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 17, 2025 updates

Exploring the Entanglement of Biosignatures and Technosignatures: A Quantum Perspective
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387960793_Exploring_the_Entanglement_of_Biosignatures_and_Technosignatures_A_Quantum_Perspective

Emulationism: Cybernetics to Answer Fermi Paradox
https://philarchive.org/rec/ISHECT

Production of abiotic or biogenic hydrocarbons on rock particles in the presence of H2O and carbon compounds
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-025-86121-9

Array of metabolic pathways in a kleptoplastidic foraminiferan protist supports chemoautotrophy in dark, euxinic seafloor sediments
https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wrae248/7923457

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

Where in the Milky Way Do Exoplanets Preferentially Form?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20240076

Background exoplanet candidates in the original Kepler field
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09152

On the robustness of exoplanet atmospheric detections: insights from extensive simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09494

A Pair of Dynamically Interacting Sub-Neptunes Around TOI-6054
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09095

Planetary Rhythms: Synchronous Circulation on Variably Irradiated Asynchronous Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09644

The Physics of Life: Exploring Information as a Distinctive Feature of Living Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08683

January 16, 2025 updates

Tidal Deformation and Dissipation Processes in Icy Worlds
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-025-01136-y

Nongravitational Forces in Planetary Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad9824

Habitable Worlds Formed at Cosmic Dawn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08375

The Impact of Extended CO2 Cross Sections on Temperate Anoxic Planet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08434

Deep high-resolution L band spectroscopy in the β Pictoris planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08445

Kinetic and photochemical disequilibrium in the potentially carbon-rich atmosphere of the warm-Jupiter WASP-69b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08463

Empirical Constraints on Tidal Dissipation in Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08992

January 15, 2025 updates

A One-Dimensional Energy Balance Model Parameterization for the Formation of CO2 Ice on the Surfaces of Eccentric Extrasolar Planets
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0103

The punctuated evolution of the Venusian atmosphere from a transition in mantle convective style and volcanic outgassing
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn9861

Discovery of a cold giant planet and mass measurement of a hot super-Earth in the multi-planetary system WASP-132
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa48177-23/aa48177-23.html

Surveys of the scientific community on the existence of extraterrestrial life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02451-0

Predictions of Dust Continuum Emission from a Potential Circumplanetary Disk: A Case Study of the Planet Candidate AB Aurigae b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad9b21

Promise and Peril: Stellar Contamination and Strict Limits on the Atmosphere Composition of TRAPPIST-1 c from JWST NIRISS Transmission Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ada381

Algorithms for encoding interstellar messages
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652500013X

The PLATO field selection process. II. Characterization of LOPS2, the first long-pointing field
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07687

High-Contrast Imaging: Hide and Seek with Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07976

Architecture Classification for Extrasolar Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08191

A Disintegrating Rocky World Shrouded in Dust and Gas: Mid-IR Observations of K2-22b using JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08301

January 14, 2025 updates

Financing the Race to Space: How to Value, Invest, and Explore the Universe
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-73102-0

Deep radio interferometric search for decametre radio emission from the exoplanet Tau Boötis b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa52868-24/aa52868-24.html

GI 725A b: A potential super-Earth detected with SOPHIE and SPIRou in an M dwarf binary system at 3.5 pc
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/01/aa51646-24/aa51646-24.html

New TESS Secondary Eclipses Confirm Orbital Decay of Kepler-1658b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ada7fb

Long-lived Habitable Zones around White Dwarfs undergoing Neon-22 Distillation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06613

Deep radio interferometric search for decametre radio emission from the exoplanet Tau Boötis b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06301

The TESS-Keck Survey XXIV: Outer Giants may be More Prevalent in the Presence of Inner Small Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06342

From Stability to Instability: Characterizing the Eccentricities of Multi-planet Systems in the California Kepler Survey as a Means of Studying Stability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06358

The heating efficiency of hot Jupiters from a data-driven perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06395

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) as an Extraterrestrial Atmospheric Technosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06462

Study of Migration of Giant Planets and Formation of Populations of Distant Trans-Neptunian Objects in the Nice Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07142

X-ray activity of nearby G-, K-, and M-type stars and implications for planet habitability around M stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07313

Is planetary inward migration responsible for GJ 504’s fast rotation and bright X-ray luminosity? New constraints from eROSITA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07402

Dusty disk as a safe haven for terrestrial planets: Effect of back-reaction of solid material on gas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07403

Three-dimensional transport of solids in a protoplanetary disk containing a growing giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07520

January 13, 2025 Updates

Gravitational Communication: Fundamentals, State-of-the-Art and Future Vision
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03251

Review of Deep Space Optical Communications
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sat.1543

Impact of photoevaporative winds in chemical models of externally irradiated protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05172

Antimatter in astronomy and cosmology: the early history
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2025.2449861#d1e203

Planet formation and long-term stability in a very eccentric stellar binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05506

The 2D pressure structure of the HD 163296 protoplanetary disk as probed by multi-molecular kinematics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05517

The MSG model for cloudy substellar atmospheres: A grid of self-consistent substellar atmosphere models with microphysical cloud formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05521

Stellar X-ray variability and planetary evolution in the DS Tucanae system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05571

Stellar obliquities of eight close-in gas giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05615

Exoplanet Ephemerides Change Observations (ExoEcho). I. Transit Timing Analysis of Thirty-Seven Exoplanets using HST/WFC3 Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05704

Extreme exomoons in WASP-49 Ab: dynamics and detectability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05866

Smuggling unnoticed: Towards a 2D view of water and dust delivery to the inner regions of protoplanetary discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05881

Dust processing in the terrestrial planet-forming region of the PDS 70 disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05913

Understanding what helium absorption tells us about atmospheric escape from exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06149

Modeling the Impact of Moderate External UV Irradiation on Disk Chemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06156

Impact of photoevaporative winds in chemical models of externally irradiated protoplanetary disks
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf047/7951527