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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June 8, 2020 updates

A Complex Life Habitable Zone Based On Lipid Solubility Theory
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-64436-z

Transit least-squares survey – III. A 1.9 R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/06/aa36929-19/aa36929-19.html

An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrival
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/22/11995

Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA027639

Ignition and burn in a hybrid nuclear fuel for a pulsed rocket engine
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302083

June 5, 2020 updates

Transiting Exoplanet Discovery Using Machine Learning Techniques: A Survey
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12145-020-00464-7

Exoplanet Detection and Its Dependence on Stochastic Sampling of the Stellar Initial Mass Function
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8e39

WISEA J083011.95+283716.0: A Missing Link Planetary-mass Object
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8d25

Transit Analysis of Exoplanets TrES-5 b and WASP-43 b with the EXOplanet Transit Interpretation Code
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab98f5

Exoplanet secondary atmosphere loss and revival
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02589

June 4, 2020 updates

Fear the Shadows of the Giants: On Secular Perturbations in Circumstellar Habitable Zones of Double Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9104

Hints of a Population of Solar System Analog Planets from ALMA
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab94a8

Atmosphere loss in planet-planet collisions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01881

Giant impacts stochastically change the internal pressures of terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01992

Transit least-squares survey — III. A 1.9R⊕ transit candidate in the habitable zone of Kepler-160 and a nontransiting planet characterized by transit-timing variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02123

June 3, 2020 updates

A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) – II. Search for exoplanets in open clusters of the southern ecliptic hemisphere and their frequency
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1465/5850378

Maunder’s Work on Planetary Habitability in 1913: Early Use of the term “Habitable Zone” and a “Drake Equation” Calculation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9831

Outburst and Splitting of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01242

Four Jovian planets around low-luminosity giant stars observed by the EXPRESS and PPPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01277

Estimation of the Total Mass of 10 Exoplanets and their Host Stars Based on the Primary Transit Method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01583

Radius Study of Ten Transiting Hot Jupiter Exoplanets with Ground-Based Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01591

Period Study by the Transit Method with Ground-Based Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01587

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Measuring precise radial velocities in the near infrared: the example of the super-Earth CD Cet b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01684

Theoretical Studies of Comets in the 55 Cancri System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01711

The Fate of Binary Stars Hosting Planets upon Interaction with Sgr A* Black hole
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01807

Reworking the SETI Paradox: METI’s Place on the Continuum of Astrobiological Signaling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01167

June 2, 2020 updates

Challenges in Scientific Data Communication from Low-Mass Interstellar Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07778

On the role of reduced wind mass-loss rate in enabling exoplanets to shape planetary nebulae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09077

Near-Infrared Transit Photometry of Extra-Solar Planet HAT-P-54b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00220

Probing Transit Timing Variation and its Possible Origin with Twelve New Transits of TrES-3b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00599

Masses for the seven planets in K2-32 and K2-233. Four diverse planets in resonant chain and the first young rocky worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01102