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. November 23, 2020 updates The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149 Spectropolarimetry of Primitive Phototrophs as Global Surface Biosignatures https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2272 Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013825 Correcting the effect of stellar spots on ARIEL transmission spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10085 Methane as a dominant absorber in the habitable-zone sub-Neptune K2-18 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10424 Orbital evolution of potentially habitable planets of tidally interacting binary stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10430 1D atmospheric study of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10459 Evidence for chromium hydride in the atmosphere of Hot Jupiter WASP-31b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10558 Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691 November 20, 2020 updates Near-infrared Opacity of Late M Dwarfs and Hot Jupiters: The E 3Π–X 3Δ Transition of TiO https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc24c JWST Transit Spectra. II. Constraining Aerosol Species, Particle-size Distributions, Temperature, and Metallicity for Cloudy Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abbc6c A Closer Look at Exoplanet Occurrence Rates: Considering the Multiplicity of Stars Without Detected Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09564 November 19, 2020 updates Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856 b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc564 Survivor Bias: Divergent Fates of the Solar System’s Ejected versus Persisting Planetesimals https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc55f A collage of small planets from the Lick Carnegie Exoplanet Survey : Exploring the super-Earth and sub-Neptune mass regime https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08867 The Probability that a Rocky Planet’s Composition Reflects its Host Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08893 Eccentricity Driven Climate Effects in the Kepler-1649 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09074 Brightness modulations of our nearest terrestrial planet Venus reveal atmospheric super-rotation rather than surface features https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09271 November 18, 2020 updates Oort cloud Ecology II: Extra-solar Oort clouds and the origin of asteroidal interlopers https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08257 Influence of a Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst on Ocean Plankton https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08433 Kepler-90: Giant transit-timing variations reveal a super-puff https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08515 Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Habitable-zone Super-Earth LHS 1140 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08815 November 17, 2020 updates Generation of Unbound Comets and Planets by Planetary Systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920110098 Finding Signs of Life on Transiting Earthlike Planets: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through Time around FGKM Host Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abb9b2 Direct imaging of sub-Jupiter mass exoplanets with James Webb Space Telescope coronagraphy https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07075 Multi-color photometry and parameters estimation of Jupiter-sized exoplanets; TRES-3b, WASP-2b and HATP-30b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07169 Detection of the hydrogen Balmer lines in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07888 ← Previous 1 2 3 … 144 Next →
November 23, 2020 updates The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2149 Spectropolarimetry of Primitive Phototrophs as Global Surface Biosignatures https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2272 Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202013825 Correcting the effect of stellar spots on ARIEL transmission spectra https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10085 Methane as a dominant absorber in the habitable-zone sub-Neptune K2-18 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10424 Orbital evolution of potentially habitable planets of tidally interacting binary stars https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10430 1D atmospheric study of the temperate sub-Neptune K2-18b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10459 Evidence for chromium hydride in the atmosphere of Hot Jupiter WASP-31b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10558 Vetting of 384 TESS Objects of Interest with TRICERATOPS and Statistical Validation of 12 Planet Candidates https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00691
November 20, 2020 updates Near-infrared Opacity of Late M Dwarfs and Hot Jupiters: The E 3Π–X 3Δ Transition of TiO https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc24c JWST Transit Spectra. II. Constraining Aerosol Species, Particle-size Distributions, Temperature, and Metallicity for Cloudy Exoplanets https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abbc6c A Closer Look at Exoplanet Occurrence Rates: Considering the Multiplicity of Stars Without Detected Planets https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09564
November 19, 2020 updates Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856 b https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc564 Survivor Bias: Divergent Fates of the Solar System’s Ejected versus Persisting Planetesimals https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abc55f A collage of small planets from the Lick Carnegie Exoplanet Survey : Exploring the super-Earth and sub-Neptune mass regime https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08867 The Probability that a Rocky Planet’s Composition Reflects its Host Star https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08893 Eccentricity Driven Climate Effects in the Kepler-1649 System https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09074 Brightness modulations of our nearest terrestrial planet Venus reveal atmospheric super-rotation rather than surface features https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09271
November 18, 2020 updates Oort cloud Ecology II: Extra-solar Oort clouds and the origin of asteroidal interlopers https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08257 Influence of a Galactic Gamma-Ray Burst on Ocean Plankton https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08433 Kepler-90: Giant transit-timing variations reveal a super-puff https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08515 Hubble WFC3 Spectroscopy of the Habitable-zone Super-Earth LHS 1140 b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08815
November 17, 2020 updates Generation of Unbound Comets and Planets by Planetary Systems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920110098 Finding Signs of Life on Transiting Earthlike Planets: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through Time around FGKM Host Stars https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abb9b2 Direct imaging of sub-Jupiter mass exoplanets with James Webb Space Telescope coronagraphy https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07075 Multi-color photometry and parameters estimation of Jupiter-sized exoplanets; TRES-3b, WASP-2b and HATP-30b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07169 Detection of the hydrogen Balmer lines in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07888
