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 11, 2021 updates

Habitability Is Binary, But It Is Used by Astrobiologists to Encompass Continuous Ecological Questions
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2021.0038

Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres – I. The ATES photoionization hydrodynamics code
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/11/aa41497-21/aa41497-21.html

Contaminante: A Tool for Automatically Finding a Close-to-optimal Aperture for Transiting Signals in Kepler, K2, and TESS Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/2515-5172/5/11

Vetting: A Stand-alone Tool for Finding Centroid Offsets in NASA Kepler, K2, and TESS, Alerting the Presence of Exoplanet False Positives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac376a

‘Oumuamua and Interstellar Travel
https://inference-review.com/letter/oumuamua-and-interstellar-travel

The New Astronomical Frontier of Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05516

Search for an alien communication from the Solar System to a neighbor star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05334

Probing the \textit{Kepler} hottest small planets via homogeneous search and analysis of optical secondary eclipses and phase variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05716

November 10, 2021 updates

The ‘Breaking The Chains’ migration model for super-Earths formation: the effect of collisional fragmentation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab3203/6424291

INCREASE: An updated model suite to study the INfluence of Cosmic Rays on Exoplanetary AtmoSpherEs
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.20210072

KMT-2021-BLG-0912Lb: A microlensing super Earth around a K-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04861

Planetary climate under extremely high vertical diffusivity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04947

Growth and evolution of secondary volcanic atmospheres: I. Identifying the geological character of warm rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05161

Venusian phosphine: a ‘Wow!’ signal in chemistry?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05182

Probing Transit Timing Variations of Three Hot-Jupiters: HATP-36b, HATP-56b, and WASP-52b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05220

November 9, 2021 updates

Warp drive dynamic solutions considering different fluid sources
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.01298

Gravity beyond Einstein? Part III: numbers and coupling constants, contradictory experiments, hypercomplex gravity like-fields, propellantless space propulsion
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/zna-2021-0147/html

Bacterial Growth in Brines Formed by the Deliquescence of Salts Relevant to Cold Arid Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2336

Thermal Phase Curves of XO-3b: an Eccentric Hot Jupiter at the Deuterium Burning Limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03673

An Edge-On Orbit for the Eccentric Long-Period Planet HR 5183 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03676

OGLE-2019-BLG-0468Lb,c: two microlensing giant planets around a G-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03755

Signal preservation of exomoon transits during light curve folding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04444

HOW TO (DIS-)ASSEMBLE A PLANETARY SYSTEM (by turning a video game into an educational game)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04528

The impact of coronal mass ejections and flares on the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter HD189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04531

Tidal evolution and diffusive growth during high-eccentricity planet migration: revisiting the eccentricity distribution of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04649

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