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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October 19, 2021 updates

OGLE-2019-BLG-0304: Competing Interpretations between a Planet–binary Model and a Binary-source + Binary-lens Model
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1c09

HD207897 b: A dense sub-Neptune transiting a nearby and bright K-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08597

SOLES II: The Aligned Orbit of WASP-148b, the Only Known Hot Jupiter with a Nearby Warm Jupiter Companion, from NEID and HIRES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08832

Towards multi-dimensional analysis of transmission spectroscopy. Part II: Day-night induced biases in retrievals from hot to ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09080

Constraining stellar rotation and planetary atmospheric evolution of a dozen systems hosting sub-Neptunes and super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09106

Orbital obliquity sampling in the Kepler-20 system using the 3D animation software Blender
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09268

The key impact of the host star’s rotational history on the evolution of TOI-849b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09364

October 18,2021 updates

How Flat Can a Planetary System Get? I. The Case of TRAPPIST-1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abf8a8

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets – XLVI. 12 super-Earths around the solar type stars HD 39194, HD 93385, HD 96700, HD 154088, and HD 189567
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/10/aa41351-21/aa41351-21.html

Interstellar space biology via Project Starlight
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521005518

The impact of photospheric brightness field on exoplanetary transit timings and the TTV excess of HD 189733 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07901

Retention of water in terrestrial magma oceans and carbon-rich early atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08029

Characterizing the Galactic and Extragalactic Background Near Exoplanet Direct Imaging Targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.08097

The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07783

October 15, 2021 updates

Old Neighbors, New Neighbors: Terrestrial Nonhuman Persons and SETI
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746700.2021.1982253

Planet Formation and Panspermia: New Prospects for the Movement of Life through Space
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119640912

Phosphorus in the Clouds of Venus: Potential for Bioavailability
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2267

A compositional link between rocky exoplanets and their host stars
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg8794

October 13, 2021 updates

Sensitivity to habitable planets in the Roman microlensing survey
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2942/6395327

Another super-dense sub-Neptune in K2-182 b and refined mass measurements for K2-199 b and c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05502

Modeling the high-resolution emission spectra of clear and cloudy non-transiting hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05593

The TESS-Keck Survey. VI. Two Eccentric sub-Neptunes Orbiting HIP-97166
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05628

A New Sedimentation Model for Greater Cloud Diversity in Giant Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05903

Application of the Shannon entropy in the planar (non-restricted) four-body problem: the long-term stability of the Kepler-60 exoplanetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05971

Thermal runaway of silicon-based laser sails
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06185