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 14, 2020 updates

Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system – Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa38187-20/aa38187-20.html

An ATA Search for a Repetition of the Wow Signal
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba58f

A Search for Rotation Periods in 1000 TESS Objects of Interest
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aba73f

What limits photosynthesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the terrestrial biosphere within the Earth system
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005272820301535

The impact of life on climate stabilisation over different timescales
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GC009105

Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: a testbed for cold terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.05467

September 11, 2020 updates

Can Self-Replicating Species Flourish in the Interior of a Star?
https://osf.io/j6gux/

Precision radial velocity measurements by the forward-modeling technique in the near-infrared
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psaa085/5903842

A Search for FeH in Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres with High-Dispersion Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04474

Coupling thermal evolution of planets and hydrodynamic atmospheric escape in MESA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04948

Septermber 10, 2020 updates

Peas in a Pod? Radius Correlations in Kepler Multiplanet Systems
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab9e

Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline. IV. Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate Catalog
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abab0b

Eclipse timing variation of GK Vir: evidence of a possible Jupiter-like planet in a circumbinary orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03978

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

Evidence of Three Mechanisms Explaining the Radius Anomaly of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04291

Stellar Flares versus Luminosity: XUV-induced Atmospheric Escape and Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04310

A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04317

September 8, 2020 updates

First Life in the Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01344

A SETI Survey of the Vela Region using the Murchison Widefield Array: Orders of Magnitude Expansion in Search Space
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03267

An unusually low density ultra-short period super-Earth and three mini-Neptunes around the old star TOI-561
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02332

The quest for planets around subdwarfs and white dwarfs from Kepler space telescope fields: Part I. Techniques and tests of the methods
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02749

The TESS-Keck Survey II: Masses of Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting the Galactic Thick-Disk Star TOI-561
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03071