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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March 16, 2021 updates

Classification of the Biogenicity of Complex Organic Mixtures for the Detection of Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/11/3/234

The Voyage of Metals in the Universe from Cosmological to Planetary Scales: the need for a Very High-Resolution, High Throughput Soft X-ray Spectrometer
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09710-2

Water on Hot Rocky Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe7dc

Harnessing the power of CNNs for unevenly-sampled light-curves using Markov Transition Field
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133721000159

Broadband stability of the Habitable Zone Planet Finder Fabry-Pérot etalon calibration system: evidence for chromatic variation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08456

Ariel Planetary Interiors White Paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08481

March 15, 2021 updates

Detecting Atmospheric Molecules of Nontransiting Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets Using High-resolution Spectroscopy in the Mid-infrared Domain
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abe129

Precise Dynamical Masses and Orbital Fits for beta Pic β and β Pic c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abdc2e

Chemical variation with altitude and longitude on exo-Neptunes: Predictions for Ariel phase-curve observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07023

Evidence for disequilibrium chemistry from vertical mixing in hot Jupiter atmospheres. A comprehensive survey of transiting close-in gas giant exoplanets with warm-Spitzer/IRAC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07185

From the SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation to the search for Type-I civilizations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07227

March 12, 2021 updates

Phase-curve Pollution of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abe048

History and future of the Martian dynamo and implications of a hypothetical solid inner core
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006663

Analytic Light Curves in Reflected Light: Phase Curves, Occultations, and Non-Lambertian Scattering for Spherical Planets and Moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06275

Analytical tolerancing of segmented telescope co-phasing for exo-Earth high-contrast imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06288

Triggering A Climate Change Dominated “Anthropocene”: Is It Common Among Exocivilizations?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06330

March 11, 2021 updates

The Interstellar Downlink Principles and Current Work
https://i4is.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/jid_20210201_principium.pdf

All-sky visible and near infrared space astrometry
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-021-09705-z

Normal forms for the Laplace resonance
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-021-10008-w

Modelling the projected separation of microlensing events using systematic time-series feature engineering
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213133721000147

Detection of an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05657

Gemini/GMOS Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-121b: signs of variability in an ultra-hot Jupiter?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05698

NEMESIS: Exoplanet Transit Survey of Nearby M-Dwarfs in TESS FFIs I
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05647

March 10, 2021 updates

A Stationary Drake Equation Distribution as a Balance of Birth-death Processes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abeb7b

Spatially resolved spectroscopy across stellar surfaces. V. Observational prospects: Toward Earth-like exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04996

A Harsh Test of Far-Field Scrambling with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder and the Hobby Eberly Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05148

Oumuamua Is Not a Probe Sent to our Solar System by an Alien Civilization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05559

Warp drive basics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05610