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 10, 2024 updates

A Review of Wormhole Stabilization in f(R) Gravity Theories
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202405.0451/v1

Prebiotic membrane structures mimic the morphology of alleged early traces of life on Earth
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s43247-024-01372-0

VaTEST III: Validation of eight potential super-earths from TESS data
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/abs/vatest-iii-validation-of-eight-potential-superearths-from-tess-data/3E058C6C75D748F4F762D074D84514A7

Where Are the Water Worlds? Identifying Exo-water-worlds Using Models of Planet Formation and Atmospheric Evolution
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3802

The Detection of a Possible Exoplanet Orbiting KIC 1718360 Using Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05282

The Hot Jupiter Radius Anomaly and Stellar Connections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05307

Abundances of Elements in Solar Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05324

Resonant chains in triple-planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05362

Carbon cycle instability for high-CO2 exoplanets: Implications for habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05396

May 09, 2024 updates

A secondary atmosphere on the rocky Exoplanet 55 Cancri e
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07432-x

Characterization of the regimes of hydrodynamic escape from low-mass exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41550-024-02269-w

This Earth-like exoplanet is the first confirmed to have an atmosphere
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01332-w

Modeling of the Exoplanet HAT-P-11b Magnetosphere
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772924700045

Detectability of Solar Panels as a Technosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04560

Characterizing Exoplanetary Atmospheres: New Views on Exoplanet Composition and Chemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04587

Likelihood and appearance of life beyond the Earth: An astronomical perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05115

May 08, 2024 updates

The terrestrial trap: International Relations beyond Earth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-international-studies/article/terrestrial-trap-international-relations-beyond-earth/AE58C56DA2652F1D45E2F351006F85A8

The search for Life beyond Earth: search E.T life similar To Earth
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377984011_The_search_for_Life_beyond_Earth_search_ET_life_similar_To_Earth

The early Earth as an analogue for exoplanetary biogeochemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15432

Artificial Broadcasts as Galactic Populations. I. A Point Process Formalism for Extraterrestrial Intelligences and Their Broadcasts
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad11f2

Artificial Broadcasts as Galactic Populations. II. Comparing Individualist and Collective Bounds on Broadcast Populations in Single Galaxies
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad11f1

Scattering of Giant Planets and Implications for the Origin of the Hierarchical and Eccentric Two-planet System GJ 1148
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04045

Super-Earths and Earth-like Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04057

How the presence of a giant planet affects the outcome of terrestrial planet formation simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04228

The six-planet resonant chain of HD 110067
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04527

Computing the interaction of light pulses with objects moving at relativistic speeds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05117

May 07, 2024 updates

Constant velocity physical warp drive solution
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ad26aa

TESS and ESPRESSO discover a super-Earth and a mini-Neptune orbiting the K-dwarf TOI-238
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa48958-23/aa48958-23.html

Constraining the formation of WASP-39b using JWST transit spectroscopy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa47124-23/aa47124-23.html

Potential surface ice distribution on close-in terrestrial exoplanets around M dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1200/7665754

Project Hephaistos – II. Dyson sphere candidates from Gaia DR3, 2MASS, and WISE
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1186/7665761

Impact of Planetary Parameters on Water Clouds Microphysics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad3242

The Implications of Thermal Hydrodynamic Atmospheric Escape on the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02401

Exomoons & Exorings with the Habitable Worlds Observatory I: On the Detection of Earth-Moon Analog Shadows & Eclipses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02408

Information content of JWST spectra of WASP-39b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02656

Stellar X-ray activity and habitability revealed by ROSAT sky survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02863

May 06, 2024 Updates

Space Technology — A Short Introduction
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-34818-1

Prioritizing High-Precision Photometric Monitoring of Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf Companions with JWST — Strategic Exoplanet Initiatives with HST and JWST White Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01605

Revealing H2O dissociation in WASP-76~b through combined high- and low-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01933

Direct detectability of tidally heated exomoons by photometric orbital modulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01970

How Rare are TESS Free-Floating Planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02279

A Search for Non-Transiting Exoplanets with Optical Light Phase Curves from TESS Southern Ecliptic Sectors
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1197/7664398

A Report on Stellar Companion Mass Estimates within Our Solar Neighborhood
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad4608

89 New Ultracool Dwarf Comoving Companions Identified with the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad324e

Study of type II migration under the framework of the disk instability model for giant planet formation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa48347-23/aa48347-23.html