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 29, 2020 updates

When “Boring” Stars Flare: The Ultraviolet Activity of GJ 887, a Bright M Star Hosting Newly Discovered Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aba94a

Novel instellation calculations for close-in exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343201369_Novel_instellation_calculations_for_close-in_exoplanets

The Importance of Prioritizing Exoplanet Experimental Facilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13924

TESS Reveals a Short-period Sub-Neptune Sibling (HD 86226c) to a Known Long-period Giant Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13927

KELT-17: a chemically peculiar Am star and a hot-Jupiter planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14210

Demarcating circulation regimes of synchronously rotating terrestrial planets within the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00435

July 28, 2020 updates

Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12814

ZigZag: A Memory-Centric Rapid DNN Accelerator Design Space Exploration Framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11360

The Evolutionary Track of H/He Envelopes of the Observed Population of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9a4d

Non-detection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12968

Dynamical evolution of two-planet systems and its connection with white dwarf atmospheric pollution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13009

Bayesian Dynamic Mapping of an Exo-Earth from Photometric Variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13096

Observing transiting exoplanets with the MicroObservatory: 43 new transit light curves of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13381

Efficiency of tidal dissipation in slowly rotating fully convective stars or planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13392

Detection of Na in WASP-21b’s lower and upper atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13429

Unified simulations of planetary formation and atmospheric evolution II: Rapid disk clearing by photoevaporation yields low-mass super-Earth atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13717

EUV irradiation of exoplanet atmospheres occurs on Gyr timescales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13731

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time. XI. The Orbit and Radiation Environment of the Young M Dwarf-Hosted Planet K2-25b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12701

Planetary candidates transiting cool dwarf stars from Campaigns 12 to 15 of K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12744

The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12766

July 27, 2020 updates

Identifying Exoplanets Using Deep Learning and Predicting Their Likelihood of Habitability
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-5243-4_34

Alfnoor: A Retrieval Simulation of the Ariel Target List
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9a53

Limits on the orbits of possible exomoons around Kepler giant planets in the habitable zone
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319300182

Thermal and orbital evolution of low-mass exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12459

Exobodies in Our Back Yard: Science from Missions to Nearby Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12480

Habitability of M dwarfs is a problem for the traditional SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12645

July 23, 2020 updates

Comments on the contending hypotheses about the origin of life
https://web.ist.utl.pt/orfeu.bertolami/Comments_Origin_Life_2020.pdf

Possible Atmospheric Diversity of Low Mass Exoplanets – Some Central Aspects
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00716-4

Transits of Known Planets Orbiting a Naked-Eye Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10995

Effect of Sea-ice Drift on the Onset of Snowball Climate on Rapidly Rotating Aqua-planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11179

Constraining the oblateness of transiting planets with photometry and spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11221

Orbital period modulation in hot Jupiter systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11264

A New Method For Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres Using Planetary Infrared Excess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11438

Relaying Swarms of Low-Mass Interstellar Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11554

Orbital misalignment of the super-Earth π Men c with the spin of its star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11564

Solar One: A Proposal for The First Crewed Interstellar Spacecraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11474

July 22, 2020 updates

Formation of Planetary Populations III: Core Composition & Atmospheric Evaporation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2087/5874897

Two Directly Imaged, Wide-orbit Giant Planets around the Young, Solar Analog TYC 8998-760-1
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba27e

Analysis of Near 2:1 Mean-motion Resonance for Kepler-9b and c
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0275106220300345

The Case for an Early Solar Binary Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10339

Enabling Effective Exoplanet / Planetary Collaborative Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10549

The Interiors of Uranus and Neptune: Current Understanding and Open Questions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10783

Ultra-short-period Planets are Stable Against Tidal Inspiral
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10944