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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April 17, 2024 updates

Alien Earths – The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250283641/alienearths

Secular evolution of circumbinary 2-planet systems with isotropically varying masses
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1015/7646871

Hyper Illumination of Exoplanets: Analytical and Numerical Approaches
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad33c1

Optimal Strategies for the Exploration of Near-by Stars
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117724003351

Development of a Simplified Quantum Receiver for Theoretical Interstellar Communication: Design and Feasibility Study
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379870323_Development_of_a_Simplified_Quantum_Receiver_for_Theoretical_Interstellar_Communication_Design_and_Feasibility_Study

Catalog of variable stars in the WD 0009+501 and GRW +708247 fields based on photometric survey data on transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10027

Inclination instability of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10080

High-resolution atmospheric retrievals of WASP-76b transmission spectroscopy with ESPRESSO: Monitoring limb asymmetries across multiple transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10463

Direct imaging of exoplanets: Legacy and prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10522

The XUV-driven escape of the planets around TOI-431 & ν2 Lupi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10673

April 16, 2024 updates

The importance of continents, oceans and plate tectonics for the evolution of complex life: implications for finding extraterrestrial civilizations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54700-x

Magnetic origin of the discrepancy between stellar limb-darkening models and observations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02252-5

Purple is the new green: biopigments and spectra of Earth-like purple worlds
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/530/2/1363/7645230

Atmospheric Mass Loss from TOI-1259 A b, a Gas Giant Planet With a White Dwarf Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08736

Astrometric detection of a Neptune-mass candidate planet in the nearest M-dwarf binary system GJ65 with VLTI/GRAVITY
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08746

Two-Dimensional Models of Microphysical Clouds on Hot Jupiters I: Cloud Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08759

Exoplanet Detection : A Detailed Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09143

Machine learning-based identification of Gaia astrometric exoplanet orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09350

Hot Jupiter Diversity and the Onset of TiO/VO Revealed by a Large Grid of Non-Grey Global Circulation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09626

Interferometer measurements in interstellar communications: methods and observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08994

April 15, 2024 Updates

Towards the Human Colonization of Other Worlds
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/towards-human-colonization-other-worlds-fernando-a-g-alcoforado/

Meeting the Alien — An Introduction to Exosociology
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-41317-0

Observation uncertainty effects on the precision of interior planetary parameters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae993/7645096?searchresult=1

The EBLM Project XII. An eccentric, long-period eclipsing binary with a companion near the hydrogen-burning limit
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae842/7645099?searchresult=1

The EBLM project – XIII. The absolute dynamical masses of the circumbinary planet host TOI-1338/BEBOP-1, and applications to the study of exoplanet atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae459/7645103?searchresult=1

The Occurrence of Small, Short-period Planets Younger than 200 Myr with TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad3108

Teegarden’s Star revisited – A nearby planetary system with at least three planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa48033-23/aa48033-23.html

April 12, 2024 updates

Defining the minimum physical requirements for life in space
https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~rwordsworth/papers/wordsworth2024defining_preprint.pdf

A Novel Abiotic Pathway for Phosphine Synthesis over Acidic Dust in Venus’ Atmosphere
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2023.0046

Transit Spectroscopy of K2-33b with Subaru/IRD: Spin-Orbit Alignment and Tentative Atmospheric Helium
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07262

Dynamical and Secular Stability of Mutually Inclined Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07264

Doomed Worlds I: No new evidence for orbital decay in a long-term survey of 43 ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07339

April 11, 2024 updates

Evolution of Earth’s oxygenation and temperature depends on surface carbonate accumulation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01429-x

Teegarden’s Star revisited – A nearby planetary system with at least three planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/04/aa48033-23/aa48033-23.html

Hot Jupiter Diversity and the Onset of TiO/VO Revealed by a Large Grid of Non-Grey Global Circulation Models
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae984/7643650

Atmospheric characterisation and tighter constraints on the orbital misalignment of WASP-94 A b with HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06550

Differences between Stable and Unstable Architectures of Compact Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06567

Constraints on atmospheric water abundance and cloud deck pressure in the warm Neptune GJ 3470 b via CARMENES transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06648

Star-planet interaction and its impact on the stellar rotation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06958

Relative Occurrence Rate Between Hot and Cold Jupiters as an Indicator to Probe Planet Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07033

Tianyu: search for the second solar system and explore the dynamic universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07149