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 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

July 9, 2021 updates

Stable Morris Thorne wormholes supported by non-exotic matter
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S021988782150170X

Infrastructure Design Concepts for Space Permanence
https://www.proquest.com/openview/4fca83dcd733e27e9e80b2e2b10c0e00/1

Expert habitat: a colonization conjecture for exoplanetary habitability via penalized multi-objective optimization-based candidate validation
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00208-8

Goldilocks planets ‘with a tilt’ may develop more complex life
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-goldilocks-planets-tilt-complex-life.html

On the applicability of Benford law to exoplanetary and asteroid data
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621000865

New Giant Planet beyond the Snow Line for an Extended MOA Exoplanet Microlens Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03400

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — Planet occurrence rates from a subsample of 71 stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03802

July 8, 2021 updates

Joining the “Galactic Club”: What Price Admission? – A hypothetical case study of the impact of human rights on a future accession of humanity to interstellar civilisation networks
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328721001105

The Second Discovery from the COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS) Program: A Cold Wide-Orbit Exoplanet around a Young Field M Dwarf at 10.9 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02805

An internal heating mechanism operating in ultra-short-period planets orbiting magnetically active stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03044

Spitzer phase curve observations and circulation models of the inflated ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03349

Furthering a Comprehensive SETI Bibliography
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02887