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. You can now search our database of interstellar updates and find items of interest to you. July 27, 2021 updates The Galileo Project https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo For the 71st IAC System Engineering a Solar Thermal Propulsion Mission Concept for Rapid Interstellar Medium Access https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-021-00077-2 TOI-1259Ab – a gas giant planet with 2.7 per cent deep transits and a bound white dwarf companion https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2129/6329054 A Mission to Nature’s Telescope for High-Resolution Imaging of an Exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11473 Revealing the Vertical Cloud Structure of a young low-mass Brown Dwarf, an analog to the beta-Pictoris b directly-imaged exoplanet, through Keck I/MOSFIRE spectro-photometric variability https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12368 July 26, 2021 updates Interior heating and outgassing of Proxima Centauri b: Identifying critical parameters https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/07/aa40176-20/aa40176-20.html Observational Consequences of Shallow-water Magnetohydrodynamics on Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10848 Weather on Other Worlds. VI. Optical Spectrophotometry of Luhman 16B Reveals Large-amplitude Variations in the Alkali Lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10995 July 23, 2021 updates A Framework for Investigating Rules of Life by Establishing Zones of Influence https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icab169/6326619 Which Milky Way Globular Clusters Might Have Favored an Extraterrestrial Civilization? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac1602 Chemical equilibrium between Cores, Mantles, and Atmospheres of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes, and Implications for their Compositions, Interiors and Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10405 Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). II: Catalog and Analyses of the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler Stellar Kinematic Properties https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10704 July 22, 2021 updates Algorithmic Speedups and Posterior Biases from Orbit Fitting of Directly Imaged Exoplanets in Cartesian Coordinates https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac151d Laplace surface dynamics, revisited: satellites, exo-planets and debris with distant, eccentric companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09682 Limits of Detecting Extraterrestrial Civilizations https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09794 July 21, 2021 updates Phosphine on Venus Cannot Be Explained by Conventional Processes https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2352 The NEID Spectrograph https://neid.psu.edu/ Constraints on the nearby exoplanet ϵ Indi Ab from deep near- and mid-infrared imaging limits https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/07/aa40730-21/aa40730-21.html Confirmation of the Long-Period Planet Orbiting Gliese 411 and the Detection of a New Planet Candidate https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09087 Into the Storm: Diving into the winds of the ultra hot Jupiter WASP-76 b with HARPS and ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09530 Why do more massive stars host larger planets? https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09534 Light-Sail Photonic Design for Fast-Transit Earth Orbital Maneuvering and Interplanetary Flight https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09121 1 2 … 178 Next →
July 27, 2021 updates The Galileo Project https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/galileo For the 71st IAC System Engineering a Solar Thermal Propulsion Mission Concept for Rapid Interstellar Medium Access https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-021-00077-2 TOI-1259Ab – a gas giant planet with 2.7 per cent deep transits and a bound white dwarf companion https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2129/6329054 A Mission to Nature’s Telescope for High-Resolution Imaging of an Exoplanet https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.11473 Revealing the Vertical Cloud Structure of a young low-mass Brown Dwarf, an analog to the beta-Pictoris b directly-imaged exoplanet, through Keck I/MOSFIRE spectro-photometric variability https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12368
July 26, 2021 updates Interior heating and outgassing of Proxima Centauri b: Identifying critical parameters https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/07/aa40176-20/aa40176-20.html Observational Consequences of Shallow-water Magnetohydrodynamics on Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10848 Weather on Other Worlds. VI. Optical Spectrophotometry of Luhman 16B Reveals Large-amplitude Variations in the Alkali Lines https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10995
July 23, 2021 updates A Framework for Investigating Rules of Life by Establishing Zones of Influence https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/icb/icab169/6326619 Which Milky Way Globular Clusters Might Have Favored an Extraterrestrial Civilization? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac1602 Chemical equilibrium between Cores, Mantles, and Atmospheres of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes, and Implications for their Compositions, Interiors and Evolution https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10405 Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). II: Catalog and Analyses of the LAMOST-Gaia-Kepler Stellar Kinematic Properties https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.10704
July 22, 2021 updates Algorithmic Speedups and Posterior Biases from Orbit Fitting of Directly Imaged Exoplanets in Cartesian Coordinates https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac151d Laplace surface dynamics, revisited: satellites, exo-planets and debris with distant, eccentric companions https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09682 Limits of Detecting Extraterrestrial Civilizations https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09794
July 21, 2021 updates Phosphine on Venus Cannot Be Explained by Conventional Processes https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2352 The NEID Spectrograph https://neid.psu.edu/ Constraints on the nearby exoplanet ϵ Indi Ab from deep near- and mid-infrared imaging limits https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/07/aa40730-21/aa40730-21.html Confirmation of the Long-Period Planet Orbiting Gliese 411 and the Detection of a New Planet Candidate https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09087 Into the Storm: Diving into the winds of the ultra hot Jupiter WASP-76 b with HARPS and ESPRESSO https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09530 Why do more massive stars host larger planets? https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09534 Light-Sail Photonic Design for Fast-Transit Earth Orbital Maneuvering and Interplanetary Flight https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09121
