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 2, 2021 updates

Atmospheric Technosignatures: Searching for Intelligent Life in Alien Skies
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e1e52526fe19076661d2a77/t/600638f0825cad7378ca8eeb/1611020536262/

Damage to Relativistic Interstellar Spacecraft by ISM Impact Gas Accumulation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd4ec/meta

Atmospheric characterization of hot Jupiters using hierarchical models of Spitzer observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00010

An ultra-short-period transiting super-Earth orbiting the M3 dwarf TOI-1685
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01016

March 1, 2021 updates

Space Development Futures: Spacefaring Infrastructures of Indifferently Spacefaring Civilizations
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/02/26/space-development-futures-spacefaring-infrastructures-of-indifferently-spacefaring-civilizations/

Hyperspeed penetrator to deliver research equipment to interstellar wanderers
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/5.0038658

Diurnal Variability and Detectability of Vegetation Red Edge of Earth-like Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd6ff

Finding Signs of Life in Transits: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth-line Planets around FGKM Host Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe634

Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457652100103X

TechnoClimes
https://technoclimes.org/

Characteristics of aquatic biospheres on temperate planets around Sun-like stars and M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14387

February 24, 2021 updates

OGLE-2018-BLG-1428Lb: a Jupiter-mass planet beyond the snow line of a dwarf star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11463

Mass and density of the transiting hot and rocky super-Earth LHS 1478 b (TOI-1640 b)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11640

Oxygen as a control over 2.4 billion years of Earth’s atmospheric evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11675

Cloud property trends in hot and ultra-hot giant gas planets (WASP-43b, WASP-103b, WASP-121b, HAT-P-7b, and WASP-18b)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11688

The rotational and divergent components of atmospheric circulation on tidally locked planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11760