Interstellar Updates

 

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May 12, 2025 Updates

Alienating Encounters – Cultural, Religious, Political and Psychological Implications of First Contact in Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and Frederik Pohl’s Gateway
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1955794/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Navigating Complexity in Big History—Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-85410-1

Navigating Complexity in Big History—Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions: An Introduction
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-85410-1_1

The Human Journey: A Potential Timetable Extrapolated with Big History Trends
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-85410-1_14

Conclusions: Exploring Big History Periodizations Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions with Ideas for Further Research
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-85410-1_16

Study of Wormholes in Symmetric Teleparallel Theories of Gravity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04952

Effects of Jump Detection and Ramp Fitting Algorithms on NIRISS/SOSS Exoplanet Time-Series Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05571

The survivorship bias of protoplanetary disc populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05578

Peekaboo: Secular Resonances from Evolving Stellar Oblateness Impede Transit Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05680

Search for Exoplanetary Ring Systems with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05948

Metal-Enriched Atmospheres in Warm (Super- and Sub-)Neptunes Induced by Extreme Atmospheric Escape
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06013

A Machine-Learning Compositional Study of Exoplanetary Material Accreted Onto Five Helium-Atmosphere White Dwarfs with cecilia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06228

Persistent Periodic Signals from 51 Peg in TESS Lightcurves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/add5e0

Characterizing the Impact of Alfvén Wave Forcing in Interplanetary Space on the Distribution of Near-Earth Solar Wind Speeds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/add0a6

The Exoplanet Edge: Planets Do Not Induce Observable Transit Timing Variations with a Dominant Transit Timing Variation Period Faster than Half Their Orbital Period
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc563

A transiting multi-planet system in the 61 million year old association Theia 116
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf726/8128027

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE) IV. Complete observations, data reduction and analysis, detection performances, and final results
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa51751-24/aa51751-24.html

May 09, 2025 updates

Validating the Orbital Periods of the Coolest TESS Planet Candidates
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adcac6

JWST/NIRCam Coronagraphic Search for Hidden Planets in the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc601

Revisiting Seager’s 2013 Habitability Diagram with 2025 Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/add46f

KMT-2022-BLG-1818Lb,c: A Cold Super-Jupiter with a Saturn Sibling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05093

No Planet around the K Giant Star 42 Draconis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05260

The Influence of Passing Field Stars on the Solar System’s Dynamical Future
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04737

May 08, 2025 updates

The ouput simulation data of the Exo-FMS GCM and of the post-processing with gCMCRT for Modelling the 3D atmospheric structure of the cold Jupiter WD1856+534b orbiting a white dwarf
https://zenodo.org/records/15357129

Cosmic ray ionisation of a post-impact early Earth atmosphere – Solar cosmic ray ionisation must be considered in origin-of-life scenarios
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa52842-24/aa52842-24.html

Characterising the atmosphere of 55 Cancri e – 1D forward model grid for current and future JWST observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa54062-25/aa54062-25.html

TOI-6695: A Pair of Near-resonant Massive Planets Observed with TESS from the WINE Survey
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc44e

Minimizing Star Spot Contamination of Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy Using Alternate Normalization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03881

Using anomaly detection to search for technosignatures in Breakthrough Listen observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03927

The Eccentricity Distribution of Warm Sub-Saturns in TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04106

Atmospheric loss during giant impacts: mechanisms and scaling of near- and far-field loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04343

Double Hot Jupiters Through ZLK Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04398

May 07, 2025 updates

Polarized pulse pair observations during a long duration interstellar communication experiment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19765

Training a convolutional neural network for exoplanet classification with transit photometry data
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-025-98935-8

Precise radial velocities of giant stars – XVII. Distinguishing planets from intrinsically induced radial velocity signals in evolved stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/05/aa53500-24/aa53500-24.html

Reinventing SETI – New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reinventing-seti-9780197800416

Systematic Reanalysis of KMTNet Microlensing Events. II. Two New Planets in Giant-source Events
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc73e

Asymmetry and Dynamical Constraints in Two-limbs Retrieval of WASP-39 b Inferring from JWST Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/adc803

Exoplanet Detection Using CNN
https://ijsrem.com/download/exoplanet-detection-using-cnn/

Monosilane Worlds: Sub-Neptunes with Atmospheres Shaped by Reduced Magma Oceans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03200

Self-limited tidal heating and prolonged magma oceans in the L 98-59 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03604

The True Stellar Obliquity of a Sub-Saturn Planet from the Tierras Observatory and KPF
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03628

Statistical geochemical constraints on present-day water outgassing as a source of secondary atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03672

Young Planets around Young Accreting Stars: I. Migration and Inner Stalling Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03701

Effects of transient stellar emissions on planetary climates of tidally-locked exo-earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03723

A transiting rocky super-Earth and a non-transiting sub-Neptune orbiting the M dwarf TOI-771
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18223

May 06, 2025 updates

Life Beyond Earth: The Fermi Paradox — Or Why We Are Still Waiting to Meet Aliens
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-81695-6

Exoplanet Detection with Deep Learning
https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/4bda3bd1-2c55-4e36-9913-cf5f66776f53/content

BEYOND THE HUMAN: TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS AND POSTHUMANISM IN CIXIN LIU’S THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM
https://al-aasar.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/242

Membrane-Spanning Molecular Lengths as an Agnostic Biosignature
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2024.0125

Benchmark stars for mean stellar density and surface gravity estimates of solar-type stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf735/8125470

A differentiable N-body code for transit timing and dynamical modelling – II. Photodynamics
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staf687/8125473

Peeking under the clouds:Is exoplanet imaging with the solar gravitational lens feasible?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/add3a3

Seismic Oscillations Excited by Giant Impacts in Directly-Imaged Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01496

Comparative Biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01512

Dark skies of the slightly eccentric WASP-18 b from its optical-to-infrared dayside emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01544

From Tides to Currents: Unraveling the Mechanism That Powers WASP-107b’s Internal Heat Flux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01581

Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES). IV. Synergy between astrometry and direct imaging missions of the Habitable World Observatory for detecting Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02818