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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November 25, 2024 Updates

Survival and Transfer of Microorganisms beyond the Earth: To What Extent are Microorganisms Tolerant to External Influences?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094624601087

When Did Stars Create the Chemical Basis of Life?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094624601105

We Are Stardust: Stellar Evolution and Our Cosmic Connection
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67275-0

He awa whiria: the tidal streams of interstellar objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14577

Decoding the Future of Exoplanets: Asteroseismic Confirmation of Subgiant and Red Giant Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14703

Radii, masses, and transit-timing variations of the three-planet system orbiting the naked-eye star TOI-396
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14911

Outer Solar System spacecraft without drag-free control to probe the μHz gravitational wave frontier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15072

PDS 70b Shows Stellar-like Carbon-to-Oxygen Ratio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15117

November 22, 2024 updates

Membrane-based mesh filter for far-infrared radiation
https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-32-25-44218

Search for Extraterrestrial Life: the “Goldilocks Zone” vs. the “Snow Maiden Zone”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094624601099

Drake Formula and Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094624600756

Migration of Celestial Bodies in the Solar System and in Some Exoplanetary Systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0038094623600105

ExoLyn: A golden mean approach to multispecies cloud modeling in atmospheric retrieval
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/11/aa51112-24/aa51112-24.html

From Stars to Life: A Quantitative Approach to Astrobiology
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/from-stars-to-life/9A6939CD062D88A34A6AAD9E3B728D3D

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Galactic Center Search for Scintillated Technosignatures
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad7e18

Puffy Venuses: The Mass–Radius Impact of Carbon-rich Atmospheres on Lava Worlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad6f03

Disk2Planet: A Robust and Automated Machine Learning Tool for Parameter Inference in Disk–Planet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8086

Constraining the Presence of Companion Planets in Hot Jupiter Planetary Systems Using Transit-timing Variation Observations from TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad89a6

The Decline and Fall of ROME. V. A Preliminary Search for Star-Disrupted Planet Interactions and Coronal Activity at 5 GHz Among White Dwarfs within 25 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13718

Planets Around Solar Twins/Analogs (PASTA) I.: High precision stellar chemical abundance for 17 planet-hosting stars and the condensation temperature trend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13825

Observing planetary gaps in the gas of debris disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14241

November 21, 2024 updates

Three Novel Approaches to Deep Space: Interstellar Travel that Transcend the Limitations Imposed by the Rocket Equation
https://sciencesforce.com/index.php/saem/article/view/427

Non-Gravitational Forces in Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10923

A giant planet transiting a 3-Myr protostar with a misaligned disk
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08123-3

Reflected-light Phase Curves with PICASO: A Kepler-7b Case Study
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad7de6

The GAPS Programme at TNG. LXV. Precise density measurement of TOI-1430 b, a young planet with an evaporating atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12795

Streams and Bubbles: Tidal Shaping of Planetary Outflows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12895

Database Design for SpExoDisks: A Database & Web Portal for Spectra of Exoplanet-Forming Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13308

Small and Close-In Planets are Uncommon around A-type Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13363

Assessing the processes behind planet engulfment and its imprints
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.13455

November 20, 2024 updates

Imprints of the Einasto density profile and complexity factor on traversable wormholes in f(R, T) theory
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13561-4

JWST COMPASS: The 3–5 μm Transmission Spectrum of the Super-Earth L 98-59 c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad73cf

Physics of mid- and low-mass stars with solar-type activity and their impact on exoplanetary environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11898

Cascade adaptive optics with a second stage based on a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11946

Irradiated Atmospheres I: Heating by Vertical-Mixing Induced Energy Transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12605

Planet-planet scattering in systems of multiple planets of unequal mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12645

The pale blue dot: using the Planetary Spectrum Generator to simulate signals from hyper realistic exo-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12708

Homogeneous planet masses I: Reanalysis of archival HARPS radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12723

Recent advances in space sailing missions and technology: review of the 6th International Symposium on Space Sailing (ISSS 2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12492

November 19, 2024 updates

Mineral and chemical detail of rocky exoplanet surfaces could be detectable
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02413-6

A Correlated-K Parameterization for O2 Photolysis in the Schumann-Runge Bands
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JD040610

Chemical evolution of an evaporating lava pool
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae2583/7903410

DIAmante TESS AutoRegressive Planet Search (DTARPS). III. Understanding the DTARPS-S Candidate Transiting Planet Catalogs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad8355

Leaning Sideways: VHS 1256−1257 b is a Super-Jupiter with a Uranus-like Obliquity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad84e5

A Map of the Orbital Landscape for Perturbing Planet Solutions for Single-Planet Systems with TTVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10493

Distribution of Europium in The Milky Way Disk; Its Connection to Planetary Habitability and The Source of The R-Process
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10711

Diversity of disc viscosities can explain the period ratios of resonant and non-resonant systems of hot super-Earths and mini-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11452