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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July 18, 2024 updates

A hot-Jupiter progenitor on a super-eccentric retrograde orbit
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07688-3

Atomic‐Scale Study of Intercrystalline (Mg,Fe)O in Planetary Mantles: Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Grain Boundaries Under Pressure
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JB028375

Clumped Isotope Signatures of Abiotic Methane: The Role of the Combinatorial Isotope Effect
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JB028194

New insights into the internal structure of GJ 1214 b informed by JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12079

Westward hotspot offset explained by subcritical dynamo action in an ultra-hot Jupiter atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12434

Seasonal Changes in the Atmosphere of HD 80606b Observed with JWST’s NIRSpec/G395H
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12456

July 17, 2024 updates

The GAPS programme at TNG – LVII. TOI-5076b: A warm sub-Neptune planet orbiting a thin-to-thick-disk transition star in a wide binary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49082-23/aa49082-23.html

X-ray variability of the triplet star system LTT1445 and evaporation history of the planets around its A component
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49400-24/aa49400-24.html

Are These Planets or Brown Dwarfs? Broadly Solar Compositions from High-resolution Atmospheric Retrievals of ∼10–30 MJup Companions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad4796

Astrometry as a Tool for Discovering and Weighing Faint Companions to Nearby Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad59c5

Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11 c as a Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11109

High-Resolution Dayside Spectroscopy of WASP-189b: Detection of Iron during the GHOST/Gemini South System Verification Run
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11281

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Revisiting the GJ 581 multi-planetary system with new Doppler measurements from CARMENES, HARPS, and HIRES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11520

Searching for the Grand Tack in Exoplanetary Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11574

Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N VIII. A wide-orbit planetary companion in the hot-Jupiter system HD 118203
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11706

Fate of a remnant solid disk around an eccentric giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11829

Is the Emergence of Life an Expected Phase Transition in the Evolving Universe?
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/6rvjs

July 16, 2024 updates

Interstellar Colonization Compendium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8tp2emLJqw

Cosmic Channel Capacity: Extending the Shannon Limit to Universal Scales
https://osf.io/preprints/osf/vjy3p

25 years of exoplanet hunting hasn’t revealed Earth 2.0 — but is that what we’re looking for?
https://www.space.com/space-25-anniversary-exoplanet-history

Inhomogeneous terminators on the exoplanet WASP-39 b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07768-4

A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02298-5

Equilibrium tides and magnetic activity in stars with close-by massive planets – The intriguing case of WASP-18
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa48279-23/aa48279-23.html

Mind the trap. Non-negligible effect of volatile trapping in ice on C/O ratios in protoplanetary disks and exoplanetary atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa50405-24/aa50405-24.html

The GAPS programme at TNG – LVII. TOI-5076b: A warm sub-Neptune planet orbiting a thin-to-thick-disk transition star in a wide binary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49082-23/aa49082-23.html

JWST-TST High Contrast: Achieving Direct Spectroscopy of Faint Substellar Companions Next to Bright Stars with the NIRSpec Integral Field Unit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad5281

Transmission Spectroscopy Along the Transit of Venus: A Proxy for Exoplanets Atmospheric Characterization
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202407.0928/v1

Permanent Capture into the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09560

PEPSI Investigation, Retrieval, and Atlas of Numerous Giant Atmospheres (PIRANGA). I. The Ubiquity of Fe I Emission and Inversions in Ultra Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09643

Astro-COLIBRI: Empowering Citizen Scientists in Time Domain Astronomy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10821

Exploring the Dyson Ring: Parameters, Stability and Helical Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.10624

July 15, 2024 Updates

Searching for Protoplanets around MWC 758 and MWC 480 in Br-γ using Kernel Phase and SCExAO/CHARIS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08832

Hot Spot Offset Variability from Magnetohydrodynamical Thermoresistive Instability in Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08960

Probing Cold-to-Temperate Exoplanetary Atmospheres: The Role of Water Condensation on Surface Identification with JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09009

The effect of spectroscopic binning on atmospheric retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09296

Convective mixing in giant planets and the connection to atmospheric measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09341

A grid of self-consistent MSG (MARCS-StaticWeather-GGchem) cool stellar, sub-stellar, and exoplanetary model atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09397

July 12, 2024 updates

Challenging the Entanglement No Communication Theorem: Implications and Paradoxes in Quantum Mechanics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382063082_Challenging_the_Entanglement_No_Communication_Theorem_Implications_and_Paradoxes_in_Quantum_Mechanics

Manipulating the McGinty Equation to Create Stable Micro-Wormholes
https://unisciencepub.com/abstract/manipulating-the-mcginty-equation-to-create-stable-micro-wormholes/

Will we use Micro Black Holes to Power Spacetime Warping for Creating Micro Wormholes?
https://unisciencepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Will-we-use-Micro-Black-Holes-to-Power-Spacetime-Warping-for-Creating-Micro-Wormholes.pdf

Equilibrium tides and magnetic activity in stars with close-by massive planets – The intriguing case of WASP-18
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa48279-23/aa48279-23.html

Updated Spectral Characteristics for the Ultracool Dwarf TRAPPIST-1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad5c6c

Enhancing 3D Planetary Atmosphere Simulations with a Surrogate Radiative Transfer Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08556

Astrophotonic Technologies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03981