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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September 27, 2024 updates

Follow the serpentine as a comprehensive diagnostic for extraterrestrial habitability
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02373-x

The erosion of large primary atmospheres typically leaves behind substantial secondary atmospheres on temperate rocky planets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-024-52642-6

A Thermodynamic Criterion for the Formation of Circumplanetary Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad644a

A Novel Method to Constrain Tidal Quality Factor from A Nonsynchronized Exoplanetary System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad67c9

On the Value of High Precision Radial Velocity Observations and Astrometric Orbits for Binary Stars Hosting Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad7e23

MODEL&CO: Exoplanet detection in angular differential imaging by learning across multiple observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17178

Most Super-Earths Have Less Than 3% Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17394

TOI-2458 b: A mini-Neptune consistent with in situ hot Jupiter formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17532

TOI-5005 b: A super-Neptune in the savanna near the ridge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18129

September 26, 2024 updates

Radial velocity analysis of stars with debris discs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2223/7775530

Probing the Possible Causes of the Transit Timing Variation for TrES-2b in the TESS Era
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad6d66

Christian Huygens and William Derham and 18th Century Precursors to the Habitable Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad7e21

Forming planetary systems that contain only minor planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16354

Tidally Heated Sub-Neptunes, Refined Planetary Compositions, and Confirmation of a Third Planet in the TOI-1266 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16374

Searching for GEMS: TOI-6383Ab, a giant planet transiting an M3-dwarf star in a binary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16889

Searching for substellar companion candidates with Gaia. I. Introducing the GaiaPMEX tool
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16992

Searching for substellar companion candidates with Gaia. II. A catalog of 9,698 planet candidate solar-type hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16993

JWST/NIRISS and HST: Exploring the improved ability to characterise exoplanet atmospheres in the JWST era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17042

Effects of the internal temperature on vertical mixing and on cloud structures in Ultra Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17101

September 25, 2024 updates

An exoplanet bonanza and hopes of extraterrestrial life
https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-024-00180-6

Handbook of Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-319-30648-3

Earth’s Mesosphere During Possible Encounters With Massive Interstellar Clouds 2 and 7 Million Years Ago
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL110174

RV Measurements of Directly Imaged Brown Dwarf GQ Lup B to Search for Exosatellites
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad73d8

Ocean Circulation on Tide-locked Lava Worlds. II. Scalings
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ad70b4

Radiative signatures of circumplanetary disks and envelopes during the late stages of giant planet formation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103524003877

Radio Signatures of Star-Planet Interactions, Exoplanets, and Space Weather
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15507

Secrets in the shadow: High precision stellar abundances of fast-rotating A-type exoplanet host stars through transit spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15951

Macroscopic traversable wormholes: minimum requirements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16184

Star-Planet Interactions in the Radio Domain: Prospect for Their Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16038

The CHEOPS view on the climate of WASP-3 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16268

Extreme Weather Variability on Hot Rocky Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Explained by Magma Temperature-Cloud Feedback
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16270

Gaussian Process Models Impact the Inferred Properties of Giant Planets around Active Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15407

September 24, 2024 updates

On the physical foundations of interstellar space travel
https://buchshop.bod.de/on-the-physical-foundations-of-interstellar-space-travel-erik-kolek-9783759731159

On the technological foundations of interstellar space travel
https://buchshop.bod.de/on-the-technological-foundations-of-interstellar-space-travel-erik-kolek-9783759785237

Life on alien planets probably wouldn’t experience day and night – here’s how that may change evolution
https://www.space.com/life-alien-planets-wouldnt-experience-day-and-night-evolution

How AI is helping us search the universe for alien technosignatures
https://www.space.com/how-ai-is-helping-search-for-alien-technosignatures

Evidence for morning-to-evening limb asymmetry on the cool low-density exoplanet WASP-107 b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02367-9

Suppression of giant planet formation around low-mass stars in clustered environments
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/09/aa51051-24/aa51051-24.html

Stellar Characterization and Chemical Abundances of Exoplanet-hosting M Dwarfs from APOGEE Spectra: Future JWST Targets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad5004

Sculpting of Exoplanetary Systems Driven by a Misaligned Disk and Stellar Oblateness: Origin of Perpendicular Orbits in HD 3167
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad77d6

The evolutionary divergence of Mars, Venus, and Earth
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780323997621001042

Impacting Atmospheres: How Late-Stage Pollution Alters Exoplanet Composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13820

Comparative Planetology of Magnetic Effects in Ultrahot Jupiters: Trends in High Resolution Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13840

A High-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey of Directly Imaged Companion Hosts: I. Determination of diagnostic stellar abundances for planet formation and composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14239

Self-sustaining living habitats in extraterrestrial environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14477

Partial disruption of a planet around a white dwarf: the effect of perturbation from the remnant planet on the accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14717

September 23, 2024 Updates

Review on Past, Present and Future Rocket Propulsion Technologies
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384019582_Review_on_Past_Present_and_Future_Rocket_Propulsion_Technologies

Matter Geometry Coupling and Casimir Wormhole Geometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12160

Viewing the PLATO LOPS2 Field Through the Lenses of TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13039

Exoplanet Demographics: Physical and Orbital Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13062

White Dwarf Systems: the Composition of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13294

Discovery of small ultra-short-period planets orbiting Kepler KG dwarfs with GPU phase folding and deep learning
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2155/7762975

Abiotic Production of Dimethyl Sulfide, Carbonyl Sulfide, and Other Organosulfur Gases via Photochemistry: Implications for Biosignatures and Metabolic Potential
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad74da