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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January 4, 2022 updates

On Attitude Dynamics of Electric Solar Wind Sail
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2022-2578

Robust Solar Sail Trajectory Design under Uncertainty with Application to NEA Scout Mission
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2022-1627

Dynamo activity of the K dwarf KOI-883 from transit photometry mapping
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3788/6492083

Tidal modulations and the habitability of exoplanetary systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3796/6492090

Orbital Stability of Planet-hosting Triple-star Systems according to Hill: Applications to Alpha Centauri and 16 Cygni
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac45f1

Planetary Terrestrial Analogues Library Project: 3. Characterization of Samples with MicrOmega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00778

Hyper-Fast Positive Energy Warp Drives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00652

December 30, 2021 updates

Knocking on the Stars: The Philosophical Implications of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
http://clusty.ast.villanova.edu/aprsa/files/mortensen_final.pdf

A Review on Human Interplanetary Exploration Challenges
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2022-2585

The Economics of Interstellar Flight
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.13911

Spin-orbit coupling for close-in planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14335

Composition of super-Earths, super-Mercuries, and their host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14512