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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May 11, 2021 updates

EXOPLANETS AND SPACECRAFT Exercises in astronomy and space exploration for high school students
http://fiztan.phd.elte.hu/files/written_mat/astronomy_ex.pdf

Relativistically into finance
https://www.repository.utl.pt/handle/10400.5/21262

Venus, an Astrobiology Target
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2268

Experimental Determination of Mantle Solidi and Melt Compositions for Two Likely Rocky Exoplanet Compositions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006731

Long Period Jovian Tilts the Orbits of Two sub-Neptunes Relative to Stellar Spin Axis in Kepler-129
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03446

The orbital evolution of resonant chains of exoplanets incorporating circularisation produced by tidal interaction with the central star with application to the HD 158259 and EPIC 245950175 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03652

Systematic search for long-term transit duration changes in Kepler transiting planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04318

An interstellar communication method: system design and observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03727

The Drake Equation at 60: Reconsidered and Abandoned
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03984

May 10,2021 updates

Why Are We Here?: Constraining the Milky Way’s Galactic Habitable Zone
https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-60np-j341

Exocometary Activity Around Stars at Different Evolutionary Stages: Current Issues
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0884591321020057

Light sail boosted by instantaneous radiation pressure
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01357-4

Time-domain Modulation of HD 189733 Activities by Its Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf55d

An upper limit for the growth of inner planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02907

Estimating Ion Escape from Unmagnetized Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03174

Looking for astrometric signals below 20 m/s: A candidate exo-Jupiter in δ Pav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03244

Feasibility of Detecting Interstellar Panspermia in Astrophysical Environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03295

May 7, 2021 updates

Modal Analysis of Electric sail
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521002277

The post-main-sequence fate of the HR 8799 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02243

Grid of Pseudo-2D Chemistry Models for Tidally-Locked Exoplanets. I. The Role of Vertical and Horizontal Mixing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02245

Creep Tide Model for the 3-Body Problem. The rotational evolution of a circumbinary planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02336

Detecting General Relativistic Orbital Precession in Transiting Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02555

May 6, 2021 updates

A fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making approach for Exo-Planetary Habitability
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133721000251

Massive search of spot- and facula-crossing events in 1598 exoplanetary transit lightcurves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01704

TOI-220 b: a warm sub-Neptune discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01944

TESS and HARPS reveal two sub-Neptunes around TOI 1062
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01945

exoplanet: Gradient-based probabilistic inference for exoplanet data & other astronomical time series
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01994