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 6, 2021 updates

Following up the Kepler field: Masses of Targets for transit timing and atmospheric characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01202

Starshade Rendezvous: Exoplanet Sensitivity and Observing Strategy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01272

Starshade Rendezvous: Exoplanet Orbit Constraints from Multi-Epoch Direct Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01276

Possible Atmospheric Diversity of Low Mass Exoplanets, some Central Aspects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01277

NGTS-14Ab: a Neptune-sized transiting planet in the desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01470

Masses and compositions of three small planets orbiting the nearby M dwarf L231-32 (TOI-270) and the M dwarf radius valley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01593

January 5, 2021 updates

The Biological Study of Lifeless Worlds and Environments
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2337

Challenges & Strategies for Supporting a Very Long Duration Mission
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0483

Interstellar Probe – Goals and Challenges
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0485

Needed Evolution in Part Reliability Approaches: from Voyager to Interstellar Probe
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-0486

An Optimal Navigation Filter for Relativistic Spacecraft
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-1868

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth
https://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrial-First-Intelligent-Beyond-Earth/dp/0358278147/

Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry I: WASP-69b, Dimensionality, XUV Flux Level, Spectral Types, and Flares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00042

Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-Consistent Photochemistry II: WASP-107b, Stellar Wind, Radiation Pressure, and Shear Instability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00045

The Hubble WFC3 Emission Spectrum of the Extremely-Hot Jupiter, KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00469

Polarized radiation and the Emergence of Biological Homochirality on Earth and Beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00530

CHEOPS observations of the HD\,108236 planetary system: A fifth planet, improved ephemerides, and planetary radii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00663