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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December 29, 2020 updates

TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A Warm sub-Saturn Orbiting an Evolved F-type Star
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3960/6054535

Host star metallicity of directly imaged wide-orbit planets: implications for planet formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13694

Contrast and Temperature Dependence of Multi-Epoch High-Resolution Cross-Correlation Exoplanet Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14068

Model Optimization for Deep Space Exploration via Simulators and Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14092

Are extrasolar Einstein’s spinning tops habitable?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14245

December 25, 2020 updates

High burial efficiency is required to explain mass balance in Earth’s early carbon cycle
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GB006707

Finding exoplanets in the habitable zone with light echoes
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11448/2559345/Finding-exoplanets-in-the-habitable-zone-with-light-echoes/10.1117/12.2559345.short

Close stellar encounters kicking planets out of habitable zone in various stellar environments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10595

Rendezvous Mission for Interstellar Objects Using a Solar Sail-based Statite Concept
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12935

Three-dimensional continuum radiative transfer of polarized radiation in exoplanetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12992

December 24, 2020 updates

Photonic Laser Thruster: 100 Times Scaling-Up and Propulsion Demonstration
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.B38144

Exotic Fluids Matching the Stress-Energy Tensor of Alcubierre Warp Drive Spacetimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09941

Semi-analytical model for planetary resonances: application to planets around single and binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12296

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: Phase I fiber injection unit early performance and commissioning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12318

December 23, 2020 updates

Hot Jupiter and Ultra-cold Saturn Formation in Dense Star Clusters
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abc619

Exoplanet imaging data challenge: benchmarking the various image processing methods for exoplanet detection
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11448/2574803/Exoplanet-imaging-data-challenge–benchmarking-the-various-image-processing/10.1117/12.2574803.short

Performance study of interferometric small-sats to detect exoplanets: updated exoplanet yield and application to nearby exoplanets
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11446/2562119/Performance-study-of-interferometric-small-sats-to-detect-exoplanets/10.1117/12.2562119.short

The Fundamental Connections Between the Solar System and Exoplanetary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11628

Magnetospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets and Exomoons: Implications for Habitability and Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11694

Semi-Empirical Modeling of the Atmospheres of the M Dwarf Exoplanet Hosts GJ 832 and GJ 581
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11738

MOVES IV. Modelling the influence of stellar XUV-flux, cosmic rays, and stellar energetic particles on the atmospheric composition of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12132

December 22, 2020 updates

Models of Disability as Models of First Contact
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11/12/676

Navigation Using Pulsars and Other Variable Celestial Sources
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119458555.ch52

Persistence of flare-driven atmospheric chemistry on rocky habitable zone worlds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01264-1

Determining the true mass of radial-velocity exoplanets with Gaia – Nine planet candidates in the brown dwarf or stellar regime and 27 confirmed planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39168-20/aa39168-20.html

Earth as a Proxy Exoplanet: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Spectrophotometric Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10556

Hydrodynamic Escape of Mineral Atmosphere from Hot Rocky Exoplanet. I. Model Description
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10605

TESS Asteroseismology of α Mensae: Benchmark Ages for a G7 Dwarf and its M-dwarf Companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.10797

ogle-2017-blg-1049: another giant planet microlensing event
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11080

Detectability of biosignatures on LHS 1140 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11426