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 TVIW-updates mailing list and receive these updates in you email every weekday, please send that information to info@tviw.us. September 15, 2020 updates Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability – Chapter 13: Analytical astrobiology: the search for life signatures and the remote detection of biomarkers through their Raman spectral interrogation https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extreme-Environments-Biological-Capability-ebook/dp/B08GG9S318/ Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe – Chapter 12: On the Temporal Habitability of Our Universe https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Tuning-Physical-Universe-David-Sloan-ebook/dp/B08GG9RHHG/ Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4 A search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter tau Boo b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05821 Discriminating between hazy and clear hot-Jupiter atmospheres with CARMENES https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06280 The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06474 Phosphine on Venus Cannot be Explained by Conventional Processes https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06499 Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06503 September 14, 2020 updates Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system – Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38187-20/aa38187-20.html An ATA Search for a Repetition of the Wow Signal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba58f A Search for Rotation Periods in 1000 TESS Objects of Interest https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aba73f What limits photosynthesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the terrestrial biosphere within the Earth system https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005272820301535 The impact of life on climate stabilisation over different timescales https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GC009105 Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: a testbed for cold terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05467 September 11, 2020 updates Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star? https://osf.io/j6gux/ Precision radial velocity measurements by the forward-modeling technique in the near-infrared https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psaa085/5903842 A Search for FeH in Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres with High-Dispersion Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04474 Coupling thermal evolution of planets and hydrodynamic atmospheric escape in MESA https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04948 Septermber 10, 2020 updates Peas in a Pod? Radius Correlations in Kepler Multiplanet Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab9e Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline. IV. Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate Catalog https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab0b Eclipse timing variation of GK Vir: evidence of a possible Jupiter-like planet in a circumbinary orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03978 On the Possible Evolutionay History of the Water Ocean on Venus https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04040 Evidence of Three Mechanisms Explaining the Radius Anomaly of Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04291 Stellar Flares versus Luminosity: XUV-induced Atmospheric Escape and Planetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04310 A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04317 September 9, 2020 updates Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Generating Exoplanet Obliquities from Planet-Disk Interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14380 Physical Parameters of the Multi-Planet Systems HD 106315 and GJ 9827 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03398 ← Previous 1 2 3 … 134 Next →
September 15, 2020 updates Life in Extreme Environments: Insights in Biological Capability – Chapter 13: Analytical astrobiology: the search for life signatures and the remote detection of biomarkers through their Raman spectral interrogation https://www.amazon.com/Life-Extreme-Environments-Biological-Capability-ebook/dp/B08GG9S318/ Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe – Chapter 12: On the Temporal Habitability of Our Universe https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Tuning-Physical-Universe-David-Sloan-ebook/dp/B08GG9RHHG/ Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4 A search for He I airglow emission from the hot Jupiter tau Boo b https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05821 Discriminating between hazy and clear hot-Jupiter atmospheres with CARMENES https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06280 The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06474 Phosphine on Venus Cannot be Explained by Conventional Processes https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06499 Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of The Nearby K dwarf Gl 414A https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06503
September 14, 2020 updates Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system – Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38187-20/aa38187-20.html An ATA Search for a Repetition of the Wow Signal https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba58f A Search for Rotation Periods in 1000 TESS Objects of Interest https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aba73f What limits photosynthesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the terrestrial biosphere within the Earth system https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005272820301535 The impact of life on climate stabilisation over different timescales https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GC009105 Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: a testbed for cold terrestrial exoplanets https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05467
September 11, 2020 updates Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star? https://osf.io/j6gux/ Precision radial velocity measurements by the forward-modeling technique in the near-infrared https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psaa085/5903842 A Search for FeH in Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres with High-Dispersion Spectroscopy https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04474 Coupling thermal evolution of planets and hydrodynamic atmospheric escape in MESA https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04948
Septermber 10, 2020 updates Peas in a Pod? Radius Correlations in Kepler Multiplanet Systems https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab9e Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline. IV. Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate Catalog https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab0b Eclipse timing variation of GK Vir: evidence of a possible Jupiter-like planet in a circumbinary orbit https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03978 On the Possible Evolutionay History of the Water Ocean on Venus https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04040 Evidence of Three Mechanisms Explaining the Radius Anomaly of Hot Jupiters https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04291 Stellar Flares versus Luminosity: XUV-induced Atmospheric Escape and Planetary Habitability https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04310 A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04317
September 9, 2020 updates Dynamics of Colombo’s Top: Generating Exoplanet Obliquities from Planet-Disk Interactions https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14380 Physical Parameters of the Multi-Planet Systems HD 106315 and GJ 9827 https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03398
