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 2, 2020 updates

Modeling and simulating a regenerative life support system to understand the effects of system interaction on survivability during deep space missions
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:dc29a485-a014-454f-9dde-aff5bb133c1d

TYCHO — Realistically Simulating Exoplanets within Stellar Clusters I: Improving the Monte Carlo Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12375

Indexing Exoplanets with Physical Conditions Potentially Suitable for Rock-Dependent Extremophiles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12650

Achieving the required mobility in the solar system through Direct Fusion Drive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12686

February 28, 2020 updates

The reliability of the Titius–Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psz146/5763006

Birth environment of circumbinary planets: are there circumbinary planets on inclined orbits?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/493/2/1907/5764173

The UV surface habitability of Proxima b : first experiments revealing probable life survival to stellar flares
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa037/5762693

Frequency of Planets in Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11734

Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11871

Planets in Binaries: Formation and Dynamical Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12006

February 27, 2020 updates

A probabilistic analysis of the Fermi paradox in terms of the Drake formula: the role of the L factor
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa512/5741733

Grand challenges for nanophotonics: Steering and riding light
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/101355/

Energy-sensitive Detectors for Astronomy: Past, Present and Future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300038

High-Energy and High-Quality Ion beams in Light Sail Acceleration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11563

The interior and atmosphere of the habitable-zone exoplanet K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11115

Fingerprints of giant planets in the composition of solar twins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11135

Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378f?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11422

February 26, 2020 updates

Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including One Habitable Zone World
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6cf8

Cloud Atlas: Weak Color Modulations Due to Rotation in the Planetary-mass Companion GU Psc b and 11 Other Brown Dwarfs
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5f59

Circumbinary Planets — The Next Steps
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10492

The GAPS Programme at TNG XXI — A GIARPS case-study of known young planetary candidates: confirmation of HD 285507 b and refutation of AD Leo b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10562

Is there NaI in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10595

Energy Optimization in Extrasolar Planetary Systems: The Transition from Peas-in-a-Pod to Runaway Growth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10661

Fourth-order Coronagraph for High-Contrast Imaging of Exoplanets with Off-axis Segmented Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10762

Spatial distribution of exoplanet candidates based on Kepler and Gaia data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10823

TRAPPIST-1 Habitable Atmosphere Intercomparison (THAI). Motivations and protocol version 1.0
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10950