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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June 17, 2021 updates

Interstellar objects follow the collapse of molecular clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08580

Linearized Field Deblending: PSF Photometry for Impatient Astronomers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08411

Waterworlds Probably Do Not Experience Magmatic Outgassing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08538

Discovery of an inflated hot Jupiter around a slightly evolved star TOI-1789
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08660

Idealised 3D simulations of diabatically-forced Ledoux convection. Application to the atmosphere of hot rocky exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08842

June 16, 2021 updates

Multiband Transit Follow-up Observations of Five Hot Jupiters with Critical Noise Treatments: Improved Physical Properties
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac01dd

LBT Reveals Large Dust Particles and a High Mass Loss Rate for K2-22 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07648

Possibilities for an Aerial Biosphere in Temperate Sub Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07729

Galactic Traversability: A New Concept for Extragalactic SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07739

ALMA 870 μm continuum observations of HD 100546. Evidence of a giant planet on a wide orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07757

GRAVITY K-band spectroscopy of HD 206893 B: brown dwarf or exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08249

A Large-scale Approach to Modelling Molecular Biosignatures: The Diatomics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07647

The Noonday Argument: Fine-Graining, Indexicals, and the Nature of Copernican Reasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07738

June 15, 2021 updates

Tractor beams, pressor beams, and stressor beams in general relativity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05002

The Dynamics of the Transition from Kardashev Type II to Type III Galaxies Favor Technosignature Searches in the Central Regions of Galaxies
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac0910

KMT-2019-BLG-2073: Fourth Free-floating Planet Candidate with θE < 10 μas
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abfc4a

A Tidal Origin for a Three-body Resonance in Kepler-221
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abfb78

Incorporating Inner Magnetosphere Current-driven Electron Acceleration in Numerical Simulations of Exoplanet Radio Emission
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abefd9

Planetary Systems Around White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06550

Strategies for Maximizing Detection Rate in Radio SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06594

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper II: Five New q<2×10−4 Mass-ratio Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06686

The architecture of multi-planet systems as a tracer of their formation mechanisms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07058

CHEOPS Precision Phase Curve of the Super-Earth 55 Cnc e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07443

Gravitational lensing by an extended mass distribution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06696

Nebula-Relay Hypothesis: Primitive Life in Nebula and Origin of Life on Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06396

June 14, 2021 updates

Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-70482-7

Towards Revealing the Origin of Life
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-71087-3

Principium 33
https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Principium33-print-2105280923opt.pdf

A computational method for rotating, multi-layer spheroids with internal jumps
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1658/6298235

The TESS-Keck Survey: Science Goals and Target Selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06156

June 11, 2021 updates

Presence of water on exomoons orbiting free-floating planets: a case study
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/presence-of-water-on-exomoons-orbiting-freefloating-planets-a-case-study/1863C1DB337F974DF8B2ACE4D5BB8319

The High-energy Spectrum of the Nearby Planet-hosting Inactive Mid-M Dwarf LHS 3844
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abfa1c

EDEN: Flare Activity of the Nearby Exoplanet-hosting M Dwarf Wolf 359 Based on K2 and EDEN Light Curves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf933

True Masses of the Long-period Companions to HD 92987 and HD 221420 from Hipparcos–Gaia Astrometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf932

Should We Lie to Extraterrestrials? A Critique of the Voyager Golden Records
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964621000321