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 8, 2020 updates

Multidimensional Habitability: Exploring the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
https://www.academia.edu/33461406/Multidimensional_Habitability_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Life_Beyond_Earth

Antimatter Propulsion
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001904.pdf

Atmospheric convection plays a key role in the climate of tidally-locked terrestrial exoplanets: insights from high-resolution simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03007

Tidal Oscillations of Rotating Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03094

Optical to near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03551

April 7, 2020 updates

Sulfur-driven haze formation in warm CO2-rich exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1072-9

Formation of secondary atmospheres on terrestrial planets by late disk accretion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1050-2

Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10 830 Å in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37175-19/aa37175-19.html

Extremely long convergence times in a 3D GCM simulation of the sub-Neptune Gliese 1214b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01829

Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov exhibits a structure similar to native Solar System comets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02033

Exomoon indicators in high-precision transit light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02259

April 3, 2020 updates

Interstellar Comet Borisov is no longer in one piece
https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-two-pieces.html

Is there Na I in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? – Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37221-19/aa37221-19.html

Earth’s Polar Night Boundary Layer as an Analog for Dark Side Inversions on Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7fb3

WASP-4 is Accelerating Toward the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00637

Tidal friction in satellites and planets. The new version of the creep tide theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01109