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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June 18, 2020 updates

Forecasting Rates of Volcanic Activity on Terrestrial Exoplanets and Implications for Cryovolcanic Activity on Extrasolar Ocean Worlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab9504

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: A 3.95–8.00 GHz Search for Radio Technosignatures in the Restricted Earth Transit Zone
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab9361

An Update on the Student Exoplanet Programme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09552

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Variability of the He I line at 10830 Å
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09372

Retrieving scattering clouds and disequilibrium chemistry in the atmosphere of HR 8799e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09394

GJ 273: On the formation, dynamical evolution and habitability of a planetary system hosted by an M dwarf at 3.75 parsec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09403

Small Sensitivity of the Simulated Climate of Tidally Locked Aquaplanets to Model Resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09579

TESS unveils the optical phase curve of KELT-1b. Thermal emission and ellipsoidal variation from the brown dwarf companion, and activity from the star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09750

Extending the Breakthrough Listen nearby star survey to other stellar objects in the field
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09756

June 17, 2020 updates

Principles of Pulsar Space Navigation
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920070057

Searching for thermal inversion agents in the transmission spectrum of KELT-20b/MASCARA-2b: detection of neutral iron and ionised calcium H&K lines
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/496/1/504/5856007

Simultaneous Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of a Terrestrial, Habitable-zone Exoplanet with Two Ground-based Multiobject Spectrographs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab935f

Directly imaged exoplanets in reflected starlight. The importance of knowing the planet radius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08784

Formation of aqua planets with water of nebular origin: Effects of water enrichment on the structure and mass of captured atmospheres of terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09068

June 16, 2020 updates

A Moving Target—Revising the Mass of Proxima Centauri c
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab9ca9

A Geologically Robust Procedure For Observing Rocky Exoplanets to Ensure that Detection of Atmospheric Oxygen is an Earth-Like Biosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07403

Tentative Evidence for Water Vapor in the Atmosphere of the Neptune-Size Exoplanet HD 106315 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07444

TATOO: a tidal-chronology standalone tool to estimate the age of massive close-in planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07880

Destruction of molecular hydrogen ice and Implications for 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08088

Keeping M-Earths Habitable in the Face of Atmospheric Loss by Sequestering Water in the Mantle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08514

A Quantitative Assessment of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent Civilizations in the Galaxy and the Case of FRB-like Signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08493

June 15, 2020 updates

Resonance locking in giant planets indicated by the rapid orbital expansion of Titan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06854

JWST Transit Spectra I: Exploring Potential Biases and Opportunities in Retrievals of Tidally-locked Hot Jupiters with Clouds and Hazes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06899

Three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of the upper atmosphere of π Men c: comparison with Lyα transit observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06959

π Earth: a 3.14 days Earth-sized Planet from \textit{K2}’s Kitchen served warm by the SPECULOOS Team
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07308

June 12, 2020 updates

Gravity Assist: Puffy Planets, Powerful Telescopes, with Knicole Colon
https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/gravity-assist-puffy-planets-powerful-telescopes-with-knicole-colon

Neutral Cr and V in the atmosphere of ultra hot jupiter WASP-121 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05995

Is the faint young Sun problem for Earth solved?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06265

Unresolved Binary Exoplanet Host Stars Fit as Single Stars: Effects on the Stellar Parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06528

Coevolution of primitive methane cycling ecosystems and early Earth atmosphere and climate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.06433