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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August 31, 2021 updates

Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology: From the extraterrestrial intelligence myth to astroethics
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/6855

Closed-form ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01444-7

Characterizing Undetected Stellar Companions with Combined Data Sets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0ae9

Optimizing Startshot lightsail design: a generative network-based approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12999

Multiple moist climate equilibrium states on arid rocky M-dwarf planets: A last-saturation tracer analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12458

Milankovitch Cycles for a Circumstellar Earth-analog within α Centauri-like Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12650

Abiotic molecular oxygen production — ionic pathway from sulphur dioxide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12672

August 30, 2021 updates

The 2021 Assembly of the Order of the Octopus
https://zenodo.org/communities/octopusassembly2021/?page=1&size=20

Scientific Targets of Tanpopo: Astrobiology Exposure and Micrometeoroid Capture Experiments at the Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility of the International Space Station
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2426

Internal gravity waves in a stratified layer atop a convecting liquid core in a non-rotating spherical shell
https://academic.oup.com/gji/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/gji/ggab343/6359145

Chemical evidence for planetary ingestion in a quarter of Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12040

SPORK That Spectrum: Increasing Detection Significances from High-Resolution Exoplanet Spectroscopy with Novel Smoothing Algorithms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12057