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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January 21, 2021 updates

Habitability: a process versus a state variable framework with observational tests and theoretical implications
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/habitability-a-process-versus-a-state-variable-framework-with-observational-tests-and-theoretical-implications/25D9570A562B5AA20D54E6DD7524796E

Around which stars can TESS detect Earth-like planets? The Revised TESS Habitable Zone Catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07898

Following up TESS Single Transits With Archival Photometry and Radial Velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07964

Observational constraints on the formation and evolution of Neptune-class exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08025

Lucky planets: how circum-binary planets survive the supernova in one of the inner-binary components
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08033

Characterisation of the hydrospheres of TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08172

January 20, 2021 updates

Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487

Introduction to the Interstellar Medium
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/introduction-to-the-interstellar-medium/9811D1292C8FDC4E2D9C6F5ADE2FA306

Probing the capability of future direct imaging missions to spectrally constrain the frequency of Earth-like planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07378

Polarization of hot Jupiter systems: a likely detection of stellar activity and a possible detection of planetary polarization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07411

Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE): I. Improved exoplanet detection yield estimates for a large mid-infrared space-interferometer mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07500

Kepler-411 Differential Rotation from Three Transiting Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07692

January 19, 2021 updates

LIStEN: L′ band Imaging Survey for Exoplanets in the North
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/01/aa39541-20/aa39541-20.html

A multi-wavelength look at the GJ 9827 system — No evidence of extended atmospheres in GJ 9827 b and d from HST and CARMENES data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06277

Planet Occurrence Rate Correlated to Stellar Dynamical History: Evidence from Kepler Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06621

A Theoretical Framework for the Mass Distribution of Gas Giant Planets forming through the Core Accretion Paradigm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06714

A photospheric and chromospheric activity analysis of the quiescent retrograde-planet host ν Octantis A
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06844

Physical Constraints on Motility with Applications to Possible Life on Mars and Enceladus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06876

The ExoGRAVITY project: using single mode interferometry to characterize exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07098

Spectral signature of atmospheric winds in high resolution transit observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07143

January 18, 2021 updates

Feasibility assessment of deceleration technologies for interstellar probes
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Feasibility-assessment-of-deceleration-technologies-for-interstellar-probes

The curse of clouds
https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article-abstract/62/1/1.36/6102751

Enhanced ion acceleration in the relativistic transparent regime due to the laser rising edge
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/abd4c2

Vertically resolved magma ocean–protoatmosphere evolution: H2, H2O, CO2, CH4, CO, O2, and N2 as primary absorbers
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006711