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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March 11, 2021 updates

The Interstellar Downlink Principles and Current Work
https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/jid_20210201_principium.pdf

All-sky visible and near infrared space astrometry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09705-z

Normal forms for the Laplace resonance
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-021-10008-w

Modelling the projected separation of microlensing events using systematic time-series feature engineering
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133721000147

Detection of an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05657

Gemini/GMOS Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-121b: signs of variability in an ultra-hot Jupiter?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05698

NEMESIS: Exoplanet Transit Survey of Nearby M-Dwarfs in TESS FFIs I
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05647

March 10, 2021 updates

A Stationary Drake Equation Distribution as a Balance of Birth-death Processes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abeb7b

Spatially resolved spectroscopy across stellar surfaces. V. Observational prospects: Toward Earth-like exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04996

A Harsh Test of Far-Field Scrambling with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and the Hobby Eberly Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05148

Oumuamua Is Not a Probe Sent to our Solar System by an Alien Civilization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05559

Warp drive basics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05610

March 9, 2021 updates

Do Intrinsic Magnetic Fields Protect Planetary Atmospheres from Stellar Winds?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-021-00791-1

Photon-Sail Equilibria in the Alpha Centauri System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G005446

Approximating annual mean incoming solar radiation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022247X21002080

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE)- I Sample definition and target characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04366

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE) — II. Observations, Data reduction and analysis Detection performances and early-results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03976

Detectability of Rocky-Vapour Atmospheres on Super-Earths with Ariel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04342

Homogeneous model for the TRAPPIST-1e planet with an icy layer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04806

A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04950

Inclination Dynamics of Resonant Planets under the Influence of an Inclined External Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08046

March 8, 2021 updates

Giant Magellan Telescope project casts sixth mirror
https://www.space.com/giant-magellan-telescope-6th-mirror-casting

Determination of stellar parameters for Ariel targets: a comparison analysis between different spectroscopic methods
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09695-4

The contribution of water radiolysis to marine sedimentary life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21218-z

Revisiting the Kepler field with TESS: Improved ephemerides using TESS 2min data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03259

Interstellar Objects in the Solar System: 1. Isotropic Kinematics from the Gaia Early Data Release 3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03289

On the Detection of Habitable Trojan Planets in the Kepler Circumbinary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03455

March 5, 2021 updates

A Method for Creating Enormous Space Telescopes
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/03/04/a-method-for-creating-enormous-space-telescopes/

A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6533/1038

A blazing nearby super-Earth
https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2021-05-gliese486b

The JADE code: Coupling secular exoplanetary dynamics and photo-evaporation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02627

Closed-formed ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02673

A transiting warm giant planet around the young active star TOI-201
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02685

The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02694

A Gaussian Process Regression Reveals No Evidence for Planets Orbiting Kapteyn’s Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02709

Longevity is the key factor in the search for technosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02923

First Detection of Hydroxyl Radical Emission from an Exoplanet Atmosphere: High-dispersion Characterization of WASP-33b using Subaru/IRD
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03094