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, 2020 updates

Emergence of life in an inflationary universe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58060-0

Mission to Planet Earth: The First Two Billion Years
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00652-3

Astrometric study of Gaia DR2 stars for interstellar communication
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03511

Strong biases in retrieved atmospheric composition caused by strong day-night chemical heterogeneities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05943

Earth′s polar night boundary layer as an analogue for dark side inversions on synchronously rotating terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06306

Systematic Phase Curve Study of Known Transiting Systems from Year 1 of the TESS Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06407

March 13, 2020 updates

Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology
https://www.amazon.com/Social-Conceptual-Issues-Astrobiology-Kelly/dp/019091565X/

How Well Do We Understand the Belt/Zone Circulation of Giant Planet Atmospheres?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0631-9

Venusian Habitable Climate Scenarios: Modeling Venus through time and applications to slowly rotating Venus-Like Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05704

SPHERE+: Imaging young Jupiters down to the snowline
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05714

Three Short Period Jupiters from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05932

Unified simulations of planetary formation and atmospheric evolution: Effects of pebble accretion, giant impacts, and stellar irradiations on super-Earth formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05934

March 12, 2020 updates

The Impact of Molecular Oxygen on Anion Composition in a Hazy Archean Earth Atmosphere
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2145

Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2107-1

Resonance in the K2-19 system is at odds with its high reported eccentricities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04931

Dynamical instabilities in systems of multiple short-period planets are likely driven by secular chaos: a case study of Kepler-102
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05040

The reliability of the Titius-Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05121

Atmospheric compositions and observability of nitrogen dominated ultra-short period super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05354

Normalized Angular Momentum Deficit: a tool for comparing the violence of the dynamical histories of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05366

A weak spectral signature of water vapour in the atmosphere of HD 179949 b at high spectral resolution in the L-band
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05397

March 11, 2020 updates

Hermeneutics as the Methodology of Interpretation of Languages and Texts of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/hermeneutics-as-the-methodology-of-interpretation-of-languages-and-texts-of-extraterrestrial-intelligence

Photonic crystal lightsail with nonlinear reflectivity for increased stability
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-28-6-8223&id=428802

Comparing focal plane wavefront control techniques:\Numerical simulations and laboratory experiments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04336

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Intrinsic Relation between Planetary System Occurrence and Spectral Type for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04348

Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including 1 Habitable Zone World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04397

Probability of simultaneous parallax detection for free-floating planet microlensing events near Galactic Centre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04504

LHS 1815b: The First Thick-Disk Planet Detected By TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04525

Detection of Fe I and Fe II in the atmosphere of MASCARA-2b using a cross-correlation method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04650

Searching for Thermal Inversion Agents in the Transmission Spectrum of MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b: Detection of Neutral Iron and Ionised Calcium H&K Lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04856

Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10830 Angstroms in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04872

Re-inflation of warm and hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04877

Dynamical evolution of close-in binary systems formed by a super-earth and its host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575