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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September 3, 2020 updates

Cosmology, astrobiology, and the RNA world: Just add quintessential water
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343858864_Cosmology_astrobiology_and_the_RNA_world_Just_add_quintessential_water

The ExoMolOP Database: Cross-sections and k-tables for Molecules of Interest in High-Temperature Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00687

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Rubidium abundances in nearby cool stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00876

September 2, 2020 updates

Centro de Astrobiología: 20 Years Building Astrobiology
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.0804

The Influence of Stellar Phosphorus On Our Understanding of Exoplanets and Astrobiology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00009

Habitable Zones in Binary Star Systems: A Zoology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00144

On the evolution of global ocean tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00204

The Equatorial Jet Speed on Tidally Locked Planets: I — Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.00358

August 31, 2020 updates

Photometry of exoplanetary transits at Osservatorio Polifunzionale del Chianti
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09669-6

Possible New Envelope Types of Hot Jupiters
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920080090

Seeing above the Clouds with High Resolution Spectroscopy
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2424/5899070

Chemical Fingerprints of Formation in Rocky Super-Earths’ Data
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2615/5899063

Retention of Long-period Gas Giant Planets: Type II Migration Revisited
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abaab6

TKS III: A Stellar Obliquity Measurement of TOI-1726 c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12397

The TOI-763 system: sub-Neptunes orbiting a Sun-like star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12535