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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October 27, 2020 updates

Transit timing variation signature of planet migration: the case of K2-24
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39038-20/aa39038-20.html

Rotational spectral modulation of cloudless atmospheres for L/T brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/11/aa38771-20/aa38771-20.html

The MKID Exoplanet Camera for Subaru SCExAO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12620

Insights into the planetary dynamics of HD 206893 with ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12582

Light-Curve Evolution due to Secular Dynamics and the Vanishing Transits of KOI 120.01
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13051

Dynamical evolution of a young planetary system: stellar flybys in co-planar orbital configuration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13181

A Framework for Relative Biosignature Yields from Future Direct Imaging Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13762

October 26, 2020 updates

Dynamical evolution of a young planetary system: stellar flybys in co-planar orbital configuration
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-020-03885-4

Spitzer Reveals Evidence of Molecular Absorption in the Atmosphere of the Hot Neptune LTT 9779b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abbc70

Phase Curves of Hot Neptune LTT 9779b Suggest a High-metallicity Atmosphere
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abbc71

Search for planets in hot Jupiter systems with multi-sector TESS photometry. I. No companions in planetary systems KELT-18, KELT-23, KELT-24, Qatar-8, WASP-62, WASP-100, WASP-119, and WASP-126
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11977

Coexistence of CH4, CO2 and H2O in exoplanet atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12241

Evolution of a migrating giant planet in the presence of an inclined binary companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.12296

October 23, 2020 updates

Connecting planet formation and astrochemistry – C/Os and N/Os of warm giant planets and Jupiter analogues
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa38767-20/aa38767-20.html

Mapping the “long tail” of research funding: A topic analysis of NSF grant proposals in the division of astronomical sciences
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pra2.276

Do instabilities in high-multiplicity systems explain the existence of close-in white dwarf planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11403

Radial-velocity search and statistical studies for short-period planets in the Pleiades open cluster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11577

Tidal Dissipation in Dual-Body, Highly Eccentric, and Non-synchronously Rotating Systems: Applications to Pluto-Charon and the Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11801

The nature and origins of sub-Neptune size planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11867

October 22, 2020 updates

Stellar clustering shapes the architecture of planetary systems
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2800-0

Giant Planets, Tiny Stars: Producing Short-Period Planets around White Dwarfs with the Eccentric Kozai-Lidov Mechanism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10534

Gemini Planet Imager Spectroscopy of the Dusty Substellar Companion HD 206893 B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10546

Did life originate from low-temperature areas of the Universe?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10905

October 21, 2020 updates

Which stars can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet?
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/499/1/L111/5931805

The K2 and TESS Synergy. I. Updated Ephemerides and Parameters for K2-114, K2-167, K2-237, and K2-261
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba964

Exoplanets and the Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09878

Revealing Short-period Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs in the Galactic Bulge using the Microlensing Xallarap Effect with the \textit{Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10315

Orbital Eccentricity — Multiplicity Correlation for Planetary Systems and Comparison to the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.10371

WD 1856 b: a close giant planet around a white dwarf that could have survived a common-envelope phase
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09747