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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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

April 28, 2021 updates

Biogeographical Modeling of Alien Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2304

Improved Contrast in Images of Exoplanets Using Direct Signal-to-noise Ratio Optimization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abee7d

High contrast imaging at 10 microns, a search for exoplanets around: Eps Indi A, Eps Eri, Tau Ceti, Sirius A and Sirius B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13032

vidence for TiO in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-65 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13058

April 27, 2021 updates

Interstellar Probe: A Mission to the Heliospheric Boundary and Interstellar Medium for the Next Decade
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-3308.html

Unique heliophysics science opportunities along the Interstellar Probe journey up to 1000 AU from the Sun
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-10504.html

“In-System” Fission-Events: An Insight into Puzzles of Exoplanets and Stars?
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/7/5/118

Theoretical Constraints Imposed by Gradient Detection and Dispersal on Microbial Size in Astrobiological Environments
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2392

TOI-1431b/MASCARA-5b: A Highly Irradiated Ultra-Hot Jupiter Orbiting One of the Hottest & Brightest Known Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12078

The Detectability of Binary Star Planetary and Brown Dwarf Companions From Eclipse Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12316

The obliquity and atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-1431b (MASCARA-5b): A misaligned orbit and no signs of atomic or molecular absorptions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12414

An Open-Source Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) Code: I. Design, Tests, and Application to Exoplanet HD 189733 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12522

An Open-source Bayesian Atmospheric Radiative Transfer (BART) Code: II. The {\transit} Radiative-Transfer Module and Retrieval of HAT-P-11b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12524

An open-source Bayesian atmospheric radiative transfer (BART) code: III. Initialization, atmospheric profile generator, post-processing routines, and application to exoplanet WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12525

An N-body population synthesis framework for the formation of moons around Jupiter-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11513

April 26, 2021 updates

Understanding Pulsars and Space Navigations
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811610660

Reanalysis of the Mars500 experiment reveals common gut microbiome alterations in astronauts induced by long-duration confinement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037021001306

Inverse Design of Diffractive Relativistic Meta‐Sails via Multi‐Objective Optimization
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adts.202100047

Chance, Calculation and Life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119823971

Direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets with the ELT/HARMONI high-contrast module
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11251

Inclination-type resonance in two-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11611

Dry or water world? How the water contents of inner sub-Neptunes constrain giant planet formation and the location of the water ice line
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11631

April 23, 2021 updates

Formation of Earth-sized planets within the Kepler-1647 System Habitable Zone
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1165/6247605

Color Classification of Earth-like Planets with Machine Learning
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1144/6247611

First Space Colony: What Political System Could We Expect?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964621000187

HST PanCET Program: A Complete Near-UV to Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Hot Jupiter WASP-79b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10688

On the reliability of simulations of collisional stellar systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10843

Chemical composition of stars with massive planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10894