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 20, 2020 updates

An Exact, Generalized Laplace Resonance in the HR 8799 Planetary System
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb881

Into the UV: The Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b Revealed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08551

OGLE-2018-BLG-0799Lb: a Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet Orbiting a Very Low Mass Dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08732

The Hubble PanCET Program: A Metal-rich Atmosphere for the Inflated Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09659

Masses for Free-Floating Planets and Dwarf Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09671

Numerical Convergence of Hot-Jupiter Atmospheric Flow Solutions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09695

October 19, 2020 updates

The need for laboratory work to aid in the understanding of exoplanetary atmospheres
https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/publications/jw827f98q

Exploring Biogenic Dispersion Inside Star Clusters with System Dynamics Modeling
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202010.0232/v1

Traversable wormholes supported by non-exotic matter in general relativity
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620302499

Hiding Planets behind a Big Friend: Resonant Planets with an Inclined External Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08046

Can Large-Scale Migration Explain the Giant Planet Occurrence Rate?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07949

October 16, 2020 updates

Characterizing the possible interior structures of the nearby Exoplanets Proxima Centauri b and Ross-128 b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3110/5924464

As the Worlds Turn: Constraining Spin Evolution in the Planetary-Mass Regime
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07315

Robust asteroseismic properties of the bright planet host HD 38529
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07323

KMT-2017-BLG-2820 and the Nature of the Free-Floating Planet Population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07527

A likely magnetic activity cycle for the exoplanet host M dwarf GJ 3512
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07715

October 15, 2020 updates

Planetary system LHS 1140 revisited with ESPRESSO and TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa38922-20/aa38922-20.html

The cloudy shape of hot Jupiter thermal phase curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06934

Clouds in Three-Dimensional Models of Hot Jupiters Over a Wide Range of Temperatures I: Thermal Structures and Broadband Phase Curve Predictions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06936

Statistics of the Chemical Composition of Solar Analog Stars and Links to Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07241

Impossible moons — Transit timing effects that cannot be due to an exomoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04230

October 14, 2020 updates

Out of a Silent Planet
https://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/631920838097223680/out-of-a-silent-planet

Abundance measurements of H2O and carbon-bearing species in the atmosphere of WASP-127b confirm its super-solar metallicity
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3116/5922728

Search for radio emission from the exoplanets Qatar-1b and WASP-80b near 150 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06337

Exploring Super-Earth Surfaces: Albedo of Near-Airless Magma Ocean Planets and Topography
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06433

Chemical Fingerprints of Formation in Rocky Super-Earths’ Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06480