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 11, 2024 updates

Faster-than-Light Travel from Dark Energy Inflation
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-04-0110/

Frank Drake is Alive! (Rethinking the Drake Equation for the Search For Biological Life)
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-04-0114/

Inertial Confinement Fusion Propulsion for the Massive Ra World Ship Model – Part 2
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-04-0119/

Ferric Iron Evolution During Crystallization of the Earth and Mars
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE008262

The GAPS programme at TNG – LX. Atmospheric characterisation of KELT-9 b via single-line analysis: Detection of six H I Balmer lines, Na I, Ca I, Ca II, Fe I, Fe II, Mg I, Ti II, Sc II, and Cr II
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa49341-24/aa49341-24.html

Why heterogeneous cloud particles matter – Iron-bearing species and cloud particle morphology affect exoplanet transmission spectra
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50526-24/aa50526-24.html

Disruption of exo-asteroids around white dwarfs and the release of dust particles in debris rings in co-orbital motion
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa51714-24/aa51714-24.html

HD 28185 Revisited: An outer planet, instead of a brown dwarf, on a saturn-like orbit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2336/7817993

Correction to: Trio of super-Earth candidates orbiting K-dwarf HD 48948: a new habitable zone candidate
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/534/3/2410/7817797

TOI 762 A b and TIC 46432937 b: Two Giant Planets Transiting M-dwarf Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6f07

Impact of Exoplanet Science on Society: Professional Contributions, Citizen Science Engagement and Public Perception
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07285

Considerations for Photochemical Modeling of Possible Hycean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07313

TIC 393818343 c: Discovery and characterization of a Neptune-like planet in the Delphinus constellation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07425

Membrane Space Telescope: Active Surface Control with Radiative Adaptive Optics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07741

An extremely low-density exoplanet spins slow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07977

BOWIE-ALIGN: JWST reveals hints of planetesimal accretion and complex sulphur chemistry in the atmosphere of the misaligned hot Jupiter WASP-15b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08116

JWST-TST DREAMS: Non-Uniform Dayside Emission for WASP-17b from MIRI/LRS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08148

JWST-TST DREAMS: A Super-Solar Metallicity in WASP-17 b Dayside Atmosphere from NIRISS SOSS Eclipse Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08149

The mystery of water in the atmosphere of τ Boötis b continues: insights from revisiting archival CRIRES observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08178

October 10, 2024 updates

Morris–Thorne-type wormholes with global monopole charge and the energy conditions
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13413-1

Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031752070

JWST/NIRCam 4–5 μm Imaging of the Giant Planet AF Lep b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad736a

Hubble and New Horizons offer dual perspectives on Uranus to inform exoplanet research
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-hubble-horizons-dual-perspectives-uranus.html

RedDots: Limits on habitable and undetected planets orbiting nearby stars GJ 832, GJ 674, and Ross 128
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa47902-23/aa47902-23.html

Starbound: Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/starbound/43228906C11D08A19CBEC439CD2F49D6

Atmospheric escape in hot Jupiters under sub-Alfvénic interactions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2325/7816390

The HD 191939 Exoplanet System is Well Aligned and Flat
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad79ed

IGRINS Observations of WASP-127 b: H2O, CO, and Super-solar Atmospheric Metallicity in the Inflated Sub-Saturn
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad72f3

The Clear Sky Corridor: Insights Towards Aerosol Formation in Exoplanets Using An AI-based Survey of Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06804

An Alternating Minimization Algorithm with Trajectory for Direct Exoplanet Detection — The AMAT Algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06310

Estimating Exoplanet Mass using Machine Learning on Incomplete Datasets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06922

A long spin period for a sub-Neptune-mass exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05408

Surprising Spin-orbit Resonances of Rocky Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05373

The Polar Vortex Hypothesis: Evolving, Spectrally Distinct Polar Regions Explain Short- and Long-term Light Curve Evolution and Color-Inclination Trends in Brown Dwarfs and Giant Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05537

Gaia-4b and 5b: Radial Velocity Confirmation of Gaia Astrometric Orbital Solutions Reveal a Massive Planet and a Brown Dwarf Orbiting Low-mass Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05654

Exocomets, exoasteroids and exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06248

Differentiable Modeling of Planet and Substellar Atmosphere: High-Resolution Emission, Transmission, and Reflection Spectroscopy with ExoJAX2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.06900

Effect of different stickiness between icy and silicate particles on carbon depletion in protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07047

Chemical composition of planetary hosts: C, N, and α-element abundances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07100

October 09, 2024 updates

Is there a universal limit to technological development? Evidences from astrobiology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328724000624

Phosphorus-rich grains in Ryugu samples with major biochemical potential
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02366-w

The young exoplanetary system TOI-4562: Confirming the presence of a third body in the system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa51935-24/aa51935-24.html

Gas dynamics around a Jupiter-mass planet – I. Influence of protoplanetary disk properties
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50899-24/aa50899-24.html

October 08, 2024 updates

Laser Propulsion Science and Technology
https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4310/11/10/806

Assessment of Ensemble-Based Machine Learning Algorithms for Exoplanet Identification
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/13/19/3950

Interpretation of the Transit Light Curve in the Presence of Principal Main Minimum with Allowance for the Eccentricity of the Transit (Planet) Orbit
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772924700598

Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and here on Earth
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686424002449

Gas dynamics around a Jupiter-mass planet – I. Influence of protoplanetary disk properties
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50899-24/aa50899-24.html

JWST reveals the rapid and strong day-side variability of 55 Cancri e
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50748-24/aa50748-24.html

Partial Disruption of a Planet around a White Dwarf: The Effect of Perturbations from the Remnant Planet on the Accretion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad73d3

Lava Worlds Surface Measurements at High Temperatures
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad7d89

Gen TSO: A General JWST Simulator for Exoplanet Times-series Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04856

The Search for Disk Perturbing Planets Around the Asymmetrical Debris Disk System HD 111520 Using REBOUND
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03932

Breaking degeneracies in exoplanetary parameters through self-consistent atmosphere-interior modelling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04470

Constraining Planetary Albedo of JWST Targets in the TESS bandpass, using TESS, HST and Spitzer Eclipse Depth Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04804

October 7, 2024 Updates

SETI in 2022
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576524005745

Planet found in star’s ‘forbidden zone’
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S026240792401772X

On the origin of transition disk cavities: Pebble-accreting protoplanets vs Super-Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02856

Constraining the Presence of Companion Planets in Hot Jupiter Planetary System Using TTV Observation from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03101

sunset: A database of synthetic atmospheric-escape transmission spectra for nearly every transiting planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03228

A General, Differentiable Transit Model for Ellipsoidal Occulters: Derivation, Application, and Forecast of Planetary Oblateness and Obliquity Constraints with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03449

The Feasibility of Asynchronous Rotation via Thermal Tides for Diverse Atmospheric Compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03491

JWST/NIRISS reveals the water-rich “steam world” atmosphere of GJ 9827 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03527