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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February 07, 2025 updates

The Local Galactic Transient Survey Applied to an Optical Search for Directed Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18903

Observationally derived magnetic field strength and 3D components in the HD 142527 disk
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02454-x

TOI-5108 b and TOI 5786 b: Two transiting sub-Saturns detected and characterized with TESS, MaHPS, and SOPHIE
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51676-24/aa51676-24.html

The Influence of General Relativity on the Spins of Celestial Bodies in Inclined Orbits
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada5fc

The Effects of Kinematic MHD on the Atmospheric Circulation of Eccentric Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04169

Energy needed to propel a tiny spacecraft to Proxima Centauri,and, an unstated assumption in Einstein’s 1905 paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04331

Early Accretion of Large Amounts of Solids for Directly-Imaged Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00088

February 06, 2025 updates

Characterization of seven transiting systems, including four warm Jupiters from SOPHIE and TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa51519-24/aa51519-24.html

Modeling the astrosphere of LHS 1140 – On the differences of 3D magnetohydrodynamic single- and multi-fluid simulations and the consequences for exoplanetary habitability
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa50324-24/aa50324-24.html

Thermally Driven Atmospheric Escape: Transition from Diffusion-limited to Drag-off Escape
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ada369

TRAPPIST-1 d: Exo-Venus, Exo-Earth, or Exo-Dead?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adace0

A Population Analysis of 20 Exoplanets Observed from Optical to Near-infrared Wavelengths with the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Widespread Stellar Contamination
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad8c3c

SPOCK 2.0: Updates to the FeatureClassifier in the Stability of Planetary Orbital Configurations Klassifier
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adb150

A Case Study of Interstellar Material Delivery: α Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03224

Configuration of Single Giant Planet Systems Generating `Oumuamua-Like Interstellar Asteroids
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03336

February 05, 2025 updates

Revised Masses for Low-density Planets Orbiting the Disordered M-dwarf System TOI-1266
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada121

The Dynamical History of the Kepler-221 Planet System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01736

Resolving the Super-Earth/Gas Giant Connection in Stellar Mass and Metallicity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01748

Technical description and performance of the phase II version of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01863

Amplifying Resonant Repulsion with Inflated Young Planets, Overlooked Inner Planets, and Non-zero Initial Δ
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01903

MAISTEP — a new grid-based machine learning tool for inferring stellar parameters I. Ages of giant-planet host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02176

February 04, 2025 updates

Earth Detecting Earth: At What Distance Could Earth’s Constellation of Technosignatures Be Detected with Present-day Technology?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada3c7

Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-life-technological-species-highly.html

Methane precipitation in ice giant atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa52521-24/aa52521-24.html

Grid-based exoplanet atmospheric mass-loss predictions via neural networks
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa52379-24/aa52379-24.html

Astronomaly Protege: Discovery through Human-machine Collaboration
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada14c

An HST Transmission Spectrum of the Closest M Dwarf Transiting Rocky Planet LTT 1445Ab
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9dd1

Apparent Diameters of F- to M-type Main-sequence Stars as Viewed from Habitable Zone Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adb036

The Influence of Stellar Chromospheres and Coronae on Exoplanet Transmission Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00553

Deep Learning in Exoplanet Detection: Enhancing Astronomical Discoveries
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388670602_Deep_Learning_in_Exoplanet_Detection_Enhancing_Astronomical_Discoveries

TRAPPIST-1 d: Exo-Venus, Exo-Earth or Exo-Dead?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00132

Short-Period Small Planets with High Mutual Inclinations are more Common around Metal-Rich Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00442

K-dwarf Radius Inflation and a 10-Gyr Spin-down Clock Unveiled through Asteroseismology of HD~219134 from the Keck Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00971

KOBE 1: The first planetary system from the KOBE survey. Two planets likely residing in the sub-Neptune mass regime around a late K-dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01249

Grid-based exoplanet atmospheric mass loss predictions through neural network
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01510

Effects of planetary mass uncertainties on the interpretation of the reflectance spectra of Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01513

From pre-transit to post-eclipse: investigating the impact of 3D temperature, chemistry, and dynamics on high-resolution emission spectra of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01606

February 03, 2025 updates

KOBE-1: The first planetary system from the KOBE survey – Two planets likely residing in the sub-Neptune mass regime around a late K-dwarf
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa52631-24/aa52631-24.html

Stellar hot spots due to star–planet magnetic interactions – Power transmission to the chromosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/02/aa52719-24/aa52719-24.html

The Influence of General Relativity on the Spins of Celestial Bodies in Inclined Orbits
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada5fc

The Dynamical History of HIP-41378 f—Oblique Exorings Masquerading as a Puffy Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada4b2

Revised Masses for Low-density Planets Orbiting the Disordered M-dwarf System TOI-1266
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ada121

An HST Transmission Spectrum of the Closest M Dwarf Transiting Rocky Planet LTT 1445Ab
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9dd1

Apparent Diameters of F- to M-type Main-sequence Stars as Viewed from Habitable Zone Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/adb036

Evidence for a volcanic atmosphere on the sub-Earth L98-59b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18680

Updated Mass, Eccentricity, and Tidal Heating Constraints for the Earth-sized Planet LP 791-18 d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18700

The Local Galactic Transient Survey Applied to an Optical Search for Directed Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18903

Intermediate-mass stars and the origin of the gas-giant planet-metallicity correlation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19074