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 11, 2021 updates

ExoClock project: an open platform for monitoring the ephemerides of Ariel targets with contributions from the public
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09696-3

Dust Production of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Throughout Perihelion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0fd8

Obliquity and Eccentricity Constraints For Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09240

Photochemistry and Spectral Characterization of Temperate and Gas-Rich Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04419

Unveiling shrouded oceans on temperate sub-Neptunes via transit signatures of solubility equilibria vs. gas thermochemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04745

August 10, 2021 updates

Exploration of the solar system and beyond using a thermonuclear fusion drive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01689

A Proposed Geobiology-Driven Nomenclature for Astrobiological In Situ Observations and Sample Analyses
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2318

Did Solid Surfaces Enable the Origin of Life?
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/8/795/htm

Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Displacement-Cosmobiology-Cosmolocality-Cosmosocioecology-ebook/dp/B084T5QSDM

Restoring optical forces and torques for passive stabilization of microscopic lightsails
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11798/2594383/Restoring-optical-forces-and-torques-for-passive-stabilization-of-microscopic/10.1117/12.2594383.short

Minimal Crew And Human Evolution In Multi-Generational Interstellar Travel Based On Population Genetics
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/minimal-crew-and-human-evolution-in-multi-generational-interstellar-travel-based-on-population-genetics/

On the Need for a Classification System for Consistent Characterization of the Composition of Planetary Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03343

Does detecting water vapors on rocky planets indicate the presence of oceans?: An insight from self-consistent mantle degassing models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03759

Spitzer Dayside Emission of WASP-34b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04101

Idealized 2D Cloud-Resolving Simulations for Tidally Locked Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04143

August 9, 2021 updates

The Benefits of Spin Polarization for Fusion Propulsion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01211

Phosphine and nitrous oxide as false-positive biosignature gases in planetary spectra
https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/128311

How the Geomagnetic Field Influences Life on Earth – An Integrated Approach to Geomagnetobiology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-021-09612-5

The GLINT South testbed for nulling interferometry with photonics: Design and on-sky results at the Anglo-Australian Telescope
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/abs/glint-south-testbed-for-nulling-interferometry-with-photonics-design-and-onsky-results-at-the-angloaustralian-telescope/1B19245ACD492BD05C2AFB15F2ADE689

Beating 1 Sievert: Optimal Radiation Shielding of Astronauts on a Mission to Mars
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021SW002749

Angular momentum distributions for observed and modeled exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02890

Dynamical stability of giant planets: the critical adiabatic index in the presence of a solid core
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03160

August 6, 2021 updates

Ultra-short-period Planets in K2. III. Neighbors are Common with 13 New Multiplanet Systems and 10 Newly Validated Planets in Campaigns 0–8 and 10
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ac0ea0

TESS-Keck Survey IX: Masses of Three Sub-Neptunes Orbiting HD 191939 and the Discovery of a Warm Jovian Plus a Distant Sub-Stellar Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02208

TESS Giants Transiting Giants I: A Non-inflated Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Massive Subgiant
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02294

Constraining the Orbit and Mass of ε Eridani b with Radial Velocities, Hipparcos IAD-{Gaia~DR2} Astrometry, and Multi-epoch Vortex Coronagraphy Upper Limits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02305

TOI-431/HIP 26013: a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune transiting a bright, early K dwarf, with a third RV planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02310

August 5, 2021 updates

Warm terrestrial planet with half the mass of Venus transiting a nearby star
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140728

Giant white-light flares on fully convective stars occur at high latitudes
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2159/6339287

Habitable zones with an earth climate history model
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063321001574

Tidally distorted barytropes and their Roche limits, with application to WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01675

A Comparative Study of Atmospheric Chemistry with VULCAN
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01790

Intelligent Responses to Our Technological Signals Will Not Arrive In Fewer Than Three Millennia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01690

Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01730

Solar sail with superconducting circular current-carrying wire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01686