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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November 3, 2020 updates

The widest broadband transmission spectrum (0.38–1.71 μm) of HD 189733b from ground-based chromatic Rossiter–McLaughlin observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39213-20/aa39213-20.html

The eccentricity distribution of giant planets and their relation to super-Earths in the pebble accretion scenario
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/11/aa38856-20/aa38856-20.html

Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: A Test Bed for Cold Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb8df

Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modeling
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba30

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. IV. Removing Stellar Activity Signals from Radial Velocity Measurements Using Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00003

Separating planetary reflex Doppler shifts from stellar variability in the wavelength domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00018

The Three Dimensional Flow Field Around Planets on Eccentric Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00022

A new perspective on interiors of ice-rich planets: Ice-rock mixture rather than a layered structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00602

Evaluating the Effect of Four Unknown Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907

November 2, 2020 updates

Curvature Invariants for the Alcubierre and Natário Warp Drives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13693

Space travel by reduced effective mass after induced matter theory
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4171

Design Reference Mission Development for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Enabled Science Missions
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4126

Laser Fusion Propulsion using Extreme CPA-Laser Pulses for Boron Fusion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4081

A Future for Leptonic Fuels
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4204

The Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Engine – Nacelle Concept and Development Roadmap
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4082

In-Space Fabrication and Growth of Affordable Large Interior Rotating Habitats
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4193

The Concept of Developmental Relativity: Thoughts on the Technological Synchrony of Interstellar Civilizations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964620300333

Thresholds in origin of life scenarios
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220309536

Evolutionary History of Bioessential Elements Can Guide the Search for Life in the Universe
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.202000500

TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two small warm planets orbiting inactive M dwarfs, found by \textit{TESS}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15905

Lessons Learned from the 1st ARIEL Machine Learning Challenge: Correcting Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves for Stellar Spots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15996

HAT-P-68b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Around a K5 Dwarf Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16026

October 30, 2020 updates

Atmospheric Nitrogen When Life Evolved on Earth
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2212

WASP-127b: A misaligned planet with a partly cloudy atmosphere and tenuous sodium signature seen by ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15143

Temperature inversions on hot super-Earths: the case of CN in nitrogen-rich atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15152

Science Extraction from TESS Observations of Known Exoplanet Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15164

Survivor bias: divergent fates of the Solar System’s ejected vs. persisting planetesimals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15147

WASP-186 and WASP-187: two hot Jupiters discovered by SuperWASP and SOPHIE with additional observations by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15205

Effects of capturing a wide-orbit planet on planetary systems: system stability and Habitable Zone bombardment rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15448

October 29, 2020 updates

Hurricanes on tidally locked terrestrial planets: fixed surface temperature experiments
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38203-20/aa38203-20.html

An Integrated Analysis with Predictions on the Architecture of the tau Ceti Planetary System, Including a Habitable Zone Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14675

EXPRES. II. Searching for Planets Around Active Stars: A Case Study of HD 101501
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14717

The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable Zone Planets Around Solar-Like Stars from Kepler Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14812

HADES RV Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XII. The abundance signature of M dwarf stars with planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14867

Tidally induced stellar oscillations: converting modelled oscillations excited by hot Jupiters into observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15053

Hydrogen dominated atmospheres on terrestrial mass planets: evidence, origin and evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15091

Effects of the stellar wind on the Ly-alpha transit of close-in planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15094

October 28, 2020 updates

Transmission spectroscopy and Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of the young Neptune orbiting AU Mic
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38583-20/aa38583-20.html

Excalibur: A Non-Parametric, Hierarchical Wavelength-Calibration Method for a Precision Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13786

Modelling the atmosphere of lava planet K2-141b: implications for low and high resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14101

The large-scale magnetic field of Proxima Centauri near activity maximum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14311

Atmosphere Models of Brown Dwarfs Irradiated by White Dwarfs: Analogues for Hot and Ultra-Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14319

Revisiting migration in a disc cavity to explain the high eccentricities of warm Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14425

TOI-954 b and EPIC 246193072 b: Short-Period Saturn-Mass Planets that Test Whether Irradiation Leads to Inflation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14436

Breve historia de la astrobiología en Argentina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13883