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 29, 2024 Updates

Innovative Hydrogen Harvesting System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2024-85485

An ultrafast algorithm for ultrafast spectroscopy
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4579424/v1

TOI-2015 b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad55ea

Planetary and Solar Electromagnetic Lensing (SEL), Geometry, Astrophysics for Exoplanet Imaging
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4925

Atmospheric Mining in the Outer Solar System: Interplanetary Transfer Vehicles, In-Situ Resource Utilization, and Moon Mining Issues
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4832

Navigating the New Frontier: Ethical, Societal, and Legal Challenges in the Space Economy
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4825

Space Launch System (SLS) for Missions to Outer Planets and Beyond
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4811

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Wavefront Control for Exoplanet Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18733

Project Draupnir: A Space Mission Concept Leveraging ISRU Based Refueling for Extended Exploration of the Asteroid Belt
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2024-4819

Additional Doppler Monitoring Corroborates HAT-P-11c as a Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad675e

TOI-2015 b: A Warm Neptune with Transit Timing Variations Orbiting an Active Mid-type M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad55ea

Variations in the Radius Distribution of Single- and Compact Multiple-transiting Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad58da

July 26, 2024 updates

Can Chirality Answer Whether We Are Alone?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/chir.23708

exoTEDRF: An EXOplanet Transit and Eclipse Data Reduction Framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17541

Climate Transition to Temperate Nightside at High Atmosphere Mass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17600

TOI-1408: Discovery and Photodynamical Modeling of a Small Inner Companion to a Hot Jupiter Revealed by TTVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17798

GJ 238 b: A 0.57 Earth Radius Planet Orbiting an M2.5 Dwarf Star at 15.2 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.18199

July 25, 2024 updates

This glowing speck is a freezing exoplanet six times the size of Jupiter
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02440-3

Machine learning for exoplanet detection in high-contrast spectroscopy: Combining cross-correlation maps and deep learning on medium-resolution integral-field spectra
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382522636_Machine_learning_for_exoplanet_detection_in_high-contrast_spectroscopy_Combining_cross-correlation_maps_and_deep_learning_on_medium-resolution_integral-field_spectra

Exo-NINJA at Subaru: fiber-fed spectro-imaging of exoplanets and circumstellar disks at R∼4000
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16746

KMT-2021-BLG-2609Lb and KMT-2022-BLG-0303Lb: Microlensing planets identified through signals produced by major-image perturbations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17002

Climate Change in Hell: Long-Term Variation in Transits of the Evaporating Planet K2-22b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17372

July 24, 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

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

Resonant chains in triple-planet systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49463-24/aa49463-24.html

Exoplanets Across Galactic Stellar Populations with PLATO: Estimating Exoplanet Yields Around FGK Stars for the Thin Disk, Thick Disk and Stellar Halo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15917

Toward Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy Using JWST/MIRI’s Medium Resolution Spectrometer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15937

Modeling Multiple Radius Valley Emergence Mechanisms With Multi-Transiting Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15979

Dust rings trap protoplanets on eccentric orbits and get consumed by them
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16546

July 23, 2024 updates

Planetary Scale Replication as an Agnostic Biosignature
https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedings/isal2024/36/68/123457

Generative AI for Space Exploration: A Frontier in Autonomous Systems
https://www.academia.edu/115667171/Generative_AI_for_Space_Exploration_A_Frontier_in_Autonomous_Systems

Compact Spatial Heterodyne Spectrographs for Future Space-Based Observations: Instrument Modeling and Applications
https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/14/4709

A temperate super-Jupiter imaged with JWST in the mid-infrared
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07837-8

PDS 70 unveiled by star-hopping: Total intensity, polarimetry, and millimeter imaging modeled in concert
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49018-23/aa49018-23.html

How planets grow by pebble accretion – V. Silicate rainout delays the contraction of sub-Neptunes
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49137-23/aa49137-23.html

Three short-period Earth-sized planets around M dwarfs discovered by TESS: TOI-5720 b, TOI-6008 b, and TOI-6086 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa49127-23/aa49127-23.html

Improving Earth-like planet detection in radial velocity using deep learning
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/07/aa50022-24/aa50022-24.html

The SHERLOCK pipeline: new exoplanet candidates in the WASP-16, HAT-P-27, HAT-P-26, and TOI-2411 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14602

The Smallsat Technology Accelerated Maturation Platform-1 (STAMP-1): A Proposal to Advance Ultraviolet Science, Workforce, and Technology for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14611

Simulation results for Robo-AO-2 using HAPA: a wavefront sensing technique for improving the adaptive optics correction of fainter stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14677

Prototyping liquid-crystal coronagraphs for exo-Earth imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14723

First Comparative Exoplanetology Within a Transiting Multi-planet System: Comparing the atmospheres of V1298 Tau b and c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14995

Super-Earth formation with slow migration from a ring in an evolving peaked disk compatible with terrestrial planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15386

Flows, Circulations, and Energy Transport in the Outer and Deep Atmospheres of Synchronous and Non-synchronous Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15602

Statistics and Habitability of F-type Star–Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15826