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 16, 2020 updates

EXPRES. I. HD 3651 as an Ideal RV Benchmark
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab99c9

Global Analysis of the TRAPPIST Ultra-Cool Dwarf Transit Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07278

GJ 3470 c: A Saturn-like Exoplanet Candidate in the Habitable Zone of GJ 3470
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07373

The origins of nearly coplanar, non-resonant systems of close-in super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07385

Role of the impact parameter in exoplanet transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07716

ExoTiC-ISM: A Python package for marginalised exoplanet transit parameters across a grid of systematic instrument models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07828

July 15, 2020 updates

A Rayleigh-Ritz-method-based approach to computing seismic normal modes in rotating terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11082

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06573

Hidden Worlds: Dynamical Architecture Predictions of Undetected Planets in Multi-planet Systems and Applications to TESS Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06745

KMT-2019-BLG-2073: Fourth Free-Floating-Planet Candidate with θE<10μas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06870

Stellar Oblateness versus Distant Giants in Exciting Kepler Planet Mutual Inclinations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06991

Will Gravitational Waves Discover the First Extra-Galactic Planetary System?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07010

A warm Jupiter transiting an M dwarf: A TESS single transit event confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07098

HATS-37Ab and HATS-38b: Two Transiting Hot Neptunes in the Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07135

July 14, 2020 updates

Interstellar Probe: The Next Step
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..22.6119M/abstract

Interstellar Probe: Pushing the Frontier of Space Science
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..2219605B/abstract

Optomechanics of a stable diffractive axicon light sail
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00542-1

On the survival of resonant and non-resonant planetary systems in star clusters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2047/5870702

Detectability of Thermal Emission from Sub-Relativistic Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04892

Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06521

HAT-P-58b — HAT-P-64b: Seven Planets Transiting Bright Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05528

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). I. Bern global model of planet formation and evolution, model tests, and emerging planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05561

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). II. Planetary population of solar-like stars and overview of statistical results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05562

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). III. Warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters: a weak occurrence correlation, but a strong architecture-composition link
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05563

A Fast, 2D Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05799

Search for helium in the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-127 b using Gemini/Phoenix
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06216

A precise architecture characterization of the π Men planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06410

The role of clouds on the depletion of methane and water dominance in the transmission spectra of irradiated exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06562

July 13, 2020 updates

Three short-period Jupiters from TESS – HIP 65Ab, TOI-157b, and TOI-169b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37941-20/aa37941-20.html

Original Research by Young Twinkle Students (Orbyts): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanets II
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aba42b

Evolution of the Earth’s polar outflow from mid‐Archean to present
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JA027837

Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilisations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03597

KMT-2018-BLG-0748Lb: Sub-Saturn Microlensing Planet Orbiting an Ultracool Host
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05204

Water transport throughout the TRAPPIST-1 system: the role of planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05366

Habitability Models for Planetary Sciences
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05491

Detection of Fe\,{\sc i} Emission in the Day-side Spectrum of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05508

The EBLM project. VII. Spin-orbit alignment for the circumbinary planet host EBLM J0608-59 A/TOI-1338 A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05514

The dichotomy of atmospheric escape in AU Mic b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13606

July 10, 2020 updates

The Law of Extraterrestrial Resources
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.225

Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part I – Crops for Food and Soil Production
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.198

Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part 2 – Ventilation for Heat and Water Transport and Management
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.210

Avalon’s Semi-Closed Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) Part 3 – Crops to Extend the Diet and Produce Wood Fiber and Chemicals
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.221

Atmospheric Erosion by Giant Impacts onto Terrestrial Planets: A Scaling Law for any Speed, Angle, Mass, and Density
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04321

How Jupiters save or destroy inner Neptunes around evolved stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04337

The Dynamic Proto-atmospheres around Low-Mass Planets with Eccentric Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04398