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.

You can now search our database of interstellar updates and find items of interest to you.

January 06, 2025 Updates

[category updates]

Journey to The Planets: The Technology to Build a Spacefaring Civilization
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=lang_en&id=l-s7EQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR5&dq=interstellar+exploration&ots=AzvdK5a2mZ&sig=bXHyGvbn7oc1IPy0QSYntoLOITk#v=onepage&q=interstellar%20exploration&f=false

The Five Great Human Challenges to Make Space and Interstellar Travels
https://www.academia.edu/53287936/

Critical Analysis of the Drake Equation: Limitations and Flaws in Estimating Extraterrestrial Civilizations
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387659286_Critical_Analysis_of_the_Drake_Equation_Limitations_and_Flaws_in_Estimating_Extraterrestrial_Civilizations_Paper_2103

The Role of Accounting and Financial Management in Humanity’s Transition to the Interstellar Era
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202501.0099/v1

TOI-421 b: A Hot Sub-Neptune with a Haze-Free, Low Mean Molecular Weight Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01498

Exoplanet Detection via Differentiable Rendering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01912

2044: A DEEP Space Odyssey
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2025-1402

Development of Gravity Theories in the View of TRAPPIST-1e
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad8f31

TOI-4504: Exceptionally Large Transit Timing Variations Induced by Two Resonant Warm Gas Giants in a Three-planet System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad9a53

January 03, 2025 updates

We Can Spread Our Genetic Material
https://www.aob.rs/en/publishing-en/doi/conferences-papers-and-proceedings/771-2024-01-10-69646-aob104p113

Giant exoplanet composition – The impact of the hydrogen–helium equation of state and interior structure
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52783-24/aa52783-24.html

The COBREX archival survey: Improved constraints on the occurrence rate of wide-orbit substellar companions – I. A uniform re-analysis of 400 stars from the GPIES survey
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52310-24/aa52310-24.html

Host star and exoplanet composition: Polluted white dwarf reveals depletion of moderately refractory elements in planetary material
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51621-24/aa51621-24.html

Retrieving wind properties from the ultra-hot dayside of WASP-189 b with CRIRES+
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51391-24/aa51391-24.html

A multi-technique detection of an eccentric giant planet around the accelerating star HD 57625
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52832-24/aa52832-24.html

Gas dynamics around a Jupiter-mass planet – II. Chemical evolution of circumplanetary material
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51140-24/aa51140-24.html

Development of Gravity Theories in the View of TRAPPIST-1e
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/ad9254

Absorption cross section of gas phase isoprene in the infrared-visible range
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S138614252401833X

First unambiguous detection of ammonia in the atmosphere of a planetary mass companion with JWST/MIRI coronagraphs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00104

Detection of H2O and CO2 in the Atmosphere of the Hot Super-Neptune WASP-166b with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00609

Probing exoplanetary magnetism via atomic alignment effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01122

December 31, 2024 updates

Probing Exoplanets Based on Transit, Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging
https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=J7PYUGazcjY=&t=1

Stability of the thin shell from traversable Schwarzschild-like wormholes
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13676-8

FCN4Flare: Fully convolution neural networks for flare detection
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2789/7934963

Relativistic elastic membranes: rotating disks and Dyson spheres
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad9f16

The effect of encounters with interstellar objects
https://sao.editorum.ru/en/nauka/conference_article/11819/view

Optimization of Interstellar Travel through Design Approaches with Gimballing Ion Thrusters
https://acceleron.org.in/index.php/aaj/article/view/204

Interpretation of the Balmer-alpha line absorption in the exoplanet WASP-69 b
https://sao.editorum.ru/en/nauka/conference_article/11977/view

Investigation of the infrared profiles of exoplanet HD 209458 b secondary eclipses
https://sao.editorum.ru/en/nauka/conference_article/11920/view

The RISTRETTO simulator: Exoplanet reflected spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20879

Novel SiC UV Instrumentation Development with Potential Applications for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.21034