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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December 10, 2020 updates

Philosophical Thoughts on the Issue of a Potential Future Contact with an Extraterrestrial Civilization
https://www.academia.edu/35988452/PHILOSOPHICAL_THOUGHTS_ON_THE_ISSUE_OF_A_POTENTIAL_FUTURE_CONTACT_WITH_AN_EXTRATERRESTRIAL_CIVILIZATION

Giant Outer Transiting Exoplanet Mass (GOT ‘EM) Survey. I. Confirmation of an Eccentric, Cool Jupiter With an Interior Earth-sized Planet Orbiting Kepler-1514
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04676

Spectroscopic fourth-order coronagraph for the characterization of terrestrial planets at small angular separations from host stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04779

Revisiting the HD 21749 Planetary System with Stellar Activity Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04873

Improving the RSM map exoplanet detection algorithm: PSF forward modelling and optimal selection of PSF subtraction techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05094

December 9, 2020 updates

Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL) for Biosignatures, SETI, and Interstellar Telecommunications
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/Dz8IKzYNKrRMnO_WztA6eXetafaiGUhcYQnjw95uI5Gebl3S8kdeNzvXD4NDh5vwXH-8_mWYfOQtdFcF.7lemH6kqbXMgtx0C

A Flare-type IV Burst Event from Proxima Centauri and Implications for Space Weather
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abca90

ARES IV: Probing the Atmospheres of the Two Warm Small Planets HD 106315c and HD 3167c with the HST/WFC3 Camera
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc3c8

Characterization of a multi-etalon array for ultra-high resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04007

Detecting and characterizing close-in exoplanets with Vortex Fiber Nulling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04239

Planet cartography with neural learned regularization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.04460

December 8, 2020 updates

Slow Biospheres: Habitability over the Longue Durée
https://youtu.be/C2cyeGIJTnw

Using Earth’s history to inform the search for life on exoplanets
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/12/08/using-earths-history-inform-search-life-exoplanets

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II. An Increase in Inner Planetary System Occurrence toward Later Spectral Types for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc68b

An Integrated Analysis with Predictions on the Architecture of the τ Ceti Planetary System, Including a Habitable Zone Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abc560

A medium-resolution spectrum of the exoplanet HIP 65426 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02798

Formation of multiple-planet systems in resonant chains around M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03469

Parking planets in circumbinary discs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.03651

December 7, 2020 updates

Distinguishing Between Biological and Machine Civilization Techno-signatures
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/12/04/distinguishing-between-biological-and-machine-civilization-techno-signatures/

Space, the Final Frontier: In the Scientific Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life Away from Earth
https://www.academia.edu/42678316/Space_the_Final_Frontier_In_the_Scientific_Pursuit_of_Extraterrestrial_Life_Away_from_Earth

Extremophiles as Astrobiological Models
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119593096

No escaping helium from 55 Cnc e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02198

Decaying Orbit of the Hot Jupiter WASP-12b: Confirmation with TESS Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02211

A Distinct Population of Small Planets: Sub-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02273

A Newtonian model for the WASP-148 exoplanetary system enhanced with TESS and ground-based photometric observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02602

December 4, 2020 updates

Searching for Possible Exoplanet Transits from BRITE Data through a Machine Learning Technique
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/abbb24

A Word of Caution About Exoplanet Archival Data
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abcf4d

Refined System Ephemeris for Four Transiting Hot Jupiters using Ground-Based and TESS Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01486

Overview and Reassessment of Noise Budget of Starshade Exoplanet Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.01609

Monitoring the radio emission of Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02116