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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January 27, 2025 updates

Minds Amid the Cosmos: The Ethics of Psychiatric Treatment During Space Travel
https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/items/2eb3a24a-6b7d-470b-b4fb-33869e7048ef

Human Enhancement and our Future Off-Earth
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/1211372

The ESO SupJup Survey – IV. Unveiling the carbon isotope ratio of GQ Lup B and its host star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51936-24/aa51936-24.html

True Mass and Atmospheric Composition of the Nontransiting Hot Jupiter HD 143105 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada1d9

Long-lived magnetic field in earth-like terrestrial planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031920125000093

An arrangement to send human civilization to exoplanet from the earth
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388388958_An_arrangement_to_send_human_civilization_to_exoplanet_from_the_earth

Probing the Limits of Habitability: A Catalog of Rocky Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14054

Highly reflective white clouds on the western dayside of an exo-Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14016

The NCORES Program: Precise planetary masses, null results, and insight into the planet mass distribution near the radius gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14355

JWST COMPASS: NIRSpec/G395H Transmission Observations of the Super-Earth TOI-776b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14596

January 24, 2025 updates

A Concept of Using a Super-Large Mirror in the Solar System Orbit to Reflect Sunlight to Interstellar Space to Transmit Signals
https://preprints.opticaopen.org/articles/preprint/A_Concept_of_Using_a_Super-Large_Mirror_in_the_Solar_System_Orbit_to_Reflect_Sunlight_to_Interstellar_Space_to_Transmit_Signals/28203368

Calculating potential cumulative carbon fixed and evolutionary stage for Earthlike planets in our solar neighborhood
https://zenodo.org/records/13953278

Exoplanet discovery with variational quantum circuits
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42484-024-00229-1

Oceans under the light of moribund stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02476-z

Similar-mass versus diverse-mass planetary systems in wind-driven accretion discs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52453-24/aa52453-24.html

Connection between planetary He I λ10 830 Å absorption and extreme-ultraviolet emission of planet-host stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51680-24/aa51680-24.html

Jitter Across 15 yr: Leveraging Precise Photometry from Kepler and TESS to Extract Exoplanets from Radial Velocity Time Series
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9eb0

COOL Research DAO Whitepaper — Towards community-owned astrophysics for everyone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13160

Properties of Free Floating Planets Ejected through Planet-Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13166

Formation of Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13214

Transit-timing variations in the AU Mic system observed with CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13575

Exoplanet Occurrence Rate with Age for FGK Stars in Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13809

January 23, 2025 updates

Potential Additional Problems for Mass Effect Drives and Their Solutions Thanks to the Square-Cube Law
https://zenodo.org/records/14692200

TOI-2458 b: A mini-Neptune consistent with in situ hot Jupiter formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51057-24/aa51057-24.html

Potential Interior Structures and Habitability of Super-Earth Exoplanets LHS 1140 b, K2-18 b, TOI-1452 b, and TOI-1468 c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9ba9

Tides on Lava Worlds: Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth–Moon System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b93

Potential Technosignature from Anomalously Low Deuterium/Hydrogen in Planetary Water Depleted by Nuclear Fusion Technology
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad99a9

FindPOTATOs: Minor Planet Observation Linking Software
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad94eb

Cosmic ray-driven bioenergetics for Life in Molecular Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12816

Resonance Capture and Stability Analysis for Planet Pairs under Type I Disk Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12650

ExoSim 2: the new Exoplanet Observation Simulator applied to the Ariel space mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12809

January 22, 2025 updates

Ziggy
https://zenodo.org/records/14715146

The growth of super-large pre-planetary pebbles to an impact erosion limit
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02470-x

PolyCLEAN: Atomic optimization for super-resolution imaging and uncertainty estimation in radio interferometry
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa50970-24/aa50970-24.html

Machine-learning approach for mapping stable orbits around planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51831-24/aa51831-24.html

Eccentric planet-disc interactions: orbital migration and eccentricity evolution
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf117/7965967

Hot Casimir wormholes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/01/081

Eight New Candidate Multiplanet Systems among TESS Objects of Interest
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9a6c

Planetary Mass Determinations from a Simplified Photodynamical Model—Application to the Complete Kepler Dataset
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad91a7

Searching for substellar companion candidates with Gaia. III. Search for companions to members of young associations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10488

Near-circular orbits for planets around M/K-type stars with Earth-like sizes and instellations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10571

Accurate and thermodynamically consistent hydrogen equation of state for planetary modeling with flow matching
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10594

A One-Dimensional Energy Balance Model Parameterization for the Formation of CO2 Ice on the Surfaces of Eccentric Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11667

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). V. Complete observations, data reduction and analysis, detection performances, and final results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12002

DECH: Software Package for Astronomical Spectral Data Processing and Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12207

Orbital Stability of Hierarchical 3 and 4-Body Systems with Inclination: Results for Kepler-1625, 1708, and HD 23079
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12258

January 21, 2025 updates

Potential Additional Problems for Mass Effect Drives and Their Solutions Thanks to the Square-Cube Law
https://zenodo.org/records/14692200

CRIRES+ transmission spectroscopy of WASP-127 b – Detection of the resolved signatures of a supersonic equatorial jet and cool poles in a hot planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa50438-24/aa50438-24.html

Ohmic heating in the upper atmosphere of hot exoplanets – The influence of a time-varying magnetic field
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52641-24/aa52641-24.html

Prospects for biological evolution on Hycean worlds
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf094/7964882

Are Stars Really Ingesting Their Planets? Examining an Alternative Explanation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada1d5