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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April 26, 2021 updates

Understanding Pulsars and Space Navigations
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811610660

Reanalysis of the Mars500 experiment reveals common gut microbiome alterations in astronauts induced by long-duration confinement
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037021001306

Inverse Design of Diffractive Relativistic Meta‐Sails via Multi‐Objective Optimization
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adts.202100047

Chance, Calculation and Life
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119823971

Direct imaging and spectroscopy of exoplanets with the ELT/HARMONI high-contrast module
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11251

Inclination-type resonance in two-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11611

Dry or water world? How the water contents of inner sub-Neptunes constrain giant planet formation and the location of the water ice line
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11631

April 23, 2021 updates

Formation of Earth-sized planets within the Kepler-1647 System Habitable Zone
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1165/6247605

Color Classification of Earth-like Planets with Machine Learning
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1144/6247611

First Space Colony: What Political System Could We Expect?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964621000187

HST PanCET Program: A Complete Near-UV to Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Hot Jupiter WASP-79b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10688

On the reliability of simulations of collisional stellar systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10843

Chemical composition of stars with massive planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10894

April 21, 2021 updates

Discovery of an Extremely Short Duration Flare from Proxima Centauri Using Millimeter through Far-ultraviolet Observations
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abf14c

Interstellar communication network. III. Locating deep space nodes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09564

Inferring Exoplanet Disequilibria with Multivariate Information in Atmospheric Reaction Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09776

How to identify exoplanet surfaces using atmospheric trace species in hydrogen-dominated atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09843

Precision Millimeter Astrometry of the α Centauri AB System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10086

April 20, 2021 updates

Introducing physical warp drives
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/abdf6e

Searching for Extragalactic Exoplanetary Systems: the Curious Case of BD+20 2457
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08306

Evidence of energy-, recombination-, and photon-limited escape regimes in giant planet H/He atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08832

Photon-Inter-Correlation Optical Communication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08913

Phase curve pollution of exoplanet transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08979

The traditional approximation of rotation for rapidly rotating stars and planets. I. The impact of strong deformation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09302