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 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

August 21, 2020 updates

Design and analysis of a growable artificial gravity space habitat
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1270963820308294

A disk-driven resonance as the origin of high inclinations of close-in planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08587

Stable Partial Ice Cover Possible for Any Obliquity: Effects of Obliquity, Albedo, and Heat Transport on Ice Cover Dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08671

Isotopically distinct terrestrial planets via local accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08850

August 19, 2020 updates

Evaluating Biosignatures for Life Detection
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2151

TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2509/5894404

Stability of planetary, single M dwarf, and binary star companions to Kepler detached eclipsing binaries and a possible five body system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07731

Constraining the Bulk Composition of Disintegrating Exoplanets Using Combined Transmission Spectra from JWST and SPICA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07781

Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. III. Detection of ten new planets, three planet candidates, and confirmation of three planets around eleven nearby M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07998

August 17, 2020 updates

Curvature Invariants for the Accelerating Natario Warp Drive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03366

Passive shielding of space radiation for human exploration missions – Simulations and Radiation Tests
https://iris.polito.it/handle/11583/2711122?mode=full.8023

The Multiplanet System TOI-421
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba124

From the LIPS of a serial killer: Endogenic retardation of biological evolution on unstable stagnant-lid planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320302816

Interstellar Now! Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343678500_Interstellar_Now_Missions_to_and_Sample_Returns_from_Nearby_Interstellar_Objects