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 3, 2020 updates

A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) – II. Search for exoplanets in open clusters of the southern ecliptic hemisphere and their frequency
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1465/5850378

Maunder’s Work on Planetary Habitability in 1913: Early Use of the term “Habitable Zone” and a “Drake Equation” Calculation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9831

Outburst and Splitting of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01242

Four Jovian planets around low-luminosity giant stars observed by the EXPRESS and PPPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01277

Estimation of the Total Mass of 10 Exoplanets and their Host Stars Based on the Primary Transit Method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01583

Radius Study of Ten Transiting Hot Jupiter Exoplanets with Ground-Based Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01591

Period Study by the Transit Method with Ground-Based Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01587

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Measuring precise radial velocities in the near infrared: the example of the super-Earth CD Cet b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01684

Theoretical Studies of Comets in the 55 Cancri System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01711

The Fate of Binary Stars Hosting Planets upon Interaction with Sgr A* Black hole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01807

Reworking the SETI Paradox: METI’s Place on the Continuum of Astrobiological Signaling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01167

June 2, 2020 updates

Challenges in Scientific Data Communication from Low-Mass Interstellar Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07778

On the role of reduced wind mass-loss rate in enabling exoplanets to shape planetary nebulae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09077

Near-Infrared Transit Photometry of Extra-Solar Planet HAT-P-54b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00220

Probing Transit Timing Variation and its Possible Origin with Twelve New Transits of TrES-3b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00599

Masses for the seven planets in K2-32 and K2-233. Four diverse planets in resonant chain and the first young rocky worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01102

June 1, 2020 updates

Near-Term Self-replicating Probes–A Concept Design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12303

Z-pinch fusion
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0004228

Coma Anisotropy and the Rotation Pole of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9228

Tides on other Earths: implications for exoplanet and palaeo‐tidal simulations
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019GL085746

Aquatic Biospheres On Temperate Planets Around Sun-like Stars And M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14387

Mineral cloud and hydrocarbon haze particles in the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter JWST target WASP-43b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14595

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