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 7, 2020 updates

SETI: the argument for artefact searches
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/seti-the-argument-for-artefact-searches/079216EEA0D45D396C9C139C559840AB

Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium transmission spectrum modelling of HD 209458b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/09/aa37672-20/aa37672-20.html

Conformally symmetric traversable wormholes in f(R,T) gravity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003491620302293

Direct characterization of young giant exoplanets at high spectral resolution by coupling SPHERE and CRIRES+
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01841

Interstellar communication network. II. Deep space nodes with gravitational lensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01866

Astrophysical Simulations and Data Analyses on the Formation, Detection, and Habitability of Moons Around Extrasolar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01881

The Galactic cosmic ray intensity at the evolving Earth and young exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02173

On the origin of the eccentricity dichotomy displayed by compact super-Earths: dynamical heating by cold giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02245

September 3, 2020 updates

Cosmology, astrobiology, and the RNA world: Just add quintessential water
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343858864_Cosmology_astrobiology_and_the_RNA_world_Just_add_quintessential_water

The ExoMolOP Database: Cross-sections and k-tables for Molecules of Interest in High-Temperature Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00687

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Rubidium abundances in nearby cool stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00876

September 2, 2020 updates

Centro de Astrobiología: 20 Years Building Astrobiology
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.0804

The Influence of Stellar Phosphorus On Our Understanding of Exoplanets and Astrobiology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00009

Habitable Zones in Binary Star Systems: A Zoology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00144

On the evolution of global ocean tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00204

The Equatorial Jet Speed on Tidally Locked Planets: I — Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00358