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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November 26, 2019 updates

Survivability of Anhydrobiotic Cyanobacteria in Salty Ice: Implications for the Habitability of Icy Worlds
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/9/4/86

Formation of compact systems of super-Earths via dynamical instabilities and giant impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10277

Prospects for Directly Imaging Young Giant Planets at Optical Wavelengths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10585

Different types of star-planet interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10915

Estimating Planetary Mass with Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11035

An Arc-Length Approximation For Elliptical Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10584

November 25, 2019 updates

Hyper-SETI–A New Way of Searching for Extraterrestrial Iintelligence
https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/ifex/2019/IAC-19_A4_1_13_x48686_full_paper.pdf

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Propellantless Propulsion
http://www.pioneerastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Dipole-Drive-A-New-Concept-in-Propellantless-Propulsion.pdf

Exoplanet atmospheres as indicators of life: From hot gas giants to Earth-like planets
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/204833/factsheet/en

Volcanic activity and the exosphere of HD3167b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09916

Atmospheric Characterization and Further Orbital Modeling of κ And b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09758

November 22, 2019 updates

Systematic simulations of FFP scattering by a star–planet pair
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-019-9931-3

A Search for Multiplanet Systems with TESS Using a Bayesian N-body Retrieval and Machine Learning
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab4e1c

Simulated Direct Imaging Detection of Water Vapor For Exo-Earths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab5964

The Orbit of WASP-12b is Decaying
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09131

A mirage of the cosmic shoreline: Venus-like clouds as a statistical false positive for exoplanet atmospheric erosion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09132

Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 Micron Feature in Reflected Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09211

Exploring Whether Super-Puffs Can Be Explained as Ringed Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09673

November 21, 2019 updates

TARdYS: Design and prototype of an exoplanet hunter for TAO using a R6 Echelle grating
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-019-09642-y

Cosmic biology in perspective
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3698-6

Impact of Clouds and Hazes on the Simulated JWST Transmission Spectra of Habitable Zone Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08596

NASA Probe Study Report: Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets (FARSIDE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08649

A super-solar metallicity atmosphere for WASP-127b revealed by transmission spectroscopy from HST and Spitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08859

Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich terrestrial planets beyond the runaway greenhouse limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08878