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, 2021 updates

Defining Intelligence-Favouring Galactic Parameters For Targeted SETI Searches
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/defining-intelligence-favouring-galactic-parameters-for-targeted-seti-searches/

Genetic Evolution Of A Multi-Generational Population In The Context Of Interstellar Space Travel
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/genetic-evolution-of-a-multi-generational-population-in-the-context-of-interstellar-space-travel/

How Many Alien Probes Could Have Come From Stars Passing By Earth?
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/how-many-alien-probes-could-have-come-from-stars-passing-by-earth/

Human Hibernation for Long-duration Space Missions
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/human-hibernation-for-long-duration-space-missions/

THE WORMSHIP: A DARK ENERGY RAMJET – Engineering, SETI Detectability, and Implications for Cosmic Expansion
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/the-wormship-a-dark-energy-ramjet-engineering-seti-detectability-and-implications-for-cosmic-expansion/

L 98-59: a Benchmark System of Small Planets for Future Atmospheric Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00685

Quantifying the Similarity of Planetary System Architectures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00688

TOI-674b: an oasis in the desert of exo-Neptunes transiting a nearby M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01246

Testing whether a signal is strictly periodic. Application to disentangling planets and stellar activity in radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01365

June 1, 2021 updates

Space Radiation Effects: Comparison of Ovarian Toxicity of Low dose Gamma Radiation vs High LET Charged Particle Radiation
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0d41q7tk

Astrobiology (Overview)
https://oxfordre.com/planetaryscience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.001.0001/acrefore-9780190647926-e-1

Predicting exoplanet mass from radius and incident flux: A Bayesian mixture model
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1584/6290507

A Community Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge for Roman CGI and Starshade Rendezvous
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14140

Comparative Analysis of the Model for Exoplanet Atmosphere Outflow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14343

Evidence Suggesting that ‘Oumuamua is the ~30 Myr-old product of a Molecular Cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14670

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Spectroscopic orbits of nine M-dwarf multiple systems, including two triples, two brown dwarf candidates, and one close M-dwarf-white dwarf binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14770

Auto-Differentiable Spectrum Model for High-Dispersion Characterization of Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14782

Transiting Exoplanet Monitoring Project (TEMP). VI. The Homogeneous Refinement of System Parameters for 39 Transiting Hot Jupiters with 127 New Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14851

Evolution of Earth-like extended exospheres orbiting solar-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.15026

May 31, 2021 updates

Chance Played a Role in Determining Whether Earth Stayed Habitable
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00057-8

A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) – IV. Candidate exoplanets around stars in open clusters: frequency and age–planetary radius distribution
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1497/6287591

Detection Limits of Low-mass, Long-period Exoplanets Using Gaussian Processes Applied to HARPS-N Solar Radial Velocities
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf1e0

The concept of creating thrust based on change angular momentum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10775

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Mapping stellar activity indicators across the M dwarf domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13467

Planets around young active Solar-type stars: Assessing detection capabilities from a non stabilised spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13537

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two terrestrial planets orbiting G 264-012 and one terrestrial planet orbiting Gl 393
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13785

May 28, 2021 updates

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). VI. Introducing KOBE: Kepler Observes Bern Exoplanets. Theoretical perspectives on the architecture of planetary systems: Peas in a pod
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12745

Sculpting the sub-Saturn Occurrence Rate via Atmospheric Mass Loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12746

Storms, Variability, and Multiple Equilibria on Hot-Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12759

The First Dynamical Mass Measurement in the HR 8799 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12820

The Aligned Orbit of the Eccentric Warm Jupiter K2-232b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12902