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11048

An HST Transmission Spectrum of the Closest M-Dwarf Transiting Rocky Planet LTT 1445Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11054

Out of the Darkness: High-resolution Detection of CO Absorption on the Nightside of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11060

Planetary Mass Determinations from a Simplified Photodynamical Model — Application To The Complete Kepler Dataset
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11401

Spectroscopically resolved partial phase curve of the rapid heating and cooling of the highly-eccentric Hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b with WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11643

The GAPS programme at TNG: TBD. Studies of atmospheric FeII winds in ultra-hot Jupiters KELT-9b and KELT-20b using HARPS-N spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11731