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 01, 2024 Updates

Interstellar Exploration: From Science Fiction to Actual Technology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576524003655

Shoulder of Dust Rings Formed by Planet-disk Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19438

Water Evolution & Inventories of Super-Earths Orbiting Late M-Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19923

The Solar System could have formed in a low-viscosity disc: A dynamical study from giant planet migration to the Nice model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.20075

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). X. A Two-planet System in the 210 Myr MELANGE-5 Association
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad4993

The Nonsingular Estimator for Exoplanet Orbits: An Unscented Batch Estimation Method for Direct Imaging Measurements
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad4a5e

SPHERE RefPlanets: Search for ε Eridani b and warm dust
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49442-24/aa49442-24.html

June 28, 2024 updates

High resolution atmospheric retrievals of WASP-76b transmission spectroscopy with ESPRESSO: Monitoring limb asymmetries across multiple transits
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49449-24/aa49449-24.html

HATS-38 b and WASP-139 b join a growing group of eccentric hot Neptunes on polar orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18631

Unveiling the internal structure and formation history of the three planets transiting HIP 29442 (TOI-469) with CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18653

Eccentricity and Inclination of Massive Planets Inside Low-density Cavities: Results of 3D Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18834

Stability of the Potential Super Jupiter in Alpha Centauri System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19177

June 27, 2024 updates

Chemical Complexity in Planetary Systems
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00155

Resonant sub-Neptunes are puffier
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa50587-24/aa50587-24.html

Looking for atmospheres in the ultimate quest for extraterrestrial life
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-atmospheres-ultimate-quest-extraterrestrial-life.html

Mantle Mineralogy of Reduced Sub-Earths Exoplanets and Exo-Mercuries
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE008234

New ephemerides and detection of transit-timing variations in the K2-138 system using high-precision CHEOPS photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18267

14 New Light Curves and an Updated Ephemeris for the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-54 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18487

June 25, 2024 updates

Exploring wormhole solutions with global monopole charge in the context of f(Q) gravity
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13002-2

The pitfalls of probes: are our earthly ethical principles lost in space?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-024-01984-2

The promising Gliese 12 b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02313-9

PLATO’s signal and noise budget
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-024-09948-6

Minimum Condition Requirements in Laser Driven ICF for Advanced Space Propulsion Applications
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-01-029/

Modifications to The Alcubierre Warp Field Metric in Anisotropic Matter and Implications to Detection of Warp Fields
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-01-002/

Space Butterfly: Combining Artificial Intelligence and Genetic Engineering to Explore Multiple Stellar Systems
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-01-016/

The Destination Energy Debt of Interstellar Voyages
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/jbis-077-01-020/

Sustaining Hydrothermal Circulation With Gravity Relevant to Ocean Worlds
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JE008202

Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP). I. Nine Newly Confirmed Hot Jupiters from the TESS Mission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad4a57

The Dysgenics Objection to Longtermism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328724001009

Multiple Clues for Dayside Aerosols and Temperature Gradients in WASP-69 b from a Panchromatic JWST Emission Spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15543

Refining the WASP-132 multi-planetary system: discovery of a cold giant planet and mass measurement of a hot super-Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15986

Atmospheric Helium Abundances in the Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16024

Mind the Trap: Non-negligible effect of volatile trapping in ice on C/O ratios in protoplanetary disks and exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16029

Interior convection regime, host star luminosity, and predicted atmospheric CO2 abundance in terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16104

On the origin of polar planets around single stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16169

Dynamical structures of misaligned circumbinary planets under hierarchical three-body systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16274