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 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

July 21, 2020 updates

Astrobiology and Cuatro Ciénegas Basin as an Analog of Early Earth
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-46087-7

Directed Panspermia: Synthetic DNA in bioforming planets
https://researchoutreach.org/articles/directed-panspermia-synthetic-dna-bioforming-planets/

A torus-shaped solar sail accelerated via thermal desorption of coating
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117720304750

Exocomets from a Solar System Perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09155

Exoplanets in our Backyard: A report from an interdisciplinary community workshop and a call to combined action
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09231

Detecting Exoplanets Using Eclipsing Binaries as Natural Starshades
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09623

Estimating survival probability using the terrestrial extinction history for the search for extraterrestrial life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09904

The search for disks or planetary objects around directly imaged companions: A candidate around DH Tau B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10097

A Super-Earth Orbiting an Extremely Inactive Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10262

July 20, 2020 updates

Magnetic levitational bioassembly of 3D tissue construct in space
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/29/eaba4174

NGTS-11 b (TOI-1847 b): A Transiting Warm Saturn Recovered from a TESS Single-transit Event
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9eb9

A significant mutual inclination between the planets within the π Mensae system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08549

Exogeoscience and Its Role in Characterizing Exoplanet Habitability and the Detectability of Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08665

The influence of bulk composition on long-term interior-atmosphere evolution of terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09021

July 17, 2020 updates

NASA delays JWST launch by seven months
https://spacenews.com/nasa-delays-jwst-launch-by-seven-months/

Exoplanet Transients: Possible Variations in the Limb-Darkening Coefficients of Eclipsed Stars at Short Time Intervals
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920080016

New Photometric Analysis of Hot Jupiter: WASP-135b
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620300506

K2-280b — a low density warm sub-Saturn around a mildly evolved star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07939

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