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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September 7, 2021 updates

Frontier Research in Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Era-II (Exoplanets and Emergence of Life)
https://www.astroscu.unam.mx/rmaa/RMxAC..53/PDF/RMxAC..53_Sabau+Giovanelli-XLII.pdf

Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space: Context-Based Legitimacy in Global Governance of Large Technical Systems
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/03043754211039624

Exotheology: Theological Explorations of Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.amazon.com/Exotheology-Joel-L-Parkyn/dp/1725291479/

Atmospheric Transmission Spectroscopy of Hot Jupiter KELT-10b using Synthetic Telluric Correction Software
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac132b

Atmospheric Modelling and Retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01976

Postulating Exoplanetary Habitability via a Novel Anomaly Detection Method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02273

On the Possible Evolutionary History of the Water Ocean on Venus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04040

Outward Migration of Super-Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05277

August 31, 2021 updates

Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology: From the extraterrestrial intelligence myth to astroethics
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/6855

Closed-form ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01444-7

Characterizing Undetected Stellar Companions with Combined Data Sets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac0ae9

Optimizing Startshot lightsail design: a generative network-based approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12999

Multiple moist climate equilibrium states on arid rocky M-dwarf planets: A last-saturation tracer analysis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12458

Milankovitch Cycles for a Circumstellar Earth-analog within α Centauri-like Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12650

Abiotic molecular oxygen production — ionic pathway from sulphur dioxide
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12672