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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November 9, 2021 updates

Warp drive dynamic solutions considering different fluid sources
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01298

Gravity beyond Einstein? Part III: numbers and coupling constants, contradictory experiments, hypercomplex gravity like-fields, propellantless space propulsion
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zna-2021-0147/html

Bacterial Growth in Brines Formed by the Deliquescence of Salts Relevant to Cold Arid Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2336

Thermal Phase Curves of XO-3b: an Eccentric Hot Jupiter at the Deuterium Burning Limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03673

An Edge-On Orbit for the Eccentric Long-Period Planet HR 5183 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03676

OGLE-2019-BLG-0468Lb,c: two microlensing giant planets around a G-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03755

Signal preservation of exomoon transits during light curve folding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04444

HOW TO (DIS-)ASSEMBLE A PLANETARY SYSTEM (by turning a video game into an educational game)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04528

The impact of coronal mass ejections and flares on the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HD189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04531

Tidal evolution and diffusive growth during high-eccentricity planet migration: revisiting the eccentricity distribution of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04649

November 8, 2021 Updates

Tidal Response and Shape of Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1a72

CI Tau: A Controlled Experiment in Disk–Planet Interaction
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac32df

A Mid-Infrared Study of Directly-Imaged Planetary-Mass Companions using Archival Spitzer/IRAC Images
Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/2111.03087

Narrow belt of debris around the Sco-Cen star HD 141011
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03335

Investigation of an orbital decay and global modeling of the planet WASP-43 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03346

Second-generation dust in planetary systems: The case of HD 163296
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03530

Tardigrades could survive interstellar space travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407921019679

The mass budget necessary to explain ‘Oumuamua as a nitrogen iceberg
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107621001445

November 5, 2021 updates

Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/26141/pathways-to-discovery-in-astronomy-and-astrophysics-for-the-2020s

To Find Life on Other Planets, NASA Rocket Team Looks to the Stars
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/to-find-life-on-other-planets-nasa-rocket-team-looks-to-the-stars

An Examination Of The Fermi Paradox By Modelling The Use Of Self-Replicating Probes
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/an-examination-of-the-fermi-paradox-by-modelling-the-use-of-self-replicating-probes/

Could The Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua Be A Solar Thermal Propulsion Vehicle
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/could-the-interstellar-object-oumuamua-be-a-solar-thermal-propulsion-vehicle/

SETI And Evolutionary Population Dynamics
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/seti-and-evolutionary-population-dynamics/

The Impact Of Natural Selection On Crew Size And Human Evolution During Interstellar Travel
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/the-impact-of-natural-selection-on-crew-size-and-human-evolution-during-interstellar-travel/

TOI-712: a system of adolescent mini-Neptunes extending to the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02416

Time-Resolved Photometry of the High-Energy Radiation of M Dwarfs with the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02443

K2-79b and K2-222b: Mass measurements of two small exoplanets with periods beyond 10 days that overlap with periodic magnetic activity signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02608

Exploring the Effects of Active Magnetic Drag in a GCM of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13371

November 4, 2021 updates

Fast interstellar space travel by reduced mass via 5D Electromagnetism
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-4002

Extreme solar sailing for fast transit exploration of solar system and interstellar medium
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-4227

Contemplating Relativistic and Warp Speeds: Feasible Matter/Anti-Matter Propulsion and the Novel Theoretical Possibility of Attaining Warp Speeds
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-4111

Three faint-source microlensing planets detected via the resonant-caustic channel
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/11/aa41517-21/aa41517-21.html

GPU-enabled searches for periodic signals of unknown shape
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133721000652

On Tides and Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01984

Orbital Dynamics and the Evolution of Planetary Habitability in the AU Mic System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01816

Photometric Search for Exomoons by using Convolutional Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02293

November 3, 2021 updates

Polluted white dwarfs reveal exotic mantle rock types on exoplanets in our solar neighborhood
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26403-8

Confirmation of Iron Emission Lines and Nondetection of TiO on the Dayside of KELT-9b with MAROON-X
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac30e1

A Search for Analogs of KIC 8462852 (Boyajian’s Star): A Second List of Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01208

The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b has a Polar Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01295

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Diagnostic capabilities of strong K I lines for photosphere and chromosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01552

TOI-2257 b: A highly eccentric long-period sub-Neptune transiting a nearby M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01749

The Influence of 10 Unique Chemical Elements in Shaping the Distribution of Kepler Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01753