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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August 17, 2021 updates

An integrable model for first-order three-planet mean motion resonances
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-021-10035-7

Close substellar-mass companions in stellar wide binaries: Discovery and characterization with APOGEE and Gaia DR2
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab2349/6352986

Exoplanet in the triple star system as the probable source of effective cyclotron emission
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063321001616

LUVOIR-ECLIPS closed-loop adaptive optics performance and contrast predictions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06403

The Pandora SmallSat: Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06438

Searching for Kardashev Type \rom{3} civilisations]{\LARGE Searching for Kardashev Type \rom{3} civilisations from High q-Value Sources in the LoTSS-DR1 Value-added Catalogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.06597

Multipole representation of a generic gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07172

August 12, 2021 updates

Wobbling towards the Future: Applications of the Radial Velocity Technique to Detect Ever-Smaller Exoplanets
https://www.proquest.com/openview/7330461ee203c9fae15d89d272d9418a/

TauREx 3: A Fast, Dynamic, and Extendable Framework for Retrievals
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac0252

Ross 19B: An Extremely Cold Companion Discovered via the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05321

A pair of warm giant planets near the 2:1 mean motion resonance around the K-dwarf star TOI-2202
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.05323

Atmospheric Circulation of Hot Jupiters: Dayside-Nightside Temperature Differences. II. Comparison with Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03893

August 11, 2021 updates

ExoClock project: an open platform for monitoring the ephemerides of Ariel targets with contributions from the public
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09696-3

Dust Production of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Throughout Perihelion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0fd8

Obliquity and Eccentricity Constraints For Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.09240

Photochemistry and Spectral Characterization of Temperate and Gas-Rich Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04419

Unveiling shrouded oceans on temperate sub-Neptunes via transit signatures of solubility equilibria vs. gas thermochemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04745

August 10, 2021 updates

Exploration of the solar system and beyond using a thermonuclear fusion drive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01689

A Proposed Geobiology-Driven Nomenclature for Astrobiological In Situ Observations and Sample Analyses
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2318

Did Solid Surfaces Enable the Origin of Life?
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/8/795/htm

Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Displacement-Cosmobiology-Cosmolocality-Cosmosocioecology-ebook/dp/B084T5QSDM

Restoring optical forces and torques for passive stabilization of microscopic lightsails
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11798/2594383/Restoring-optical-forces-and-torques-for-passive-stabilization-of-microscopic/10.1117/12.2594383.short

Minimal Crew And Human Evolution In Multi-Generational Interstellar Travel Based On Population Genetics
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/minimal-crew-and-human-evolution-in-multi-generational-interstellar-travel-based-on-population-genetics/

On the Need for a Classification System for Consistent Characterization of the Composition of Planetary Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03343

Does detecting water vapors on rocky planets indicate the presence of oceans?: An insight from self-consistent mantle degassing models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03759

Spitzer Dayside Emission of WASP-34b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04101

Idealized 2D Cloud-Resolving Simulations for Tidally Locked Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04143