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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February 17, 2021 updates

A Readily Implemented Atmosphere Sustainability Constraint for Terrestrial Exoplanets Orbiting Magnetically Active Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07837

On the Correlation between Hot Jupiters and Stellar Clustering: High-Eccentricity Migration Induced by Stellar Flybys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07898

On the condition for the central caustic degeneracy of the planetary microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07950

Exoplanets Prediction in Multiplanetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08066

Characterisation of 92 Southern TESS Candidate Planet Hosts and a New Photometric [Fe/H] Relation for Cool Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08133

General relativistic spin precessions and the habitability of rocky planets of fast spinning late M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07815

`Oumuamua is not Artificial
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07871

February 16, 2021 updates

A convolutional neural network (CNN) based ensemble model for exoplanet detection
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12145-021-00579-5

Precise transit and radial-velocity characterization of a resonant pair: a warm Jupiter TOI-216c and eccentric warm Neptune TOI-216b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06754

OGLE-2018-BLG-0567Lb and OGLE-2018-BLG-0962Lb: Two Microlensing Planets through Planetary-Caustic Channel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07338

A backward-spinning star with two coplanar planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07677

February 12, 2021 updates

Implications of the iron oxide phase transition on the interiors of rocky exoplanets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-00684-y

Myocardial Disease and Long-Distance Space Travel: Solving the Radiation Problem
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2021.631985/full

Steady state by recycling prevents premature collapse of protoplanetary atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/02/aa40220-20/aa40220-20.html

A new approach to spectroscopic phase curves – The emission spectrum of WASP-12b observed in quadrature with HST/WFC3
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/02/aa38865-20/aa38865-20.html

HD 219134 Revisited: Planet d Transit Upper Limit and Planet f Transit Nondetection with ASTERIA and TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abcd3d

Study on superconducting magnetic shield for the manned long termed space voyages
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110982321000016

Minimal conditions for survival of technological civilizations in the face of stellar evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05703

Impact of photochemical hazes and gases on exoplanet atmospheric thermal structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05763

Relative occurrence rates of terrestrial planets orbiting FGK stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05808

Dynamical orbital evolution scenarios of the wide-orbit eccentric planet HR 5183b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06031

February 1, 2021 updates

Enhancing Direct Exoplanet Spectroscopy with Apodizing and Beam Shaping Optics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/abdace

Cloud Parameterizations and their Effect on Retrievals of Exoplanet Reflection Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05305

Limits on the presence of planets in systems with debris disks: HD 92945 and HD 107146
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05353

HATS-34b and HATS-46b: Re-characterisation Using TESS and Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.05420