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 6, 2021 updates

High-Accuracy Thrust Measurements of the EMDrive and Elimination of False-Positive Effects
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350108418_High-Accuracy_Thrust_Measurements_of_the_EMDrive_and_Elimination_of_False-Positive_Effects

Evolutionary Panspermia: Planets Micro-Life and Beyond
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349704978_Evolutionary_Panspermia_Planets_Micro-Life_and_Beyond

Efficiency of the oxygenic photosynthesis on Earth-like planets in the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01425

Of Aliens and Exoplanets: Why the search for life, probably, requires the search for water
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01683

Warm Jupiters in TESS Full-Frame Images: A Catalog and Observed Eccentricity Distribution for Year 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01970

High pCO2 reduces sensitivity to CO2 perturbations on temperate, Earth-like planets throughout most of habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01224

April 5, 2021 updates

Solar Sail Propulsion by 2050: An Enabling Capability for Heliophysics Missions
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/pdf/4009.pdf

NASA’s Space Launch System Capabilities for Ultra-High C3 Missions
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/helio2050/pdf/4057.pdf

Ectogenesis for survival in deep space and deep time: reply to Gale and Wandel
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/ectogenesis-for-survival-in-deep-space-and-deep-time-reply-to-gale-and-wandel/0F9D05DD3756DA66799658F8959C1775

Near-term self-replicating probes – A concept design
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652100117X

Astrobiology of life on Earth
https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.15499

Magnetic and tidal migration of close-in planets. Influence of secular evolution on their population
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01004

TRAPPIST Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI) workshop report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01091

March 31, 2021 updates

Unusual polarimetric properties for interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22000-x

The Diversity of Planetary Atmospheric Chemistry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-021-00810-1

General Observer Programs in Cycle 1 (JWST)
https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-programs/cycle-1-go

Hot Jupiters, cold kinematics: High phase space densities of host stars reflect an age bias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15823

Tilting Planets During Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15843

Calibration of residual aberrations in exoplanet imagers with large numbers of degrees of freedom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15844

Spin Dynamics of Extrasolar Giant Planets in Planet-Planet Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15902

On the multiscale behaviour of stellar activity and rotation of the planet host Kepler-30
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15921

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: MeerKAT Target Selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16250

The influence of surface CO2 condensation on the evolution of warm and cold rocky planets orbiting Sun-like stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16315

Planet-induced radio emission from the coronae of M dwarfs: the case of Prox Cen and AU Mic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.16318