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 5, 2020 updates

An Astrometric Planetary Companion Candidate to the M9 Dwarf TVLM 513–46546
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01595

Primordial Radius Gap and Potentially Broad Core Mass Distributions of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01105

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — A deep learning approach to determine fundamental parameters of target stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01186

A dayside thermal inversion in the atmosphere of WASP-19b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01288

The Habitability of the Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01419

August 4, 2020 updates

Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for relativistic lightsail propulsion
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00768

Low-albedo Surfaces of Lava Worlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9cba

Detection of Fe i Emission in the Dayside Spectrum of WASP-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba4b6

LRG-BEASTS: Ground-based Detection of Sodium and a Steep Optical Slope in the Atmosphere of the Highly Inflated Hot-Saturn WASP-21b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00971

Colour-magnitude diagrams of transiting Exoplanets — III. A public code, nine strange planets, and the role of Phosphine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00995

The dynamical evolution of close-in binary systems formed by a super-Earth and its host star. Case of the Kepler-21 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575

July 31, 2020 updates

Search for TiO and Optical Nightside Emission from the Exoplanet WASP-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e77

Physical Characterization of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9df8

Integrating Machine Learning for Planetary Science: Perspectives for the Next Decade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15129

A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15287

Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15363

LBT transmission spectroscopy of HAT-P-12b: confirmation of a cloudy atmosphere with no significant alkali features
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15485

Exoplanets Sciences with Nulling Interferometers and a Single-Mode Fiber-Fed Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15529

Colors of an Earth-like exoplanet — Temporal flux and polarization signals of the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15624

July 30, 2020 updates

PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e73

Analytic Stability Maps of Unknown Exoplanet Companions for Imaging Prioritization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9b21

Exploring the Atmospheric Dynamics of the Extreme Ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b Using TESS Photometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba2cb

Hurricane Genesis is Favorable on Terrestrial Exoplanets Orbiting Late-type M Dwarf Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aba0b9

Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Linear Dark Field Control For Imaging Extrasolar Planets in Reflected Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14413

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems: Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-Stable Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14473

A Volatile-Poor Formation of LHS 3844b based on its Lack of Significant Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14493