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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May 29, 2020 updates

Investigating the Development of Hot Jupiters and Rogue Planets through Universe Sandbox 2
https://www.pcs.cnu.edu/~dgore/Capstone/files/KerrT.pdf

A linear formation-flying astronomical interferometer in low Earth orbit
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/linear-formationflying-astronomical-interferometer-in-low-earth-orbit/51EB0695D4A4B2A0912000DB527B657F

Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultranarrowband Photometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab8e34

Demonstrating high-precision photometry with a CubeSat: ASTERIA observations of 55 Cancri e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14155

Scheduling ESPRESSO follow-up of TESS Targets. I. Myopic versus non-myopic sampling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14008

Enrichment of the HR 8799 planets by minor bodies and dust
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13562

Following the TraCS of exoplanets with Pan-Planets: Wendelstein-1b and Wendelstein-2b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13560

Obliquity Constraints on an Extrasolar Planetary-Mass Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11131

The Effect of Substellar Continent Size on Ocean Dynamics of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14185

May 28, 2020 updates

Qualitative classification of extraterrestrial civilizations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13221

Evidence that 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua) was composed of molecular hydrogen ice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12932

Implications of different stellar spectra for the climate of tidally-locked Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13002

Detection of exomoons in simulated light curves with a regularized convolutional neural network
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13035

Atmospheric Escape From TOI-700 d: Venus vs. Earth Analogs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13190

May 26, 2020 updates

On the use of Dyson-Structures for Prevention of Asteroid Catastrophes
https://osf.io/qtmdk/

Highlights of Exoplanetary Science from Spitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11331

The Space Environment and Atmospheric Joule Heating of the Habitable Zone Exoplanet TOI700-d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11587

Revisiting Proxima with ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12114

Atmospheric circulation of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets driven by cloud radiative feedback: effects of rotation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12152

May 25, 2020 updates

Aerosol composition of hot giant exoplanets dominated by silicates and hydrocarbon hazes
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1114-3

CRaTER Observations and Permissible Mission Duration for Human Operations in Deep Space
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552420300341

Future interstellar rockets may use laser-induced annihilation reactions for relativistic drive
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576520303179

Possible Interstellar meteoroids detected by the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10896

K2-HERMES II. Planet-candidate properties from K2 Campaigns 1-13
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10959

The HST PanCET Program: An Optical to Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HAT-P-32Ab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11293

May 22, 2020 updates

The Planetary Luminosity Problem: “Missing Planets” and the Observational Consequences of Episodic Accretion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8388

Oceanographic Considerations for Exoplanet Life Detection
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab88c9

PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10253

Tidal evolution of exoplanetary systems hosting Potentially Habitable Exoplanets. The cases of LHS-1140 b-c and K2-18 b-c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10318