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 24, 2025 Updates

A Conceptual Design of a Micro-Propulsion Device Based on Alpha Particles
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S096980432500140X

To Seed or Not to Seed: Estimating the Ethical Value of Directed Panspermia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457652500181X

Limits on the atmospheric metallicity and aerosols of the sub-Neptune GJ 3090 b from high-resolution CRIRES+ spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16608

A parameter scan of dark zone maintenance for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets using theoretical and experimental implementations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16720

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). III. Retrieval of Planetary Masses in Binaries Using the N-body Model with RV and Astrometry Synergy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17090

Dark Matter (S)pins the Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17206

Abundances of refractory ions in Beta Pictoris exocomets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17346

On the road to the radius valley: distinguishing between gas dwarfs and water worlds with young transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17364

March 21, 2025 updates

A Philosophical Approach to CETI: Developing a Conceptual Framework Based on Umwelt Theory
https://www.academia.edu/128111921/A_Philosophical_Approach_to_CETI_Developing_a_Conceptual_Framework_Based_on_Umwelt_Theory

Evolution as Art for Interstellar Spaces
https://www.mauroannunziato.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/7.-Interstellar-Art-for-SETI.pdf

Galactic Habitability
https://oxfordre.com/planetaryscience/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.001.0001/acrefore-9780190647926-e-305

Clouds and Hazes in GJ 1214 b’s Metal-rich Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb7e8

A Moderate Albedo from Reflecting Aerosols on the Dayside of WASP-80 b Revealed by JWST/NIRISS Eclipse Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15665

The Ambiguous Age and Tidal History for the Ultra-Hot Jupiter TOI-1937Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15802

Characterising the Atmosphere of 55 Cancri e: 1D Forward Model Grid for Current and Future JWST Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15844

Astrometric detection of exoplanets in face-on orbits using vortex filters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16140

March 20, 2025 updates

Advances in Deep Space Probe Navigation
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/6/3307

The Exoplanet Citizen Science Pipeline: Human Factors and Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14575

Detectability of oxygen fugacity regimes in the magma ocean world 55 Cancri e at high spectral resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15196

Refractory and Volatile Species in the UV-to-IR Transmission Spectrum of Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b with HST and JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15472

Deep Mantle-Atmosphere Coupling and Carbonaceous Bombardment: Options for Biomolecule Formation on an Oxidized Early Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15479

Seven decades of exploring planetary interiors with rotating convection experiments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05220

March 19, 2025 updates

Physically motivated analytic model of energy efficiency for extreme-ultraviolet-driven atmospheric escape of close-in exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa52749-24/aa52749-24.html

The Proxima Centauri Campaign—First Constraints on Millimeter Flare Rates from ALMA
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada5f2

On the Number of Confirmed Pulsar Planets: The Rule of Six
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb1a8

Early Time Small-scale Structures in Hot Exoplanet Atmosphere Simulations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb0ce

A New Statistical Model of Star Speckles for Learning to Detect and Characterize Exoplanets in Direct Imaging Observations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389976858_A_New_Statistical_Model_of_Star_Speckles_for_Learning_to_Detect_and_Characterize_Exoplanets_in_Direct_Imaging_Observations

Hot Jupiter Exoplanets: The Enigmatic Giants of Astrophysics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389600606_Hot_Jupiter_Exoplanets_The_Enigmatic_Giants_of_Astrophysics

Atmospheric Circulation of Close-In Extrasolar Giant Planets: The Diabatic Equivalent-Barotropic Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13713

March 18, 2025 updates

JWST-TST High Contrast: Living on the Wedge, or, NIRCam Bar Coronagraphy Reveals CO2 in the HR 8799 and 51 Eri Exoplanets’ Atmospheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adb1c6

Impacts of UV Radiation from an AGN on Planetary Atmospheres and Consequences for Galactic Habitability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adac5d

The GAPS Programme at TNG – LXVII. Detection of water and preliminary characterisation of the atmospheres of the two hot Jupiters: KELT-8 b and KELT-23 Ab
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa52733-24/aa52733-24.html

Three-dimensional dynamical evolution of cloud particle microphysics in sub-stellar atmospheres – I. Description and exploring Y-dwarf atmospheric variability
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa52922-24/aa52922-24.html

LavAtmos 2.0 – Incorporating volatile species in vaporisation models
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa50992-24/aa50992-24.html

Hot Rocks Survey I: A possible shallow eclipse for LHS 1478 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa52611-24/aa52611-24.html

Cold dayside winds shape large leading streams in evaporating exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/03/aa52740-24/aa52740-24.html

C3PO IV: co-natal stars depleted in refractories are magnetically more active – possible imprints of planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf436/8082124

A Machine Learning–ready Data Set for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrieval
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/adb03a

The photovoltaic Dyson sphere
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927024825001904

Investigating the 1L2S Degeneracy for Wide-Orbit Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11768

An Analysis of Spitzer Phase Curves for WASP-121b and WASP-77Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12521

Advancing European High-Contrast Imaging R&D Towards the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12707

An Early Look at the Performance of IGRINS-2 at Gemini-North with Application to the ultrahot Jupiter, WASP-33 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12736

The Impact of Stellar Flares on the Atmospheric Escape of Exoplanets orbiting M stars I: Insights from the AU Mic System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13353