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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February 24, 2020 updates

The winter-over syndrome and the potential lessons for space travel
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/18567

Third Displacement: Cosmobiology, Cosmolocality, Cosmosocioecology
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Displacement-Cosmobiology-Cosmolocality-Cosmosocioecology-ebook/dp/B084T5QSDM/

Chemical Diversity of Super-Earths As a Consequence of Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09042

Fly-by encounters between two planetary systems II: Exploring the interactions of diverse planetary system architectures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09271

February 21, 2020 updates

Giant planet swaps during close stellar encounters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08366

Linking the formation and fate of exo-Kuiper belts within solar system analogues
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08372

Detection of Na, K, and Hα absorption in the atmosphere of WASP-52b using ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08379

The Dark Planets of the WASP-47 Planetary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08381

Stabilization of dayside surface liquid water via tropopause cold trapping on arid slowly rotating tidally locked planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08600

Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08727

Observational Constraints on the Great Filter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08776

A crucial test for astronomical spectrograph calibration with frequency combs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08868

February 20, 2020 updates

Architecture of three-planet systems predicted from the observed protoplanetary disk of HL Tau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08036

The Stellar Variability Noise Floor for Transiting Exoplanet Photometry with PLATO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08072

The role of disc torques in forming resonant planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08077

On the Likelihood of Observing Extragalactic Civilizations: Predictions from the Self-Indication Assumption
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08194

February 19, 2020 updates

Partial Ownership for Outer Space Economy
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42423-019-00042-0

Observational Signatures of Sub-Relativistic Meteors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01476

3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of stellar convective noise for improved exoplanet detection. I. Case of regularly sampled radial velocity observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07457

Anoxic weathering of mafic oceanic crust promotes atmospheric oxygenation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.07667

February 18, 2020 updates

Hardware-In-The-Loop Testing of Formation Flying Control and Sensing Algorithms for Starshade Missions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520300734

Coupled Thermal and Compositional Evolution of Photo Evaporating Planet Envelopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06466

Bringing high spatial resolution to the Far-infrared — A giant leap for astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06693

Stellar masks and bisector’s shape for M-type stars observed in the GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06844

Empirical Line Lists in the ExoMol Database
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06939