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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December 18, 2020 updates

Understanding the Impacts of Stellar Companions on Planet Formation and Evolution: A Survey of Stellar and Planetary Companions within 25 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09190

The Influence of Age on the Relative Frequency of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09239

On the Scaling and Spacing of Extra-Solar Multi-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09431

The Tierras Observatory: An ultra-precise photometer to characterize nearby terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09744

December 17, 2020 updates

JPL Work on a Gravitational Lensing Mission
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/16/jpl-work-on-a-gravitational-lensing-mission/

Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets – Potential approximation of a multi-layer planet as a homogeneous body
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38204-20/aa38204-20.html

The Planet as Exoplanet Analog Spectrograph (PEAS): Design and First-Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08675

Revisiting KELT-19Ab, WASP-156b and WASP-121b in the TESS Era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08744

Non-Sinusoidal Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet HAT-P-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08820

Update on the Preliminary Design of SCALES: the Santa Cruz Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09098

December 16, 2020 updates

K2 Targets Observed in TESS Cycles 1–3
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abd39e

A Statistical Estimation of the Occurrence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the Milky Way Galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07902

The search for radio emission from the exoplanetary systems 55 Cancri, υ Andromedae, and τ Boötis using LOFAR beam-formed observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07926

A Guide to Realistic Uncertainties on Fundamental Properties of Solar-Type Exoplanet Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07957

Effects of Spin-Orbit Resonances and Tidal Heating on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07996

RISTRETTO: a pathfinder instrument for exoplanet atmosphere characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08182

Are There Transit Timing Variations for the Exoplanet Qatar-1b ?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08184

Estimating low-order aberrations through a Lyot coronagraph with a Zernike wavefront sensor for exoplanet imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.08423

The TESS-Keck Survey II: An Ultra-Short Period Rocky Planet and its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03071

December 15, 2020 updates

Gravitational Lensing and Optical Geometry: A Centennial Perspective
https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3200

Bridge To The Stars: A Mission Concept And Policy To Enable An Inner Solar System Encounter With An Interstellar Object
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EPSC…14..575L/abstract

Radio observations of HD 80606 near planetary periastron – II. LOFAR low band antenna observations at 30–78 MHz
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38746-20/aa38746-20.html

Formation of Ultra-short-period Planets by Obliquity-driven Tidal Runaway
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc4e5

Lava Worlds: From Early Earth to Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07337

Exoplanets through extreme optics: from PLATO to SHARK-NIR
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06672

DiskFM: A Forward Modeling Tool for Disk Analysis with Coronagraphic Instruments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06790

Optimizing MARVEL for the radial velocity follow-up of TESS and PLATO transiting exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07137

ExoClock Project: An open platform for monitoring the ephemerides of Ariel targets with contributions from the public
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07478

Experimental analysis of the achromatic performance of a vector vortex coronagraph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07728

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December 14, 2020 updates

Anomalous Sun Flyby of 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua)
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/8/4/83

On the scaling and spacing of extra-solar multi-planet systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-020-03899-y

Hibernating lemurs may be the key to cryogenic sleep for human space travel
https://theconversation.com/hibernating-lemurs-may-be-the-key-to-cryogenic-sleep-for-human-space-travel-148408

Bridge to the stars: A mission concept to an interstellar object
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320303500

Stellar Winds Drive Strong Variations in Exoplanet Evaporative Outflows and Transit Absorption Signatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05922

Internal Water Storage Capacity of terrestrial Planets and the Effect of Hydration on the M-R Relation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06455