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 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

December 11, 2020 updates

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – LP 714-47 b (TOI 442.01): populating the Neptune desert
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/12/aa38016-20/aa38016-20.html

Detection of pre-industrial societies on exoplanets
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/detection-of-preindustrial-societies-on-exoplanets/2F1C14870F756707F4808D2045AAA80C

Speckle Imaging Characterization of Radial Velocity Exoplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05253

Magnetic field and chromospheric activity evolution of HD75332: a rapid magnetic cycle in an F star without a hot Jupiter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05407

Combining Transit and RV: A Synthesized Population Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05423

Image recovery with the solar gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05477

Three-body capture, ejection, and the demographics of bound objects in binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05875

December 10, 2020 updates

Philosophical Thoughts on the Issue of a Potential Future Contact with an Extraterrestrial Civilization
https://www.academia.edu/35988452/PHILOSOPHICAL_THOUGHTS_ON_THE_ISSUE_OF_A_POTENTIAL_FUTURE_CONTACT_WITH_AN_EXTRATERRESTRIAL_CIVILIZATION

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. I. Confirmation of an Eccentric, Cool Jupiter With an Interior Earth-sized Planet Orbiting Kepler-1514
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04676

Spectroscopic fourth-order coronagraph for the characterization of terrestrial planets at small angular separations from host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04779

Revisiting the HD 21749 Planetary System with Stellar Activity Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04873

Improving the RSM map exoplanet detection algorithm: PSF forward modelling and optimal selection of PSF subtraction techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05094

December 9, 2020 updates

Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL) for Biosignatures, SETI, and Interstellar Telecommunications
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/Dz8IKzYNKrRMnO_WztA6eXetafaiGUhcYQnjw95uI5Gebl3S8kdeNzvXD4NDh5vwXH-8_mWYfOQtdFcF.7lemH6kqbXMgtx0C

A Flare-type IV Burst Event from Proxima Centauri and Implications for Space Weather
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abca90

ARES IV: Probing the Atmospheres of the Two Warm Small Planets HD 106315c and HD 3167c with the HST/WFC3 Camera
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc3c8

Characterization of a multi-etalon array for ultra-high resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04007

Detecting and characterizing close-in exoplanets with Vortex Fiber Nulling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04239

Planet cartography with neural learned regularization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04460