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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June 03, 2024 updates

Recipes for forming a carbon–rich giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19748

Internal Nuclear Propulsion System for Future Space Applications
https://acceleron.org.in/index.php/aaj/article/view/115

HST SHEL: Enabling Comparative Exoplanetology with HST/STIS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20361

Identifying and Fitting Eclipse Maps of Exoplanets with Cross-Validation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20689

Shallower radius valley around low-mass hosts: Evidence for icy planets, collisions or high-energy radiation scatter
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1376/7686126

Direct Imaging Detection of the Protoplanet AB Aur b at Wavelengths Covering Paβ
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad50ce

The Abundance of Chlorine in the Atmosphere of HD 87240
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad50d8

The GAPS Programme at TNG – LIV. A He I survey of close-in giant planets hosted by M-K dwarf stars with GIANO-B
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa48997-23/aa48997-23.html

Thermal structure of circumbinary discs: Circumbinary planets should be icy, not rocky
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa49237-24/aa49237-24.html

Examining the detectability of ringing on highly eccentric exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa49169-24/aa49169-24.html

Repeating X-ray bursts: Interaction between a neutron star and clumps partially disrupted from a planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa47828-23/aa47828-23.html

May 31, 2024 updates

Drosophila parasitoids go to space: Unexpected effects of spaceflight on hosts and their parasitoids
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)02836-5

TASTE – V. A new ground-based investigation of orbital decay in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa48363-23/aa48363-23.html

How do wavelength correlations affect transmission spectra? Application of a new fast and flexible 2D Gaussian process framework to transiting exoplanet spectroscopy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa47613-23/aa47613-23.html

General Post-Newtonian Orbital Effects
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/general-postnewtonian-orbital-effects/FCC595138F971501888E513BADA58680

A Unified Treatment of Kepler Occurrence to Trace Planet Evolution. II. The Radius Cliff Formed by Atmospheric Escape
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad434c

Mass–Radius Relationships and Contraction of Condensed Planets by Cooling or Despinning
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad4113

Lethal surface ozone concentrations are possible on habitable zone exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20167

Enhancing Exoplanet Ephemerides by Leveraging Professional and Citizen Science Data: A Test Case with WASP-77A b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19615

Paths to Robust Exoplanet Science Yield Margin for the Habitable Worlds Observatory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19418

Bioverse: GMT and ELT Direct Imaging and High-Resolution Spectroscopy Assessment – Surveying Exo-Earth O2 and Testing the Habitable Zone Oxygen Hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11423

Motivating Emissions from Positive Energy Warp Bubbles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19381

Significant mutual inclinations between the stellar spin and the orbits of both planets in the HAT-P-11 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19510

Planet-Planet Scattering and ZLK Migration — The Dynamical History of HAT-P-11
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19511

Recipes for forming a carbon-rich giant planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19748

A Larger Sample Confirms Small Planets Around Hot Stars Are Misaligned
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20035

HIP 41378 observed by CHEOPS: Where is planet d?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20077

Fleeting but not Forgotten: the Imprint of Escaping Hydrogen Atmospheres on Super-Earth Interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14072

May 30, 2024 updates

Superluminal Spaceflight, Negative Mass, Closed Time Like Curves, Manipulation of Inertia by Advanced Electromagnetic Fields and Speculations on Time and Energy
https://www.ijscia.com/superluminal-spaceflight-negative-mass-closed-time-like-curves-manipulation-of-inertia-by-advanced-electromagnetic-fields-and-speculations-on-time-and-energy/

Abiotic formation of alkylsulfonic acids in interstellar analog ices and implications for their detection on Ryugu
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48684-5

Comparison of Machine-learning and Bayesian Inferences for the Interior of Rocky Exoplanets with Large Compositional Diversity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ad3f1c

Exoplanet Aeronomy: A Case Study of WASP-69b’s Variable Thermosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19177

Observation of Significant Photosynthesis in Garden Cress and Cyanobacteria under Simulated Illumination from a K Dwarf Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19180

The Near-Infrared Gatherer of Helium Transits (NIGHT)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18899

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://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18950

Spectropolarimetric characterisation of exoplanet host stars in preparation of the Ariel mission. Magnetic environment of HD 63433
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19052

MHD simulations of the space weather in Proxima b: Habitability conditions and radio emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19116

May 29, 2024 updates

Visualizing hidden communities of interest: A case-study analysis of topic-based social networks in astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-05047-7

Development of SunVoyager Interstellar Precursor Probe Driven by Inertial Confinement Fusion Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A36045

Euclid’s Early Release Observations science papers
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/ero-public-release

KMT-2023-BLG-1431Lb: A New q < 10−4 Microlensing Planet from a Subtle Signature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad48b8

A remarkable mistake II. The correct conclusion of the relativistic differential equation, Tsiolkovsky formulas and new equations of jet motion in interstellar space
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380374670_A_remarkable_mistake_II_The_correct_conclusion_of_the_relativistic_differential_equation_Tsiolkovsky_formulas_and_new_equations_of_jet_motion_in_interstellar_space

A remarkable mistake III. Interstellar Flight Feasibility Analysis according to the new equations and Bassard’s idea
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380374922_A_remarkable_mistake_III_Interstellar_Flight_Feasibility_Analysis_according_to_the_new_equations_and_Bassard’s_idea

NotPlaNET: Removing False Positives from Planet Hunters TESS with Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18278

JWST-TST High Contrast: JWST/NIRCam observations of the young giant planet β Pic b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18422

May 28, 2024 updates

Decomposition of HCN during Experimental Impacts in Dry and Wet Planetary Atmospheres
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00064

Fermi Paradox versus Problem of Induction
https://philarchive.org/rec/REFPVC

The Concept of Life on Venus Informs the Concept of Habitability
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0106

Marine Science Can Contribute to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/6/676

Photodissociation and induced chemical asymmetries on ultra-hot gas giants – A case study of HCN on WASP-76 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa48022-23/aa48022-23.html

Imaging detection of the inner dust belt and the four exoplanets in the HR 8799 system with JWST’s MIRI coronagraph
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/06/aa47912-23/aa47912-23.html

GJ 238 b: A 0.57 Earth Radius Planet Orbiting an M2.5 Dwarf Star at 15.2 pc
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad3df1

The TESS-Keck Survey. VII. A Superdense Sub-Neptune Orbiting TOI-1824
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad34d9

How likely is the interstellar origin of CNEOS14? On the reliability of the CNEOS database
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17219

KMT-2023-BLG-2669: Ninth Free-floating Planet Candidate with θE measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16857

A low-mass sub-Neptune planet transiting the bright active star HD 73344
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17155

Non-Detections of Helium in the Young Sub-Jovian Planets K2-100b, HD 63433b, & V1298 Tau c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17294