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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July 1, 2020 updates

Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00703-9

A multiple planet system of super-Earths orbiting the brightest red dwarf star GJ887
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16372

Analysis of Close Stellar Encounters with the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16555

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Convective shift and starspot constraints from chromatic radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16608

Dyson Spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16734

Dust Populations in the Iconic Vega Planetary System Resolved by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16257

Scaling K2. III. Comparable Planet Occurrence in the FGK Samples of Campaign 5 and Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16261

June 29, 2020 updates

Obliquity of an Earth-like planet from frequency modulation of its direct imaged lightcurve: mock analysis from general circulation model simulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11437

Probing Transit Timing Variation and Its Possible Origin with 12 New Transits of TrES-3b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9818

Evryscope and K2 Constraints on TRAPPIST-1 Superflare Occurrence and Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14712

The path to instability in multi-planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14903

June 26, 2020 updates

A multiplanet system of super-Earths orbiting the brightest red dwarf star GJ 887
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1477

Dynamical Packing in the Habitable Zone: The Case of Beta CVn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13962

ARES III: Unveiling the Two Faces of KELT-7 b with HST WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14199

The GAPS Programme at TNG — XXIV. An eccentric Neptune-mass planet near the inner edge of the BD-11 4672 habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14393

Experimental validation of coronagraphic focal-plane wavefront sensing for future segmented space telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14494

Near Mean Motion Resonance of Terrestrial Planet Pair Induced by Giant Planet: Application to Kepler-68 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14506

TOI-1728b: The Habitable-zone Planet Finder confirms a warm super Neptune orbiting an M dwarf host
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14546

In situ exo-planet transit lightcurve modelling with the Chroma+ suite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14586

June 25, 2020 updates

NASA expects to cover JWST launch slip with budget reserves
https://spacenews.com/nasa-expects-to-cover-jwst-launch-slip-with-budget-reserves/

Alien Civilization Calculator
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/alien-civilization

Large H2O solubility in dense silica and its implications for the interiors of water-rich planets
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/18/9747

Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross Sections
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9363

Analysis of HAT-P-23 b, Qatar-1 b, WASP-2 b, and WASP-33 b with an Optimized EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13324

Atmospheric Regimes and Trends on Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13384

EarthFinder Probe Mission Concept Study: Characterizing nearby stellar exoplanet systems with Earth-mass analogs for future direct imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13428

Breakthrough Listen Search for Technosignatures Towards the Kepler-160 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13789

TRAPPIST-1: Global Results of the Spitzer Exploration Science Program {\it Red Worlds}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13826