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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July 31, 2020 updates

Search for TiO and Optical Nightside Emission from the Exoplanet WASP-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e77

Physical Characterization of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9df8

Integrating Machine Learning for Planetary Science: Perspectives for the Next Decade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15129

A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15287

Atmospheric Dynamics of Hot Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15363

LBT transmission spectroscopy of HAT-P-12b: confirmation of a cloudy atmosphere with no significant alkali features
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15485

Exoplanets Sciences with Nulling Interferometers and a Single-Mode Fiber-Fed Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15529

Colors of an Earth-like exoplanet — Temporal flux and polarization signals of the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15624

July 30, 2020 updates

PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9e73

Analytic Stability Maps of Unknown Exoplanet Companions for Imaging Prioritization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9b21

Exploring the Atmospheric Dynamics of the Extreme Ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b Using TESS Photometry
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba2cb

Hurricane Genesis is Favorable on Terrestrial Exoplanets Orbiting Late-type M Dwarf Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aba0b9

Laboratory Demonstration of Spatial Linear Dark Field Control For Imaging Extrasolar Planets in Reflected Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14413

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems: Eccentricity and Mutual Inclination Distributions of AMD-Stable Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14473

A Volatile-Poor Formation of LHS 3844b based on its Lack of Significant Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14493

July 29, 2020 updates

When “Boring” Stars Flare: The Ultraviolet Activity of GJ 887, a Bright M Star Hosting Newly Discovered Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aba94a

Novel instellation calculations for close-in exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343201369_Novel_instellation_calculations_for_close-in_exoplanets

The Importance of Prioritizing Exoplanet Experimental Facilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13924

TESS Reveals a Short-period Sub-Neptune Sibling (HD 86226c) to a Known Long-period Giant Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13927

KELT-17: a chemically peculiar Am star and a hot-Jupiter planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.14210

Demarcating circulation regimes of synchronously rotating terrestrial planets within the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.00435

July 28, 2020 updates

Low-cost precursor of an interstellar mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12814

ZigZag: A Memory-Centric Rapid DNN Accelerator Design Space Exploration Framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11360

The Evolutionary Track of H/He Envelopes of the Observed Population of Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9a4d

Non-detection of Helium in the Upper Atmospheres of Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12968

Dynamical evolution of two-planet systems and its connection with white dwarf atmospheric pollution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13009

Bayesian Dynamic Mapping of an Exo-Earth from Photometric Variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13096

Observing transiting exoplanets with the MicroObservatory: 43 new transit light curves of the hot Jupiter HAT-P-32b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13381

Efficiency of tidal dissipation in slowly rotating fully convective stars or planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13392

Detection of Na in WASP-21b’s lower and upper atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13429

Unified simulations of planetary formation and atmospheric evolution II: Rapid disk clearing by photoevaporation yields low-mass super-Earth atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13717

EUV irradiation of exoplanet atmospheres occurs on Gyr timescales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13731

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time. XI. The Orbit and Radiation Environment of the Young M Dwarf-Hosted Planet K2-25b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12701

Planetary candidates transiting cool dwarf stars from Campaigns 12 to 15 of K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12744

The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12766

July 27, 2020 updates

Identifying Exoplanets Using Deep Learning and Predicting Their Likelihood of Habitability
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-5243-4_34

Alfnoor: A Retrieval Simulation of the Ariel Target List
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9a53

Limits on the orbits of possible exomoons around Kepler giant planets in the habitable zone
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319300182

Thermal and orbital evolution of low-mass exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12459

Exobodies in Our Back Yard: Science from Missions to Nearby Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12480

Habitability of M dwarfs is a problem for the traditional SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12645