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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July 9, 2020 updates

Planetary mass–radius relations across the galaxy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa36916-19/aa36916-19.html

The corona of GJ 1151 in the context of star-planet interaction
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1982/5869252

Persistent Starspot Signals on M Dwarfs: Multiwavelength Doppler Observations with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder and Keck/HIRES
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab989f

Very wide companion fraction from Gaia DR2: a weak or no enhancement for hot jupiter hosts, and a strong enhancement for contact binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03688

Investigating Extra-solar Planetary System Qatar-1 through Transit Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03753

Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally-Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04172

July 8, 2020 updates

A systematic study of CO2 planetary atmospheres and their link to the stellar environment
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1929/5868818

Cometary panspermia and origin of life?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065266020300067

The efficient Lamarckian spread of life in the cosmos
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0065266020300079

Photonic Metasurfaces as Relativistic Light Sails for Doppler‐Broadened Stable Beam‐Riding and Radiative Cooling
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lpor.201900311

Arid or Cloudy: Characterizing the Atmosphere of the super-Earth 55 Cancri e using High-Resolution Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03115

A review of possible planetary atmospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03334

Habitability of the early Earth: Liquid water under a faint young Sun facilitated by strong tidal heating due to a nearby Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03423

Sailing Towards the Stars Close to the Speed of Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03530

The Cathedral and the Starship: Learning from the Middle Ages for Future Long-Duration Projects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03654

Terrestrial Planets Comparative Climatology (TPCC) mission concept
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03049

A search for rotation periods in 1000 TESS objects of interest
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03079

July 7, 2020 updates

The GAPS programme at TNG – XXII. The GIARPS view of the extended helium atmosphere of HD 189733 b accounting for stellar activity
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37644-20/aa37644-20.html

Evidence for a high mutual inclination between the cold Jupiter and transiting super Earth orbiting π Men
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01871

High-resolution Spectra for a Wide Range of Habitable Zone Planets around Sun-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02420

Hurricanes on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets: Fixed SST Experiments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02560

The Exoplanet Perspective on Future Ice Giant Exploration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02651

A temperature inversion with atomic iron in the ultra-hot dayside atmosphere of WASP-189b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02716

The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey XI. Possible detection of Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere of the Saturn-mass planet WASP-69b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02741

On the Chemical Abundance of HR 8799 and the Planet c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02810

July 6, 2020 updates

Is the Faint Young Sun Problem for Earth Solved?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00711-9

Dust size and spatial distributions in debris discs: predictions for exozodiacal dust dragged in from an exo-Kuiper belt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01313

Losing Oceans: The Effects of Composition on the Thermal Component of Impact-driven Atmospheric Loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01446

Impact of Tides on the Potential for Exoplanets to Host Exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01487

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) V. Detection of sodium on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-166b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01783

July 3, 2020 updates

A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37394-19/aa37394-19.html

The Hubble Space Telescope PanCET Program: An Optical to Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HAT-P-32Ab
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab96cb

The Star Tug: An active stellar engine capable of accelerating a star to relativistic velocities
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520304239

The K2 & TESS Synergy I: Updated Ephemerides and Parameters for K2-114, K2-167, K2-237, & K2-261
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00678

Tracing bulk elemental ratios in exoplanetary atmospheres with TiO chemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01066

Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system. Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01081