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 6, 2021 updates

Solar evolution and extrema: current state of understanding of long-term solar variability and its planetary impacts
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40645-021-00430-x

Kepler K2 Campaign 9 – I. Candidate short-duration events from the first space-based survey for planetary microlensing
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/505/4/5584/6315707

On the detection of free-floating planets through microlensing towards the Magellanic Clouds
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1907/6316130

The Architecture of Multiplanet Systems as a Tracer of Their Formation Mechanisms
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac0b3d

The Propagation of Strong Shocks into Planetary and Stellar Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01701

July 1, 2021 updates

Dynamical tide in stellar radiative zones – General formalism and evolution for low-mass stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/07/aa40174-20/aa40174-20.html

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets – XVII. A wealth of new objects: Six cool Jupiters, three brown dwarfs, and 16 low-mass binary stars
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/07/aa40712-21/aa40712-21.html

Disequilibrium Chemistry in Exoplanet Atmospheres Observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abfdad

The California Legacy Survey. I. A Catalog of 178 Planets from Precision Radial Velocity Monitoring of 719 Nearby Stars over Three Decades
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/abe23c

Looking for Astrometric Signals below 20 m s−1: A Jupiter-mass Planet Signature in ε Eri
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac0f59

Rotation periods of TESS Objects of Interest from the Magellan-TESS Survey with multiband photometry from Evryscope and TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15638

Catwoman: A transit modelling Python package for asymmetric light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15643

Constraining mornings & evenings on distant worlds: a new semi-analytical approach and prospects with transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15687

June 30, 2021 updates

Conceptual discussion around the notion of the human being as an inter and multiplanetary species
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/conceptual-discussion-around-the-notion-of-the-human-being-as-an-inter-and-multiplanetary-species/15B38A98CE1C27A58D4AE41778B91054

Cometary Panspermia — Overcoming Cultural Constraints
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S266133952130001X

Metastable Helium Absorptions with 3D Hydrodynamics and Self-consistent Photochemistry. I. WASP-69b, Dimensionality, X-Ray and UV Flux Level, Spectral Types, and Flares
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abf1ee/meta

Self-stabilizing curved metasurfaces as a sail for light-propelled spacecrafts
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-29-14-21562

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – Two terrestrial planets orbiting G 264–012 and one terrestrial planet orbiting Gl 393
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/06/aa40633-21/aa40633-21.html

The History and Origins of Directed Panspermia
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac0f5a

Metalaw – What is it good for?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521003362

A Pilot Radio Search for Magnetic Activity in Directly Imaged Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14994

A Dyson Sphere around a black hole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15181

GMRT observations of the exoplanetary systems τ Boötis and 55 Cancri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15246

An inventory of atomic species in the atmosphere of WASP-121b using UVES high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.15394