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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September 28, 2021 Updates

SCExAO/CHARIS Direct Imaging of A Low-Mass Companion At A Saturn-Like Separation from an Accelerating Young A7 Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12124

Detecting Biosignatures in the Atmospheres of Gas Dwarf Planets with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12132

How Complete Are Surveys for Nearby Transiting Hot Jupiters?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12376

Searching for orbital decay in a heartbeat star system KIC 3766353
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12466

Design of the vacuum high contrast imaging testbed for CDEEP, the Coronagraphic Debris and Exoplanet Exploring Pioneer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12718

Evidence for a Nondichotomous Solution to the Kepler Dichotomy: Mutual Inclinations of Kepler Planetary Systems from Transit Duration Variations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0f7a

Constraining Mornings and Evenings on Distant Worlds: A new Semianalytical Approach and Prospects with Transmission Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1538-3881

Constraints on Planets in Nearby Young Moving Groups Detectable by High-Contrast Imaging and Gaia Astrometry
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2769/6375798?redirectedFrom=fulltext

September 27, 2021 Updates

The 12CO/13CO isotopologue ratio of a young, isolated brown dwarf. Possibly distinct formation pathways of super-Jupiters and brown dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11569

Formation of polar terrestrial circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11653

Reflected spectroscopy of small exoplanets I: determining the atmospheric composition of sub-Neptunes planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11659

A General Origin for Multi-Planetary Systems With Significantly Misaligned USP Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.12054

Thinking ET: A discussion of exopsychology
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576521005208

September 24, 2021 Updates

A Snowball in Hell: The Potential Steam Atmosphere of TOI-1266c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10838

Charting nearby stellar systems: The intensity of Galactic cosmic rays for a sample of solar-type stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10831

The mass of Beta Pictoris c from Beta Pictoris b orbital motion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10671

Precise Masses and Orbits for Nine Radial Velocity Exoplanets
Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/2109.10422

The Population of Interstellar Objects Detectable with the LSST and Accessible for In Situ Rendezvous with Various Mission Designs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10406

A molecular wind blows out of the Kuiper belt
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/09/aa41783-21/aa41783-21.html

The Solar System as an Exosystem: Planet Confusion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac20cf

Two Bright M Dwarfs Hosting Ultra-Short-Period Super-Earths with Earth-like Compositions*
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0fdc

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search. I. OGLE-2019-BLG-1053Lb, a Buried Terrestrial Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac12d4

The dynamics of the TRAPPIST-1 system in the context of its formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10984

On the Fate of Interstellar Objects Captured by our Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11017

Evidence for stellar contamination in the transmission spectra of HAT-P-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11235

Critical Analysis of TESS Transit Photometric Data: Improved Physical Properties for Five Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11366

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part I: Dry Cases — The fellowship of the GCMs
Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/2109.11457

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part II: Moist Cases — The Two Waterworlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11459

The TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Part III: Simulated Observables — The return of the spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11460

The IRG Staff

September 23, 2021 Updates

Solar Neighborhood Exoplanet Host Stars within a Galactic Context
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac283d

On the Demographics of Exoplanet Host Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac2893

Polarization Measurements of Selected Young Stars with Circumstellar Dusty Disks
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac2822

Masses for free-floating planets and dwarf planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1674-4527/21/6/133

Two Bright M Dwarfs Hosting Ultra-Short-Period Super-Earths with Earth-like Compositions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0fdc

Radial-velocity Precision of ESPRESSO Through the Analysis of the Solar Twin HIP 11915
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1bb5

Intelligent responses to our technological signals will not arrive in fewer than three millennia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521004744

September 22, 2021 updates

Identifying Potential Exomoon Signals with Convolutional Neural Networks
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2694/6373454

Spitzer Phase-curve Observations and Circulation Models of the Inflated Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-76b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0e30

Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119711186

A New Type of Exoplanet Direct Imaging Search: The SCExAO/CHARIS Survey of Accelerating Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09745