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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July 16, 2021 updates

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. II. Discovery of a Failed Hot Jupiter on a 2.7 Year, Highly Eccentric Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06901

Detection and Bulk Properties of the HR 8799 Planets with High Resolution Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06949

New Observations of the Eclipsing Binary System NY Vir and its Candidate Circumbinary Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07003

Grain Growth in Escaping Atmospheres: Implications for the Radius Inflation of Super-Puffs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07027

Haze Evolution in Temperate Exoplanet Atmospheres Through Surface Energy Measurements
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07069

Planetary Migration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07269

Strategies and Advice for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07283

July 15, 2021 updates

The 13CO-rich atmosphere of a young accreting super-Jupiter
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03616-x

MOA-2007-BLG-400 A Super-Jupiter-mass Planet Orbiting a Galactic Bulge K-dwarf Revealed by Keck Adaptive Optics Imaging
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abfec5

Exoplanets with ELT-METIS I: Estimating the direct imaging exoplanet yield around stars within 6.5 parsecs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06375

The Impact of Stellar Clustering on the Observed Multiplicity of Super-Earth systems: Outside-in Cascade of Orbital Misalignments Initiated by Stellar Flybys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06412

A Universal Cloud Composition on the Nightsides of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06417

On The Spin Dynamics of Elongated Minor Bodies with Applications to a Possible Solar System Analogue Composition for `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06834

SETI strategy with FAST fractality
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07334

An integrable model for first-order three-planet mean motion resonances
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06299

July 14, 2021 updates

Exobiology of the Venusian Clouds: New Insights into Habitability through Terrestrial Models and Methods of Detection
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2296

A Red Giant Branch Common-envelope Evolution Scenario for the Exoplanet WD 1856 b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac0f7d

The Impact of Mixing Treatments on Cloud Modelling in 3D Simulations of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05732

Further Evidence for Tidal Spin-Up of Hot Jupiter Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05759

Wormholes without exotic matter: quasinormal modes, echoes and shadows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05977

July 13, 2021 updates

Optimal Strategies for Exploring Near-by Stars
https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1613180/

The homogeneous characterisation of Ariel host stars
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09765-1

Haze evolution in temperate exoplanet atmospheres through surface energy measurements
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01375-3

How Close are Compact Multiplanet Systems to the Stability Limit?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac00a9

Dependencies of Mantle Shock Heating in Pairwise Accretion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abffd1

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVIII: Six new cold Jupiters, including one of the most eccentric exoplanet orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05089

TOI-1749: an M dwarf with a Trio of Planets including a Near-Resonant Pair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05430

A Five-Planet Resonant Chain: Reevaluation of the Kepler-80 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05597

July 12, 2021 updates

Creep tide model for the three-body problem – The rotational evolution of a circumbinary planet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/07/aa40957-21/aa40957-21.html

Earth system interventions as technologies of the Anthropocene
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422421000411

The peak absorbance wavelength of photosynthetic pigments around other stars from spectral optimization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04120

A Spectroscopic Analysis of the California-Kepler Survey Sample: II. Correlations of Stellar Metallicities with Planetary Architectures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04153