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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June 17, 2020 updates

Principles of Pulsar Space Navigation
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920070057

Searching for thermal inversion agents in the transmission spectrum of KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b: detection of neutral iron and ionised calcium H&K lines
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/496/1/504/5856007

Simultaneous Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of a Terrestrial, Habitable-zone Exoplanet with Two Ground-based Multiobject Spectrographs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab935f

Directly imaged exoplanets in reflected starlight. The importance of knowing the planet radius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08784

Formation of aqua planets with water of nebular origin: Effects of water enrichment on the structure and mass of captured atmospheres of terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09068

June 16, 2020 updates

A Moving Target—Revising the Mass of Proxima Centauri c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9ca9

A Geologically Robust Procedure For Observing Rocky Exoplanets to Ensure that Detection of Atmospheric Oxygen is an Earth-Like Biosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07403

Tentative Evidence for Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the Neptune-Size Exoplanet HD 106315 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07444

TATOO: a tidal-chronology standalone tool to estimate the age of massive close-in planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07880

Destruction of molecular hydrogen ice and Implications for 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08088

Keeping M-Earths Habitable in the Face of Atmospheric Loss by Sequestering Water in the Mantle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08514

A Quantitative Assessment of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Civilizations in the Galaxy and the Case of FRB-like Signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08493

June 15, 2020 updates

Resonance locking in giant planets indicated by the rapid orbital expansion of Titan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06854

JWST Transit Spectra I: Exploring Potential Biases and Opportunities in Retrievals of Tidally-locked Hot Jupiters with Clouds and Hazes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06899

Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the upper atmosphere of π Men c: comparison with Lyα transit observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06959

π Earth: a 3.14 days Earth-sized Planet from \textit{K2}’s Kitchen served warm by the SPECULOOS Team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07308

June 12, 2020 updates

Gravity Assist: Puffy Planets, Powerful Telescopes, with Knicole Colon
https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/gravity-assist-puffy-planets-powerful-telescopes-with-knicole-colon

Neutral Cr and V in the atmosphere of ultra hot jupiter WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05995

Is the faint young Sun problem for Earth solved?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06265

Unresolved Binary Exoplanet Host Stars Fit as Single Stars: Effects on the Stellar Parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06528

Coevolution of primitive methane cycling ecosystems and early Earth atmosphere and climate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06433

June 11, 2020 updates

NASA confirms JWST will miss March 2021 launch date
https://spacenews.com/nasa-confirms-jwst-will-miss-march-2021-launch-date/

Information Content of JWST NIRSpec Transmission Spectra of Warm Neptunes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9176

Coupled Thermal and Compositional Evolution of Photoevaporating Planet Envelopes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab873f

Curvature Invariants for Wormholes and Warped Spacetimes
https://search.proquest.com/openview/cb85487fa25cb3423e71120df0170053/1

Using the Interstellar Probe to Decipher Exoplanet Signatures of Our Planets from the Very Local Interstellar Medium
https://surveygizmoresponseuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/fileuploads/15647/4139225/196-8e2d83e91e913e0e21828742ad517df7_ISP_Exoplanet_White_Paper_v2.pdf

Assessing Spectra and Thermal Inversions due to TiO in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04807

Indications for very high metallicity and absence of methane for the eccentric exo-Saturn WASP-117b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05382

Planetary thermal evolution models with tectonic transitions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05654

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence Towards Later Spectral Types for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04348