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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August 27, 2020 updates

Effects of Astrobiology Lectures on Knowledge and Attitudes about Science in Incarcerated Populations
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2209

Humanly traversable wormholes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618

The interstellar communication relay
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/interstellar-communication-relay/5539B6B1C914354FFB3E8F08399B03D8

Prospects for Characterizing the Haziest Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with High Resolution Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11299

Lithologic Controls on Silicate Weathering Regimes of Temperate Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11620

Fear the Shadows of the Giants: On Secular Perturbations in Circumstellar Habitable Zones of Double Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11651

August 26, 2020 updates

Observational Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of Neptune-Class Exoplanets
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00726-2

SPIRou: nIR velocimetry & spectropolarimetry at the CFHT
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2569/5897365

2D Retrieval Frameworks for Hot Jupiter Phase Curves
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba8f9

The Resilience of Habitable Climates Around Circumbinary Stars
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006576

Stability of Planetary Motion in Binary Star Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.11107

Improving Exoplanet Detection Power: Multivariate Gaussian Process Models for Stellar Activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01318

August 25, 2020 updates

Conceptual Interstellar Map and Status Panel Design
https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10559/

The Astrobiology of Alien Worlds: Known and Unknown Forms of Life
https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/6/9/130/htm

Exoplanet Validation with Machine Learning: 50 new validated Kepler planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2498/5894933

Influence of C/O Ratio on Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Chemistry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aba828

Haze Formation in Warm H2-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09700

A search for transiting planets around FGKM dwarfs and sub-giants in the TESS Full Frame Images of the Southern ecliptic hemisphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09832

The Impact of Tidal Disruption Events on Galactic Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09988

On the Orbital Spacing Pattern of Kepler Multiple Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10051

More planetary candidates from K2 Campaign 5 by tran_k2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10075

‘Oumuamua as a Cometary Fractal Aggregate: the “Dust Bunny” Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10083

August 24, 2020 updates

Dust content solutions for the Alcubierre warp drive spacetime
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06560

The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2244

Convective Differential Rotation in Stars and Planets I: Theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09125

Convective Differential Rotation in Stars and Planets II: Observational and Numerical Tests
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09126

Surface and oceanic habitability of Trappist-1 planets under the impact of flares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09147

Four Microlensing Planets with Faint-source Stars Identified in the 2016 and 2017 Season Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09258

The GAPS Programme at TNG XXVII. Reassessment of a young planetary system with HARPS-N: is the hot Jupiter V830 Tau b really there?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09445

Magma ocean evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09599