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 2, 2021 updates

Phase curve and variability analysis of WASP-12b using TESS photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00052

A Heavy Molecular Weight Atmosphere for the Super-Earth π Men c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00203

Neutral metals in the atmosphere of HD149026b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00211

Influence of Biomass Emissions upon Habitability, Biosignatures and Detectability in Earth-like Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00220

Terrestrial Exoplanet Simulator (TES): an error optimal planetary systems integrator that permits close encounters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00465

Steady State by Recycling prevents Premature Collapse of Protoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00939

February 1, 2021 updates

Minimum Units of Habitability and Their Abundance in the Universe
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2350

KMT-2019-BLG-0371 and the Limits of Bayesian Analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12206

A sub-Neptune and a non-transiting Neptune-mass companion unveiled by ESPRESSO around the bright late-F dwarf HD 5278 (TOI-130)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12300

Simulation of 10830 Å absorption with a 3D hydrodynamic model reveals the solar He abundance in upper atmosphere of WASP-107b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12504

The Census of Exoplanets in Visual Binaries: population trends from a volume-limited Gaia DR2 and literature search
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12667

January 29, 2021 updates

Classification of orbits in three-dimensional exoplanetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/01/aa39690-20/aa39690-20.html

Modelling the imposed magnetospheres of Mars-like exoplanets: Star-planet interactions and atmospheric losses
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab225/6122573

A Heavy Molecular Weight Atmosphere for the Super-Earth π Men c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abd9b8

Icy Exomoons Evidenced by Spallogenic Nuclides in Polluted White Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abd9ba

Unlocking starlight subtraction in full data rate exoplanet imaging by efficiently updating Karhunen-Loève eigenimages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11634

Oceanic Superrotation on Tidally Locked Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11784

Life in Elliptical Galaxies: Hot Spheroids, Fast Stars, Deadly Comets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11833

Validation of HD 183579b using archival radial velocities: a warm-neptune orbiting a bright solar analog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.12137

January 27, 2021 updates

The Extended Habitable Epoch of the Universe for Liquids Other than Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10341

Bioverse: a simulation framework to assess the statistical power of future biosignature surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10393

Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with HARPS-N VII. Elder suns with low-mass companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10410

The Linkage between the Core Mass and the Magnetic Field of an Extrasolar Giant Planet from Future Radio Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10673

Identifying Planetary Transit Candidates in TESS Full-Frame Image Light Curves via Convolutional Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10919

Development of the SPECULOOS exoplanet search project
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10970

The best place and time to live in the Milky Way
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13539