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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February 12, 2021 updates

Implications of the iron oxide phase transition on the interiors of rocky exoplanets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-00684-y

Myocardial Disease and Long-Distance Space Travel: Solving the Radiation Problem
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.631985/full

Steady state by recycling prevents premature collapse of protoplanetary atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/02/aa40220-20/aa40220-20.html

A new approach to spectroscopic phase curves – The emission spectrum of WASP-12b observed in quadrature with HST/WFC3
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa38865-20/aa38865-20.html

HD 219134 Revisited: Planet d Transit Upper Limit and Planet f Transit Nondetection with ASTERIA and TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abcd3d

Study on superconducting magnetic shield for the manned long termed space voyages
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110982321000016

Minimal conditions for survival of technological civilizations in the face of stellar evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05703

Impact of photochemical hazes and gases on exoplanet atmospheric thermal structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05763

Relative occurrence rates of terrestrial planets orbiting FGK stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05808

Dynamical orbital evolution scenarios of the wide-orbit eccentric planet HR 5183b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06031

February 1, 2021 updates

Enhancing Direct Exoplanet Spectroscopy with Apodizing and Beam Shaping Optics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/abdace

Cloud Parameterizations and their Effect on Retrievals of Exoplanet Reflection Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05305

Limits on the presence of planets in systems with debris disks: HD 92945 and HD 107146
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05353

HATS-34b and HATS-46b: Re-characterisation Using TESS and Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05420

February 9, 2021 updates

On the Energetics of Large-Scale Computation using Astronomical Resources
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GQbS34OkMF6q9r0ZyuSvB9hu4TUQL-Nc

Hot Jupiters: Origins, Structure, Atmospheres
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006629

Aerosols in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03480

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets XLV. Two Neptune mass planets orbiting HD 13808: a study of stellar activity modelling’s impact on planet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03387

Observable Predictions from Perturber-coupled High-eccentricity Tidal Migration of Warm Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03427

Search for (sub)stellar companions of exoplanet hosts by exploring the second ESA-Gaia data release
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04385

February 8, 2021 updates

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov: dust composition from multiband photometry and modelling
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/502/2/1882/6129807

Parametrizing XO-2b exoplanet
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349086388_Parametrizing_XO-2b_exoplanet

Host-star and exoplanet compositions: a pilot study using a wide binary with a polluted white dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02843

Detecting Atmospheric Molecules of Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets using High-Resolution Spectroscopy in the Mid Infrared Domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03194

3-D climate simulations for the detectability of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03255