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 23, 2021 updates

Evaluating the Microbial Habitability of Rogue Planets and Proposing Speculative Scenarios on How They Might Act as Vectors for Panspermia
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/8/833

Anomalous Stellar Acceleration: Causes And Consequences
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/anomalous-stellar-acceleration-causes-and-consequences/

Comparison of Deterministic Methods to Estimate Sidereal Rotation Period from Light Curves
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34976

Atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infrared: biosignatures, habitability & diversity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01316

K2, Spitzer, and TESS Transits of Four Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08889

What scientists dismiss while looking at the thresholds of temperature change for mass extinctions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08933

A 20-Second Cadence View of Solar-Type Stars and Their Planets with TESS: Asteroseismology of Solar Analogs and a Re-characterization of pi Men c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09109

Terrestrial planet formation in a circumbinary disc around a coplanar binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09257

August 20, 2021 updates

Belatedly Habitable Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac1ea2

Why Geosciences and Exoplanetary Sciences Need Each Other
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08382

Compositional Diversity of Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08383

Exogeology from Polluted White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08384

The Diversity of Exoplanets: From Interior Dynamics to Surface Expressions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08385

Leveraging Models to Constrain the Climates of Rocky Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08386

The air over there: exploring exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08387

Starting Life and Searching for Life on Rocky Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08388

On the Detection of Exomoons Transiting Isolated Planetary-Mass Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08323

Confirmation of Iron Emission Lines and Non-detection of Molecules on the Dayside of KELT-9b with MAROON-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08389

Characterizing exoplanetary atmospheres at high resolution with SPIRou: Detection of water on HD 189733 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08390

August 17, 2021 updates

An integrable model for first-order three-planet mean motion resonances
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-021-10035-7

Close substellar-mass companions in stellar wide binaries: Discovery and characterization with APOGEE and Gaia DR2
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2349/6352986

Exoplanet in the triple star system as the probable source of effective cyclotron emission
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063321001616

LUVOIR-ECLIPS closed-loop adaptive optics performance and contrast predictions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06403

The Pandora SmallSat: Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06438

Searching for Kardashev Type \rom{3} civilisations]{\LARGE Searching for Kardashev Type \rom{3} civilisations from High q-Value Sources in the LoTSS-DR1 Value-added Catalogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06597

Multipole representation of a generic gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07172