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 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

September 21, 2021 updates

GW Ori: circumtriple rings and planets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2624/6371904?

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. II. Discovery of a Failed Hot Jupiter on a 2.7 Yr, Highly Eccentric Orbit
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac134b

Analyzing the Habitable Zones of Circumbinary Planets Using Machine Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08735

A Uniform Search for Nearby Planetary Companions to Hot Jupiters in TESS Data Reveals Hot Jupiters are Still Lonely
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08790

Panspermia in a Milky Way-like Galaxy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08926

TOI-1296b and TOI-1298b observed with TESS and SOPHIE: Two hot Saturn-mass exoplanets with different densities around metal-rich stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09252

Tidal migration of hot Jupiters. Introducing the impact of gravity wave dissipation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09257

TOI-1201 b: A mini-Neptune transiting a bright and moderately young M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09346

Two circumbinary planets in RR Cae eclipsing binary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09397

September 20, 2021 updates

Design of a Spacecraft Prototype for Interstellar Journey Using Existing Methods of Propulsion
https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/351148

The Problem of Micrometeorite Impacts in Relativistic Interstellar Journeys
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354374725_THE_PROBLEM_OF_MICROMETEORITE_IMPACTS_IN_RELATIVISTIC_INTERSTELLAR_JOURNEYS_An_evaluation_of_a_great_problem_to_reach_the_stars_The_High_SpeedHigh_Kinetic_Energy_micrometeorite_impacts_on_Route_repres

Radius and Mass Distribution of Ultra-short-period Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac0bb8

Early Habitability and Crustal Decarbonation of a Stagnant-Lid Venus
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JE006895

Nonlinear simulations of tides in the convective envelopes of low-mass stars and giant gaseous planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08562

Exploring Deep, Hot, Adiabats as a Potential Solution to the Radius Inflation Problem in Brown Dwarfs: Long Timescale Models of the Deep Atmospheres of KELT-1b, Kepler-13Ab, and SDSS1411B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08609

Stellar Gravitational Lens Engineering for Interstellar Communication and Artifact SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08657

September 16, 2021 updates

SETI as a Central Project: An Addendum to Space Development Futures
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/09/10/seti-as-a-central-project-an-addendum-to-space-development-futures/

Exosphere Modeling of Proxima b: A Case Study of Photochemical Escape with a Venus-like Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.06963

Three faint-source microlensing planets detected via resonant-caustic channel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.07068

Multi-scale photonic emissivity engineering for relativistic lightsail thermal regulation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03558