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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May 17, 2024 updates

Modelling Terrestrial and Potential Extraterrestrial Photopigments via Density Functional Theory
https://repository.fit.edu/etd/1425/

Activity of the Star TOI-784 and Loss of Atmospheric Mass by Its Planet
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-024-09815-4

Mass Loss from the Atmosphere of the Planet TOI-1442 c
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-024-09816-3

Feature extraction for exoplanet detection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41060-024-00552-7

Signature of the atmospheric asymmetries of hot and ultra-hot Jupiters in light curves
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa48880-23/aa48880-23.html

Star-spot activity, orbital obliquity, transmission spectrum, physical properties, and transit time variations of the HATS-2 planetary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa47872-23/aa47872-23.html

The Mantis Network – IV. A titanium cold trap on the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa44968-22/aa44968-22.html

Planets similar in size are often dissimilar in interior
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa47049-23/aa47049-23.html

Secular evolution of resonant planets in the coplanar case – Application to the systems HD 73526 and HD 31527
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa48378-23/aa48378-23.html

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. XI. Complete Sample of 2016 Subprime Field Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad3ba3

The Impact-driven Atmospheric Loss of Super-Earths around Different Spectral Types of Host Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3af9

Dark Matter Halo Parameters from Overheated Exoplanets via Bayesian Hierarchical Inference
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09578

Dynamical coupling of Keplerian orbits in a hierarchical four-body system: from the Galactic Centre to compact planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09630

The metallicity and carbon-to-oxygen ratio of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b from Gemini-S/IGRINS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09769

How planets form by pebble accretion V. Silicate rainout delays contraction of sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09900

May 16, 2024 updates

Stellar wind impact on early atmospheres around unmagnetized Earth-like planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1267/7674898

A new treatment of telluric and stellar features for medium-resolution spectroscopy and molecular mapping – Application to the abundance determination on β Pic b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa47068-23/aa47068-23.html

The Scientific Impact of a Noiseless Energy-Resolving Detector for a Future Exoplanet-Imaging Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08883

Puffy Venuses: the Mass-Radius Impact of Carbon-Rich Atmospheres on Lava Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08998

Volatile atmospheres of lava worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09284

Giant branch planetary systems: Dynamical and radiative evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09399

May 15, 2024 updates

Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02271-2

Secular evolution of resonant planets in the coplanar case – Application to the systems HD 73526 and HD 31527
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa48378-23/aa48378-23.html

Occurrence Rates of Exosatellites Orbiting 3-30MJup Hosts from 44 Spitzer Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08116

Stellar Characterization and a Chromospheric Activity Analysis of a K2 Sample of Planet-Hosting Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08128

May 14, 2024 updates

An extended low-density atmosphere around the Jupiter-sized planet WASP-193 b
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-024-02259-y

Stellar Wind and the Efficiency of Plasma Radio Emission from Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773724600188

A new treatment of telluric and stellar features for medium-resolution spectroscopy and molecular mapping – Application to the abundance determination on β Pic b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa47068-23/aa47068-23.html

A MIRI Search for Planets and Dust around WD 2149+021
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad374c

Revealing the dynamical properties of Jupiter-size exoplanets on elliptic orbits
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960077924005216

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%27s_idea

Searching for Free-Floating Planets with TESS: A Few Words of Clarification
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06735

Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy with JWST NIRSpec: Diagnostics and Homogeneous Case Study of WASP-39 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06737

TOI-2447 b / NGTS-29 b: a 69-day Saturn around a Solar analogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07367

KMT-2023-BLG-1866Lb: Microlensing super-Earth around an M dwarf host
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07514

May 13, 2024 Updates

Searching for Alien Earths: Newest Insights and Adventures
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024ESS…..530301K/abstract

The Winding Road from Origin to Emergence (of Life)
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/14/5/607

Three short-period Earth-sized planets around M dwarfs discovered by TESS: TOI-5720b, TOI-6008b and TOI-6086b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06350

ExoplANETS-A: A VO database for host stars and planetary systems: The effect of XUV on planet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06577

The Coupled Impacts of Atmospheric Composition and Obliquity on the Climate Dynamics of TRAPPIST-1e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06615

Exoplanet Transit Spectroscopy with JWST NIRSpec: Diagnostics and Homogeneous Case Study of WASP-39 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1230/7670622?searchresult=1

Diffractive Sail Trajectory Analysis with Constant Inertial Attitude
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G008136