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 4, 2021 updates

In-Situ Exploration of Objects on Oort Cloud Comet Orbits: OCCs, Manxes, ISOs
https://baas.aas.org/pub/2021n4i282/release/1

New Frontiers Mission Concept Study to Explore Oort Cloud Comets
https://baas.aas.org/pub/2021n4i344/release/1

Astrobiology at APL—On the Path to Discovery
https://www.jhuapl.edu/Content/techdigest/pdf/V35-N04/35-04-Craft.pdf

ARES V: No Evidence For Molecular Absorption in the HST WFC3 Spectrum of GJ 1132 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01873

Sending a Spacecraft to Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06348

ACCESS & LRG-BEASTS: a precise new optical transmission spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter WASP-103b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00012

Exomoons in Systems with a Strong Perturber: Applications to α Cen AB
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00034

The sub-Neptune desert and its dependence on stellar type: Controlled by lifetime X-ray irradiation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00142

Shellspec39 — a tool for modelling the spectra, light curves, and images of interacting binaries and exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00346

True Polar Wander on Dynamic Planets: Approximative Methods vs. Full Solution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00753

The ultra-hot-Jupiter KELT-16 b: Dynamical Evolution and Atmospheric Properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00889

Superadiabaticity in Jupiter and giant planet interiors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.00961

May 3, 2021 updates

Comet Interceptor
https://www.cometinterceptor.space/

The TOLIMAN space telescope: discovering exoplanets in the solar neighbourhood
https://spie.org/Publications/Proceedings/Paper/10.1117/12.2563081

Kleos Space develops tool for in-space manufacturing of large structures
https://spacenews.com/kleos-in-space-manufacturing/

Moral Circle Expansion: A Promising Strategy to Impact the Far Future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328721000641

Absorption in exoplanet atmospheres: Combining experimental and theoretical databases to facilitate calculations of the molecular opacities of water
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407321002016

Resonant Chains of Exoplanets: Libration Centers for Three-body Angles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14665

Planetary interior and habitability of exoplanets: Recent developments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14668

TOI-269 b: An eccentric sub-Neptune transiting a M2 dwarf revisited with ExTrA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14782

April 30, 2021 updates

The Next 500 Years
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/next-500-years

The Breakthrough Listen Search For Intelligent Life Near the Galactic Center I
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14148

Folded transit photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14233

Pseudo-2D Modelling of Heat Redistribution Through H2 Thermal Dissociation/Recombination: Consequences for Ultra-Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14376

Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14457

April 29, 2021 updates

The Library of the Great Silence
https://www.seti.org/library-great-silence

Tensile–Tearing Analysis of Rectangular Thin Film with Central Defect
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.J060446

High resolution emission FT spectra of sodium in a microwave discharge: Intensity variation of the D/D lines in exoplanetary atmospheres
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022407321001825

Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Beyond the Radial Velocity Limit: Application to the HD 134987 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13531

Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13545

Orbital stability of compact three-planet systems, I: Dependence of system lifetimes on initial orbital separations and longitudes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13657

Orbital stability of compact three-planet systems, II: Post-instability impact behaviour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13658

Grazing, non-transiting disintegrating exoplanets observed with the planned Ariel space observatory — A case study using Kepler-1520b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13684

On the influence of equilibrium tides on transit-timing variations of close-in super-Earths. I. Application to single-planet systems and the case of K2-265 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13808