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 24, 2021 updates

OGLE-2018-BLG-1428Lb: a Jupiter-mass planet beyond the snow line of a dwarf star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11463

Mass and density of the transiting hot and rocky super-Earth LHS 1478 b (TOI-1640 b)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11640

Oxygen as a control over 2.4 billion years of Earth’s atmospheric evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11675

Cloud property trends in hot and ultra-hot giant gas planets (WASP-43b, WASP-103b, WASP-121b, HAT-P-7b, and WASP-18b)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11688

The rotational and divergent components of atmospheric circulation on tidally locked planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11760

February 23, 2021 updates

Are There Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet Qatar-1b?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd4d8

The TESS–Keck Survey. IV. A Retrograde, Polar Orbit for the Ultra-low-density, Hot Super-Neptune WASP-107b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd177

A Multiwavelength Look at the GJ 9827 System: No Evidence of Extended Atmospheres in GJ 9827b and d from HST and CARMENES Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abdb2f

Photochemical modelling of atmospheric oxygen levels confirms two stable states
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X21000777

Effects of the IMF direction on atmospheric escape from a Mars‐like planet under weak intrinsic magnetic field conditions
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA028485

Automated identification of transiting exoplanet candidates in NASA Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) data with machine learning methods
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10326

February 22, 2021 updates

On Opening the Gate to the Stars and the Drake Equation
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=106947

Evolution of Earth-like extended exospheres orbiting solar-like stars
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab492/6146082

Which Jurisdiction for Private In-space Assembled Autonomous Platforms?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964621000059

The Physics of Falling Raindrops in Diverse Planetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09570

February 19, 2021 updates

Breaking the warp barrier: Hyper-fast solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-plasma theory
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abe692

Revealing peculiar exoplanetary shadows from transit light curves
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa39050-20/aa39050-20.html

Semianalytical model for planetary resonances – Application to planets around single and binary stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa39764-20/aa39764-20.html

ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa39511-20/aa39511-20.html

The GAPS Programme at TNG – XXIX. No detection of reflected light from 51 Peg b using optical high-resolution spectroscopy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa39271-20/aa39271-20.html

Target Prioritization and Observing Strategies for the NEID Earth Twin Survey
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd79e

A Near-Infrared Chemical Inventory of the Atmosphere of 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08965

K2-138 g: Spitzer Spots a Sixth Planet for the Citizen Science System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08978

Planets Across Space and Time (PAST). I. Characterizing the Memberships of Galactic Components and Stellar Ages: Revisiting the Kinematic Methods and Applying to Planet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09424

A super-Earth on a close-in orbit around the M1V star GJ 740. A HADES and CARMENES collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.09441

February 18, 2021 updates

A Simplified Photodynamical Model for Planetary Mass Determination in Low-eccentricity Multitransiting Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc87a

Survival of desert algae Chlorella exposed to Mars-like near space environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221455242100016X

Metastable Helium Reveals an Extended Atmosphere for the Gas Giant HAT-P-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08392

On the Capture of Interstellar Objects by our Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08488

Can planets be pushed into a disc inner cavity by a resonant chain?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08612

Higher Compact Multiple Occurrence Around Metal-Poor M-Dwarfs and Late K-Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08839

HD 76920b pinned down: a detailed analysis of the most eccentric planetary system around an evolved star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08902