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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October 2, 2020 updates

CHESS: An innovative concept for high-resolution, far-UV spectroscopy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09670-z

Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pictoris c
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa39039-20/aa39039-20.html

Unveiling the β Pictoris system, coupling high contrast imaging, interferometric, and radial velocity data
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa38823-20/aa38823-20.html

Obliquity measurement and atmospheric characterisation of the WASP-74 planetary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38703-20/aa38703-20.html

A High-Cadence UV-Optical Telescope Suite On The Lunar South Pole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00007

Beyond Equilibrium Temperature: How the Atmosphere/Interior Connection Affects the Onset of Methane, Ammonia, and Clouds in Warm Transiting Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00146

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Three temperate to warm super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00474

October 1, 2020 updates

Search for New Worlds at Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol Project
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/search-for-new-worlds-at-home-with-nasa-s-planet-patrol-project

A precise architecture characterization of the π Mensae planetary system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38416-20/aa38416-20.html

Search for Nearby Earth Analogs .III. Detection of 10 New Planets, 3 Planet Candidates, and Confirmation of 3 Planets around 11 Nearby M Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/abb139

The TESS-Keck Survey. III. A Stellar Obliquity Measurement of TOI-1726 c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb3bd

How Does Background Air Pressure Influence the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone for Tidally Locked Planets in a 3D View?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb87f

VIBES: VIsual Binary Exoplanet survey with SPHERE Upper limits on wide S-planet and S-BD frequencies, triple system discovery, and astrometric confirmation of 20 stellar binaries and three triple systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14528

Effect of mantle oxidation state and escape upon the evolution of Earth’s magma ocean atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14599

Application of Orbital Stability and Tidal Migration Constraints for Exomoon Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14723

September 30, 2020 updates

TOI 540 b: A Planet Smaller than Earth Orbiting a Nearby Rapidly Rotating Low-mass Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13623

The Phase-curve Signature of Condensible Water-rich Atmospheres on Slowly Rotating Tidally Locked Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13638

Maintaining the Ephemeris of 20 CoRoT Planets: Transit Minimum Times and Potential Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14132

Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia: 9 planet candidates in the brown-dwarf/stellar regime and 27 confirmed planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.14164

The Sun Diver: Combining solar sails with the Oberth effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12659

September 29, 2020 updates

Effects of Flux Variation on the Surface Temperatures of Earth-analog Circumbinary Planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2980/5912456

A terrestrial-mass rogue planet candidate detected in the shortest-timescale microlensing event
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12377

How Does Thermal Scattering Shape the Infrared Spectra of Cloudy Exoplanets? A Theoretical Framework and Consequences for Atmospheric Retrievals in the JWST era
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12411

Detection of the Occultation of 55 Cancri e with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12601

Lunar Opportunities for SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12689

An Ultra-Hot Neptune in the Neptune desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12832

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) VI. Non-detection of sodium with HARPS on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-127b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13386

The hot dayside and asymmetric transit of WASP-189b seen by CHEOPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13403

A Titan mission using the Direct Fusion Drive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12621

September 28, 2020 updates

The hot dayside and asymmetric transit of WASP-189 b seen by CHEOPS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa38677-20.pdf

The path to instability in compact multi-planetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38764-20/aa38764-20.html

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME). III. A Two-planet System in the 400 Myr Ursa Major Group
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abae64

Constraints on the abundance of 0.01c stellar engines in the Milky Way
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08874

The HD 217107 Planetary System: Twenty Years of Radial Velocity Measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12356