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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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

September 25, 2020 updates

Revised instellation patterns for close-in exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2867/5909055

Integrating Light Curve and Atmospheric Modeling of Transiting Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abaabc

Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344371776_Two_Planets_Straddling_the_Habitable_Zone_of_The_Nearby_K_dwarf_Gl_414A

On the Temperature Profiles and Emission Spectra of Mini-Neptune Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11290

The CHEOPS mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11633

Stability Constrained Characterization of Multiplanet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11831

September 24, 2020 updates

Search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter τ Boo b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38412-20/aa38412-20.html

The Biological Universe: Life in the Milky Way and Beyond
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/biological-universe/4599E17C7FAAECE4A87038C62039C755

The Origin of Systems of Tightly Packed Inner Planets with Misaligned, Ultra-Short-Period Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10745

TESS Observations of the Hot Jupiter Exoplanet XO-6b: No Evidence of Transit Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10781

Launching the VASCO citizen science project
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.10813