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 13, 2021 updates

Auto-correlation functions of astrophysical processes, and their relation to Gaussian processes – Application to radial velocities of different starspot configurations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/01/aa39594-20/aa39594-20.html

Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: global and equatorial dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04417

Super-Earths, M Dwarfs, and Photosynthetic Organisms: Habitability in the Lab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04448

The complex interplay between tidal inertial waves and zonal flows in differentially rotating stellar and planetary convective regions I. Free waves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04656

The Copernican Principle Rules Out BLC1 as a Technological Radio Signal from the Alpha Centauri System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04118

The role of atmospheric outflows in the migration of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04112

A Bayesian neural network predicts the dissolution of compact planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04117

Characterizing Atmospheres of Transiting Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting M Dwarfs with James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04139

NGTS-13b: A hot 4.8 Jupiter-mass planet transiting a subgiant star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04245

January 12, 2021 updates

Heterogeneous Physical Chemistry in the Atmospheres of Earth, Mars, and Venus: Perspectives for Rocky Exoplanets
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00126

The Future Fusion of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Big Histories
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746700.2020.1869674

A Tale of Planetary Resurrection
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/a-tale-of-planetary-resurrection

A survey of the linear polarization of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarf companions with SPHERE-IRDIS. First polarimetric detections revealing disks around DH Tau B and GSC 6214-210 B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04033

The atmosphere of HD 209458b seen with ESPRESSO. No detectable planetary absorptions at high resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04094

Searching for Small Circumbinary Planets I. The STANLEY Automated Algorithm and No New Planets in Existing Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03186

The Stars Kepler Missed: Investigating the Kepler Target Selection Function Using Gaia DR2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03190

Impact of a moon on the evolution of a planet’s obliquity: a non-resonant case
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.03429

January 11, 2021 updates

Intelligent messages in bacterial DNA – a sequel to SETI?
http://physics.ruh.ac.lk/ab/pub/446.pdf

Global Optimization Based Reference Star Differential Imaging for High-contrast Exoplanet Imaging Survey
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab022/6070633

TOI-1259Ab — a gas giant planet with 2.7% deep transits and a bound white dwarf companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02707

Activity of the first interstellar comet 2I/Borisov around perihelion: Results from Indian observatories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02752

Atmosphere escape inferred from modelling the Hα transmission spectrum of WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02905

The polarization-encoded self-coherent camera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02954

Inner and Outer Orbits in 13 Resolved Hierarchical Stellar Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02976

January 7, 2021 updates

TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full Frame Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01726

HELIOS-K 2.0 Opacity Calculator and Open-source Opacity Database for Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02005

Pollux: A weak dynamo-driven dipolar magnetic field and implications for its probable planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02016

BEAST begins: Sample characteristics and survey performance of the B-star Exoplanet Abundance Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02043