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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November 17, 2020 updates

Generation of Unbound Comets and Planets by Planetary Systems
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920110098

Finding Signs of Life on Transiting Earthlike Planets: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through Time around FGKM Host Stars
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abb9b2

Direct imaging of sub-Jupiter mass exoplanets with James Webb Space Telescope coronagraphy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07075

Multi-color photometry and parameters estimation of Jupiter-sized exoplanets; TRES-3b, WASP-2b and HATP-30b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07169

Detection of the hydrogen Balmer lines in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07888

November 13, 2020 updates

Ariel moves from blueprint to reality
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Ariel_moves_from_blueprint_to_reality

A data-driven approach to constraining the atmospheric temperature structure of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39061-20/aa39061-20.html

A Mini-Neptune and a Radius Valley Planet Orbiting the Nearby M2 Dwarf TOI-1266 in Its Venus Zone: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbe19

An enhanced slope in the transmission spectrum of the hot Jupiter WASP-104b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06329

Evidence of a Clear Atmosphere for WASP-62b: the Only Known Transiting Gas Giant in the JWST Continuous Viewing Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06424

An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06090