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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January 29, 2021 updates

Classification of orbits in three-dimensional exoplanetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/01/aa39690-20/aa39690-20.html

Modelling the imposed magnetospheres of Mars-like exoplanets: Star-planet interactions and atmospheric losses
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab225/6122573

A Heavy Molecular Weight Atmosphere for the Super-Earth π Men c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abd9b8

Icy Exomoons Evidenced by Spallogenic Nuclides in Polluted White Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abd9ba

Unlocking starlight subtraction in full data rate exoplanet imaging by efficiently updating Karhunen-Loève eigenimages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11634

Oceanic Superrotation on Tidally Locked Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11784

Life in Elliptical Galaxies: Hot Spheroids, Fast Stars, Deadly Comets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11833

Validation of HD 183579b using archival radial velocities: a warm-neptune orbiting a bright solar analog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12137

January 27, 2021 updates

The Extended Habitable Epoch of the Universe for Liquids Other than Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10341

Bioverse: a simulation framework to assess the statistical power of future biosignature surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10393

Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N VII. Elder suns with low-mass companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10410

The Linkage between the Core Mass and the Magnetic Field of an Extrasolar Giant Planet from Future Radio Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10673

Identifying Planetary Transit Candidates in TESS Full-Frame Image Light Curves via Convolutional Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10919

Development of the SPECULOOS exoplanet search project
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10970

The best place and time to live in the Milky Way
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13539

January 26, 2021 updates

Was the Wow! Signal Due to Power Beaming Leakage?
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/01/22/was-the-wow-signal-due-to-power-beaming-leakage/

Analytic Estimates of the Achievable Precision on the Physical Properties of Transiting Planets Using Purely Empirical Measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09289

The TESS-Keck Survey IV: A Retrograde, Polar Orbit for the Ultra-Low-Density, Hot Super-Neptune WASP-107b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09371

Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10830 Angstroms in the atmospheres of HD 189733 b and GJ 3470 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09393

Jupiter as an Exoplanet: Insights from Cassini Phase Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09984

On a new formulation for energy transfer between convection and fast tides with application to giant planets and solar type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10047

January 25, 2021 updates

Keeping the Dream Alive: Is Propellant-less Propulsion Possible?
https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/keeping-the-dream-alive-is-propellant-less-propulsion-possible

Detectability of Rocky-Vapour atmospheres on super-Earths with Ariel
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09693-6

TOI-954 b and K2-329 b: Short-period Saturn-mass Planets that Test whether Irradiation Leads to Inflation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abd187

A decade of radial-velocity monitoring of Vega and new limits on the presence of planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08801

Nigraha: Machine-learning based pipeline to identify and evaluate planet candidates from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09227

Six transiting planets and a chain of Laplace resonances in TOI-178
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.09260