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 8, 2021 Updates

Tidal Response and Shape of Hot Jupiters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac1a72

CI Tau: A Controlled Experiment in Disk–Planet Interaction
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac32df

A Mid-Infrared Study of Directly-Imaged Planetary-Mass Companions using Archival Spitzer/IRAC Images
Https://Arxiv.Org/Abs/2111.03087

Narrow belt of debris around the Sco-Cen star HD 141011
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03335

Investigation of an orbital decay and global modeling of the planet WASP-43 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03346

Second-generation dust in planetary systems: The case of HD 163296
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03530

Tardigrades could survive interstellar space travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407921019679

The mass budget necessary to explain ‘Oumuamua as a nitrogen iceberg
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107621001445

November 5, 2021 updates

Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/26141/pathways-to-discovery-in-astronomy-and-astrophysics-for-the-2020s

To Find Life on Other Planets, NASA Rocket Team Looks to the Stars
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/to-find-life-on-other-planets-nasa-rocket-team-looks-to-the-stars

An Examination Of The Fermi Paradox By Modelling The Use Of Self-Replicating Probes
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/an-examination-of-the-fermi-paradox-by-modelling-the-use-of-self-replicating-probes/

Could The Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua Be A Solar Thermal Propulsion Vehicle
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/could-the-interstellar-object-oumuamua-be-a-solar-thermal-propulsion-vehicle/

SETI And Evolutionary Population Dynamics
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/seti-and-evolutionary-population-dynamics/

The Impact Of Natural Selection On Crew Size And Human Evolution During Interstellar Travel
https://bis-space.com/shop/product/the-impact-of-natural-selection-on-crew-size-and-human-evolution-during-interstellar-travel/

TOI-712: a system of adolescent mini-Neptunes extending to the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02416

Time-Resolved Photometry of the High-Energy Radiation of M Dwarfs with the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02443

K2-79b and K2-222b: Mass measurements of two small exoplanets with periods beyond 10 days that overlap with periodic magnetic activity signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02608

Exploring the Effects of Active Magnetic Drag in a GCM of the Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13371

November 4, 2021 updates

Fast interstellar space travel by reduced mass via 5D Electromagnetism
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-4002

Extreme solar sailing for fast transit exploration of solar system and interstellar medium
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-4227

Contemplating Relativistic and Warp Speeds: Feasible Matter/Anti-Matter Propulsion and the Novel Theoretical Possibility of Attaining Warp Speeds
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2021-4111

Three faint-source microlensing planets detected via the resonant-caustic channel
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/11/aa41517-21/aa41517-21.html

GPU-enabled searches for periodic signals of unknown shape
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133721000652

On Tides and Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01984

Orbital Dynamics and the Evolution of Planetary Habitability in the AU Mic System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01816

Photometric Search for Exomoons by using Convolutional Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02293

November 3, 2021 updates

Polluted white dwarfs reveal exotic mantle rock types on exoplanets in our solar neighborhood
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26403-8

Confirmation of Iron Emission Lines and Nondetection of TiO on the Dayside of KELT-9b with MAROON-X
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac30e1

A Search for Analogs of KIC 8462852 (Boyajian’s Star): A Second List of Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01208

The Warm Neptune GJ 3470b has a Polar Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01295

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Diagnostic capabilities of strong K I lines for photosphere and chromosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01552

TOI-2257 b: A highly eccentric long-period sub-Neptune transiting a nearby M dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01749

The Influence of 10 Unique Chemical Elements in Shaping the Distribution of Kepler Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01753

November 2, 2021 updates

Metasurface Laser Lightsails
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9577132

Antimatter as an Energy Source
https://www.ijres.org/papers/Volume-9/Issue-10/Ser-3/I09105055.pdf

Changes in Blood Biomarkers of Brain Injury and Degeneration Following Long-Duration Spaceflight
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/2784623

A Search for Planetary Metastable Helium Absorption in the V1298 Tau System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac1bb0

Jules Verne’s Formulation of the Fermi Question
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac3428

Oxygen controls on magmatism in rocky exoplanets
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/45/e2110427118

The “Breaking The Chains” migration model for super-Earths formation: the effect of collisional fragmentation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00059

Stellar Wind Effect on the Atmospheric Escape of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00471

Hiding in plain sight: observing planet-starspot crossings with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.00828