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 4, 2021 updates

Origins Space Telescope science drivers to design traceability
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-7/issue-1/011012/Origins-Space-Telescope-science-drivers-to-design-traceability/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.011012.full

Evo-SETI: Life Evolution Statistics on Earth and Exoplanets
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030519308

Hemispheric Tectonics on LHS 3844b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe400

Semiempirical Modeling of the Atmospheres of the M Dwarf Exoplanet Hosts GJ 832 and GJ 581
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd62f

Experimental investigation of Mach-Effect thrusters on torsion balances
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521001119

Exoplanet Statistics and Theoretical Implications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02127

The Impact of Stellar Clustering on the Observed Multiplicity and Orbital Periods of Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01974

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) Technology Demonstration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01980

March 2, 2021 updates

Atmospheric Technosignatures: Searching for Intelligent Life in Alien Skies
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e1e52526fe19076661d2a77/t/600638f0825cad7378ca8eeb/1611020536262/

Damage to Relativistic Interstellar Spacecraft by ISM Impact Gas Accumulation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd4ec/meta

Atmospheric characterization of hot Jupiters using hierarchical models of Spitzer observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00010

An ultra-short-period transiting super-Earth orbiting the M3 dwarf TOI-1685
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01016

March 1, 2021 updates

Space Development Futures: Spacefaring Infrastructures of Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/02/26/space-development-futures-spacefaring-infrastructures-of-indifferently-spacefaring-civilizations/

Hyperspeed penetrator to deliver research equipment to interstellar wanderers
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/5.0038658

Diurnal Variability and Detectability of Vegetation Red Edge of Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd6ff

Finding Signs of Life in Transits: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth-line Planets around FGKM Host Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe634

Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652100103X

TechnoClimes
https://technoclimes.org/

Characteristics of aquatic biospheres on temperate planets around Sun-like stars and M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14387