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 27, 2021 updates

Initiative for the Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space
https://lasers4space.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Bohacek_PeacefulUseOfLasersInSpace.pdf

Stellar clustering and orbital architecture of planetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/05/aa40201-20/aa40201-20.html

Exoplanet mass estimation for a sample of targets for the Ariel mission
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09758-0

Simulations of starspot anomalies within TESS exoplanetary transit light curves – II. Forecasting the frequency of starspot anomalies appearing in TESS exoplanetary transit light curves
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/05/aa38261-20/aa38261-20.html

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG. XXXI. The WASP-33 system revisited with HARPS-N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12138

May 26, 2021 updates

Improved Constraints for the XUV Luminosity Evolution of Trappist-1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac034c

Survival of exomoons around exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12040

The California Legacy Survey I. A Catalog of 177 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11583

California Legacy Survey II. Occurrence of Giant Planets Beyond the Ice line
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11584

orvara: An Efficient Code to Fit Orbits using Radial Velocity, Absolute, and/or Relative Astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11671

May 25, 2021 updates

Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-642-27833-4

Humanity should colonize space in order to survive but not with embryo space colonization
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/humanity-should-colonize-space-in-order-to-survive-but-not-with-embryo-space-colonization/474332A09E34142E77684A49B95A7684

Space ectogenesis: securing survival of humans and Earth life with minimal risks – reply to Szocik
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/space-ectogenesis-securing-survival-of-humans-and-earth-life-with-minimal-risks-reply-to-szocik/CB361AEA98A8FB7672DA9F79E383DD60

Where is the Water? Jupiter-like C/H ratio but strong H2O depletion found on τ Boötis b using SPIRou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10513

Decomposing the Iron Cross-Correlation Signal of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-76b in Transmission using 3D Monte-Carlo Radiative Transfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11034

Redox hysteresis of super-Earth exoplanets from magma ocean circulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11208

Stellar winds and planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11243

Relativistic light sails need to billow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10849

May 24, 2021 updates

Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23258-x

A simple analysis of earthlike exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351744403_A_simple_analysis_of_earthlike_exoplanets

On planetary systems as ordered sequences
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09966

The Detectability of Nightside City Lights on Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09990

Radius and mass distribution of ultra-short period planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10001

On the formation of terrestrial planets between two massive planets: The case of 55 Cancri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10105

Detection of Fe and evidence for TiO in the dayside emission spectrum of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10230

The Featureless HST/WFC3 Transmission Spectrum of the Rocky Exoplanet GJ 1132b: No Evidence For A Cloud-Free Primordial Atmosphere and Constraints on Starspot Contamination
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10487

May 21, 2021 updates

Induced Torpor as a Countermeasure for Low Dose Radiation Exposure in a Zebrafish Model
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/10/4/906

Transit Search for Exoplanets around Alpha Centauri A and B with ASTERIA
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf2c0

OGLE-2017-BLG-1434Lb: Confirmation of a Cold Super-Earth Using Keck Adaptive Optics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abfda3

Differentiating Modern and Prebiotic Earth Scenarios for TRAPPIST-1e: High-resolution Transmission Spectra and Predictions for JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09319

A Preponderance of Perpendicular Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09327

Orbital Decay of Short-Period Exoplanets via Tidal Resonance Locking
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09335

‘Oumuamua as a light sail — evidence against artificial origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09435

Multi-band transit follow up observations of five hot-Jupiters with critical noise treatments: Improved physical properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09668

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets — XVII. A wealth of new objects: Six cool Jupiters, three brown dwarfs, and 16 low-mass binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09741

Constraints on the nearby exoplanet ε Ind Ab from deep near/mid-infrared imaging limits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09773