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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January 20, 2021 updates

Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487

Introduction to the Interstellar Medium
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/introduction-to-the-interstellar-medium/9811D1292C8FDC4E2D9C6F5ADE2FA306

Probing the capability of future direct imaging missions to spectrally constrain the frequency of Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07378

Polarization of hot Jupiter systems: a likely detection of stellar activity and a possible detection of planetary polarization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07411

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07500

Kepler-411 Differential Rotation from Three Transiting Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07692

January 19, 2021 updates

LIStEN: L′ band Imaging Survey for Exoplanets in the North
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39541-20/aa39541-20.html

A multi-wavelength look at the GJ 9827 system — No evidence of extended atmospheres in GJ 9827 b and d from HST and CARMENES data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06277

Planet Occurrence Rate Correlated to Stellar Dynamical History: Evidence from Kepler Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06621

A Theoretical Framework for the Mass Distribution of Gas Giant Planets forming through the Core Accretion Paradigm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06714

A photospheric and chromospheric activity analysis of the quiescent retrograde-planet host ν Octantis A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06844

Physical Constraints on Motility with Applications to Possible Life on Mars and Enceladus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06876

The ExoGRAVITY project: using single mode interferometry to characterize exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07098

Spectral signature of atmospheric winds in high resolution transit observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07143

January 18, 2021 updates

Feasibility assessment of deceleration technologies for interstellar probes
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Feasibility-assessment-of-deceleration-technologies-for-interstellar-probes

The curse of clouds
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/62/1/1.36/6102751

Enhanced ion acceleration in the relativistic transparent regime due to the laser rising edge
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/abd4c2

Vertically resolved magma ocean–protoatmosphere evolution: H2, H2O, CO2, CH4, CO, O2, and N2 as primary absorbers
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006711

January 14, 2021 updates

Search for wormhole candidates in active galactic nuclei: radiation from colliding accreting flows
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09411

Retraction Notice: Revised instellation patterns for close-in exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/501/3/3846/6096437

A Search for Technosignatures around 31 Sun-like Stars with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15–1.73 GHz
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abcc77

OGLE-2019-BLG-0960Lb: The Smallest Microlensing Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04696

A hot mini-Neptune in the radius valley orbiting solar analogue HD 110113
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04745

Exoplanet Imaging Data Challenge: benchmarking the various image processing methods for exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05080