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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December 09, 2024 Updates

From Stars to Life
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/from-stars-to-life/frontmatter/3AE2FF745038AF76E653FAE8FF1FF373

Market Study on Nuclear Electric Propulsion for Space Applications
https://hal.science/hal-04811171/document

Precision Medicine for Long and Safe Permanence of Humans in Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780443222597/precision-medicine-for-long-and-safe-permanence-of-humans-in-space

True mass and atmospheric composition of the non-transiting hot Jupiter HD 143105 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04552

Machine learning approach for mapping the stable orbits around planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04568

A substellar flyby that shaped the orbits of the giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04583

Water Enrichment from Pebble Drift in Disks with Gap-forming Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04681

Eta-Earth Revisited II: Deriving a Maximum Number of Earth-like Habitats in the Galactic Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05002

Eta-Earth Revisited I: A Formula for Estimating the Maximum Number of Earth-like Habitats
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05005

The effect of radiation pressure on the dispersal of photoevaporating discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05054

Novel Physics of Escaping Secondary Atmospheres May Shape the Cosmic Shoreline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05188

Using the helium triplet as a tracer of the physics of giant planet outflows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05258

New analysis of SNeIa Pantheon Catalog: Variable speed of light as an alternative to dark energy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05262

CRIRES+ and ESPRESSO Reveal an Atmosphere Enriched in Volatiles Relative to Refractories on the Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8b28

Future of Antimatter Production, Storage, Control, and Annihilation Applications in Propulsion Technologies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666202724004518

Proton Fluxes of Solar-Type Stars with Planetary Systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772924700823

December 06, 2024 updates

Breaking degeneracies in exoplanetary parameters through self-consistent atmosphere–interior modelling
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa48945-23/aa48945-23.html

Diversities and similarities exhibited by multi-planetary systems and their architectures – I. Orbital spacings
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51353-24/aa51353-24.html

The CHEOPS view of the climate of WASP-3 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51049-24/aa51049-24.html

An alternating minimization algorithm with trajectory for direct exoplanet detection – The AMAT algorithm
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51242-24/aa51242-24.html

Disequilibrium Chemistry, Diabatic Thermal Structure, and Clouds in the Atmosphere of COCONUTS-2b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8b2d

Planet Mass Function around M Stars at 1–10 au: A Plethora of Sub-Earth Mass Objects
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8c44

Slow Rotation for the Super-puff Planet Kepler-51d
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad91ae

High-temperature measurements of acetylene VUV absorption cross sections and application to warm exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202451638

Image-Constrained Modeling with Hubble and Keck Images Reveals that OGLE-2012-BLG-0563Lb is a Jupiter-Mass planet Orbiting a K Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03651

JWST-TST DREAMS: A Precise Water Abundance for Hot Jupiter WASP-17b from the NIRISS SOSS Transmission Spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03675

A Global Perspective with Updated Constraints on the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-19b: Atmospheric Properties and Stellar Activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03739

The GAPS programme at TNG XLVI. A homogeneous search for Na i and its possible variability in ten gas giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04330

DARWEN: Data-driven Algorithm for Reduction of Wide Exoplanetary Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04359

From Misaligned Sub-Saturns to Aligned Brown Dwarfs: The Highest Mp/M∗ Systems Exhibit Low Obliquities, Even around Hot Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04438

December 05, 2024 updates

Planets of the Known Galaxy: Fact and Fiction About the Nearest Stars and Their Worlds
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68218-6

Conducting High Frequency Radio SETI using ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19827

Routledge Handbook of Space Policy
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003342380/routledge-handbook-space-policy-thomas-hoerber-mariel-borowitz-antonella-forganni-bruno-reynaud-de-sousa

Crime, Criminal Justice and Ethics in Outer Space: International Perspectives
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003437178/crime-criminal-justice-ethics-outer-space-yarin-eski-jack-lampkin

Radio signatures of star–planet interactions, exoplanets and space weather
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02405-6

KMT-2024-BLG-1044L: A sub-Uranus microlensing planet around a host at the star–brown dwarf mass boundary
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51620-24/aa51620-24.html

The Search for the In-betweeners: How Packed Are TESS Planetary Systems?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8e3a

Database Design for SpExoDisks: A Database and Web Portal for Spectra of Exoplanet-forming Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad917d

Precision Medicine for Long and Safe Permanence of Humans in Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780443222597/precision-medicine-for-long-and-safe-permanence-of-humans-in-space

Discovery and Characterization of an Eccentric, Warm Saturn Transiting the Solar Analog TOI-4994
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02769

History and Habitability of the LP 890-9 Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02743

Exomoons of Circumbinary Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02847

A dark, bare rock for TOI-1685 b from a JWST NIRSpec G395H phase curve
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03411

Transiting Jupiters around M-dwarfs have similar masses to FGK warm-Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03416

December 04, 2024 updates

Reassessing Ocean Retention Rates: The Role of Ocean Formation Time Assumptions in Rocky Exoplanet Studies
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad9914

Three Warm Jupiters orbiting TOI-6628, TOI-3837, TOI-5027 and one sub-Saturn orbiting TOI-2328
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02069

The Terminator Region Atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-77Ab with ESPRESSO/VLT observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02095

Forming Earth-like and Low-Mass Rocky Exoplanets Through Pebble and Planetesimal Accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02571

In Search of Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence through the Dyson Sphere-like structures around the Primordial Black Holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02671

Increased Surface Temperatures of Habitable White Dwarf Worlds Relative to Main-Sequence Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02694

December 03, 2024 updates

Alternative Solvents for Life: Framework for Evaluation, Current Status, and Future Research
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0004

A dry Venusian interior constrained by atmospheric chemistry
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02414-5

Continuous Design and Reprogramming of Totimorphic Structures for Space Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15266

Machine learning methods for automated interstellar object classification with LSS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/11/aa51118-24/aa51118-24.html

Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing: IV. Probing the regime of dynamical tides for GK host stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa52101-24/aa52101-24.html

Impact of solar-wind turbulence on a planetary bow shock: A global 3D simulation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51520-24/aa51520-24.html

An impact-free mechanism to deliver water to terrestrial planets and exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51263-24/aa51263-24.html

The GAPS programme at TNG: LXII. Studies of atmospheric FeII winds in ultra-hot Jupiters KELT-9b and KELT-20b using the HARPS-N spectrograph
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51277-24/aa51277-24.html

The GAPS programme at TNG: LXIII. Photo-evaporating puzzle: Exploring the enigmatic nature of TOI-5398 b’s atmospheric signal
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/12/aa51237-24/aa51237-24.html

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. I. Confirmation of a 31 Day Planet Orbiting HD 86728
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad89bf

The Roasting Marshmallows Program with IGRINS on Gemini South. II. WASP-121 b has Superstellar C/O and Refractory-to-volatile Ratios
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8574

A Global Perspective with Updated Constraints on the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-19b: Atmospheric Properties and Stellar Activity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad863f

Chemical Complexity and Prevalence of Life in the Universe: A New Method for the Estimation of Key Terms of Drake Equation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01001

Detectability of biosignatures in warm, water-rich atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01266

Time Resolved Absorption of Six Chemical Species With MAROON-X Points to Strong Drag in the Ultra Hot Jupiter TOI-1518 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01472

Concealing Circumbinary Planets with Tidal Shrinkage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01616