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 03, 2024 updates

The most common habitable planets III – Modeling temperature forcing and surface conditions on rocky exoplanets and exomoons
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1150/7663586

On the existence and stability of traversable wormhole solutions with novel shapefunctions in the framework of F(R, Lm) gravity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1572-9494/ad3544

Traversable wormholes from Loop Quantum Gravity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2024/05/016

Formation of extraterrestrial peptides and their derivatives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00744

Science Fiction Media Representations of Exoplanets: Portrayals of Changing Astronomical Discoveries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00684

May 02, 2024 updates

Travel In Deep Dark Space with Giant LED Sail
https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/3692

Leaving Home: Opportunities and Challenges for Human Exploration of the Solar System and the Milky Way Galaxy
https://sesa.scholasticahq.com/article/117180

ethraid: A Simple Method for Characterizing Long-period Companions Using Doppler, Astrometric, and Imaging Constraints
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad390b

Gas, not dust: Migration of TESS/Gaia hot Jupiters possibly halted by the magnetospheres of protoplanetary disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00106

Is Artificial Intelligence the great filter that makes advanced technical civilisations rare in the universe?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00042

May 01, 2024 updates

Wormhole Formation with Gravitational Particle Creation Mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17208

Planet Hunters TESS. V. A Planetary System Around a Binary Star, Including a Mini-Neptune in the Habitable Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad1d5c

Initial Entropy and Potential Delayed Formation of the Directly Imaged Exoplanet AF Lep b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ad4481

SPHERE RefPlanets: Search for epsilon Eridani b and warm dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19504

April 30, 2024 updates

An Efficient Tidal Dissipation Mechanism via Stellar Magnetic Fields
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3c40

TOI-663: A newly discovered multi-planet system with three transiting mini-Neptunes orbiting an early M star
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa46899-23/aa46899-23.html

Accretion of primordial H–He atmospheres in mini-Neptunes: The importance of envelope enrichment
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa49039-23/aa49039-23.html

Time-domain analysis of multi-waveband flares from AD leonis
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1131/7659836

Simulating biosignatures from pre-oxygen photosynthesising life on TRAPPIST-1e
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1142/7659831

Research on the Optimal Design of the High-stability Optical System for Atmospheric Spectra in Transit Observation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad3eb2

Secondary eclipse and day-night modulation of exoplanets observed by transiting exoplanet survey satellite
https://tns.ewapublishing.org/article/9ff5ca7a4e5d4540b0034c78268ad111

The atmosphere of HD 149026b: Low metal-enrichment and weak energy transport
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17658

The impact of Ozone on Earth-like exoplanet climate dynamics: the case of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17972

Current laboratory performance of starlight suppression systems, and potential pathways to desired Habitable Worlds Observatory exoplanet science capabilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18036

Photo-dynamical Analysis of Circumbinary Multi-planet system TOI-1338: a Fully Coplanar Configuration with a Puffy Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18415

Detection of Fe and Ti on the dayside of the ultrahot Jupiter MASCARA-1b with CARMENES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18788

Quantifying broadband chromatic drifts in Fabry-Perot resonators for exoplanet science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10988

April 29, 2024 Updates

Manipulating the McGinty Equation to Create Stable Micro-Wormholes
https://unisciencepub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Manipulating-the-McGinty-Equation-to-Create-Stable-Micro-Wormholes.pdf

A Volume-Limited Radio Search for Magnetic Activity in 140 Exoplanets with the Very Large Array
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16940

Terrestrial planet formation from a ring: long-term simulations accounting for the giant planet instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17259

The Most Common Habitable Planets III — Modeling Temperature Forcing and Surface Conditions on Rocky Exoplanets and Exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17448

The death of Vulcan: NEID reveals the planet candidate orbiting HD 26965 is stellar activity
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad34d5

Investigating the Origins of Hot Neptunes from Radial Velocity Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad36c9

Potential climates and habitability on Gl 514 b: a super-Earth exoplanet with high eccentricity
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stae1124/7659367?searchresult=1