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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May 24, 2021 updates

Identifying molecules as biosignatures with assembly theory and mass spectrometry
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23258-x

A simple analysis of earthlike exoplanets
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351744403_A_simple_analysis_of_earthlike_exoplanets

On planetary systems as ordered sequences
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09966

The Detectability of Nightside City Lights on Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09990

Radius and mass distribution of ultra-short period planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10001

On the formation of terrestrial planets between two massive planets: The case of 55 Cancri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10105

Detection of Fe and evidence for TiO in the dayside emission spectrum of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10230

The Featureless HST/WFC3 Transmission Spectrum of the Rocky Exoplanet GJ 1132b: No Evidence For A Cloud-Free Primordial Atmosphere and Constraints on Starspot Contamination
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10487

May 21, 2021 updates

Induced Torpor as a Countermeasure for Low Dose Radiation Exposure in a Zebrafish Model
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/10/4/906

Transit Search for Exoplanets around Alpha Centauri A and B with ASTERIA
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf2c0

OGLE-2017-BLG-1434Lb: Confirmation of a Cold Super-Earth Using Keck Adaptive Optics
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abfda3

Differentiating Modern and Prebiotic Earth Scenarios for TRAPPIST-1e: High-resolution Transmission Spectra and Predictions for JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09319

A Preponderance of Perpendicular Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09327

Orbital Decay of Short-Period Exoplanets via Tidal Resonance Locking
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09335

‘Oumuamua as a light sail — evidence against artificial origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09435

Multi-band transit follow up observations of five hot-Jupiters with critical noise treatments: Improved physical properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09668

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://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09741

Constraints on the nearby exoplanet ε Ind Ab from deep near/mid-infrared imaging limits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09773

May 20, 2021 updates

Gaseous atomic nickel in the coma of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03485-4

TKS X: Confirmation of TOI-1444b and a Comparative Analysis of the Ultra-short-period Planets with Hot Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08844

Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09055

The Earth-like Galactic cosmic ray intensity in the habitable zone of the M dwarf GJ 436
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09251

Ultra Short Period Planets in K2 III: Neighbors are Common with 13 New Multi-Planet Systems and 10 Newly Validated Planets in Campaigns 0-8, 10
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11698

May 19, 2021 updates

TOI-1231 b: A Temperate, Neptune-Sized Planet Transiting the Nearby M3 Dwarf NLTT 24399
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08077

Detectability of Artificial Lights from Proxima b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08081

Joint Analysis of Multicolor Photometry: A New Approach to Constrain the Nature of Multiple-Star Systems Hosting Exoplanet Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08223

A fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making approach for Exo-Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08375

MOA-2006-BLG-074: recognizing xallarap contaminants in planetary microlensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08386

TIC 172900988: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet Detected in One Sector of TESS Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08614

May 18, 2021 updates

We Come in Peace? A Rational Approach to METI
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964621000229

Atomic-scale mixing between MgO and H2O in the deep interiors of water-rich planets
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01368-2

Expanded Capability of the Breakthrough Listen Parkes Data Recorder for Observations with the UWL Receiver
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac00c1

Impacts of Water Latent Heat on the Thermal Structure of Ultra-Cool Objects: Brown Dwarfs and Free-Floating Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07000

Stellar Activity Manifesting at a One Year Alias Explains Barnard b as a False Positive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07005

A Tidal Origin for a 3-body Resonance in Kepler-221
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07368

Variable Irradiation on 1D Cloudless Eccentric Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08009