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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March 24, 2021 updates

Pandora Mission Would Expand NASA’s Capabilities in Probing Alien Worlds
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/pandora-mission-would-expand-nasa-s-capabilities-in-probing-alien-worlds

Three-dimensional Climate Simulations for the Detectability of Proxima Centauri b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdeb4

SOAR TESS Survey. II: The impact of stellar companions on planetary populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12076

TransitFit: an exoplanet transit fitting package for multi-telescope datasets and its application to WASP-127~b, WASP-91~b, and WASP-126~b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12139

The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12538

March 23, 2021 updates

Thrust Measurements and Evaluation of Asymmetric Infrared Laser Resonators for Space Propulsion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350108417_Thrust_Measurements_and_Evaluation_of_Asymmetric_Infrared_Laser_Resonators_for_Space_Propulsion

Kinematics of the Interstellar Vagabond 1I/‘Oumuamua (A/2017 U1)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017RNAAS…1…21M/abstract

The ‘‘Detectability Window’’ Method to Take into Account Observational Selection in the Statistics of Exoplanets Discovered through Radial Velocity Measurements
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773721010059

Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10 830 Å in the atmospheres of HD 189733 b and GJ 3470 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/03/aa39417-20/aa39417-20.html

Climate Change of over 20 °C Induced by Continental Movement on a Synchronously Rotating Exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abebe6

On the Period-Ratio-Mass-Ratio Correlation of Extra-Solar Multi-Planet Systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621000348

PCS — A Roadmap for Exoearth Imaging with the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11196

Galactic internet made possible by star gravitational lensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11483

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper I: OGLE-2019-BLG-1053Lb, A Buried Terrestrial Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11880

March 22, 2021 updates

Our pale blue dot-are there other homes for us in our galaxy?
https://osf.io/634mw/

A photonic solution to interstellar propulsion 1: Hierarchical phase sensing and control for 10^8 optical emitters
https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/upcoming_pdf.cfm?id=414593

A Drake Equation for Alien Artifacts
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2364

Boyajian’s Star B: The Co-moving Companion to KIC 8462852 A
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdd33

PyLightcurve-torch: a transit modeling package for deep learning applications in PyTorch
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/abe6e8

March 19, 2021 updates

Insoluble Organic Matter in Chondrites: Archetypal Melanin-Like PAH-Based Multifunctionality at the Origin of Life?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064521000130

Transiting Planetary Candidates from the K2 Campaign 0 using the PSF method
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621000336

The Hubble PanCET program: Long-term chromospheric evolution and flaring activity of the M dwarf host GJ 3470
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09864

Exploring terrestrial lightning parameterisations for exoplanets and brown dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10155

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs, No evidence for a super-Earth in a 2-day orbit around GJ 1151
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10216

NGTS 15b, 16b, 17b and 18b: four hot Jupiters from the Next Generation Transit Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10302

Lost in space? Relativistic interstellar navigation using an astrometric star catalogue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10389

The GAPS programme at TNG XXX. Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and atmospheric dynamics of KELT-20b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10395

Lightning on exoplanets and brown dwarfs: Modelling and detection of lightning signatures throughout the electromagnetic spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.10398

Scheduling strategies for the ESPRESSO follow-up of TESS targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14008

March 18, 2021 updates

JWST moving towards October launch
https://spacenews.com/jwst-moving-towards-october-launch/

Exoplanet Detection in Starshade Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09385

Exploiting the transit timing capabilities of Ariel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09239

Improved Contrast in Images of Exoplanets using Direct SNR Optimization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09252

Life as the Only Reason for the Existence of N2-O2-Dominated Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09264

Water Ice Cloud Variability & Multi-Epoch Transmission Spectra of TRAPPIST-1e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09313

Starshade Exoplanet Data Challenge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09359

The role of planetary interior in the long-term evolution of atmospheric CO2 on Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09505

HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIII. A sub-Neptune around the M dwarf GJ 720 A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09643