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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April 7, 2020 updates

Sulfur-driven haze formation in warm CO2-rich exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1072-9

Formation of secondary atmospheres on terrestrial planets by late disk accretion
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1050-2

Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10 830 Å in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37175-19/aa37175-19.html

Extremely long convergence times in a 3D GCM simulation of the sub-Neptune Gliese 1214b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01829

Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov exhibits a structure similar to native Solar System comets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02033

Exomoon indicators in high-precision transit light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.02259

April 3, 2020 updates

Interstellar Comet Borisov is no longer in one piece
https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-two-pieces.html

Is there Na I in the atmosphere of HD 209458b? – Effect of the centre-to-limb variation and Rossiter-McLaughlin effect in transmission spectroscopy studies
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37221-19/aa37221-19.html

Earth’s Polar Night Boundary Layer as an Analog for Dark Side Inversions on Synchronously Rotating Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab7fb3

WASP-4 is Accelerating Toward the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00637

Tidal friction in satellites and planets. The new version of the creep tide theory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01109

April 1, 2020 updates

The Solar System: Favored for Space Travel
https://bio-complexity.org/ojs/index.php/main/article/viewArticle/BIO-C.2020.1

Intermittent signals and planetary days in SETI
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/intermittent-signals-and-planetary-days-in-seti/C82E96F87F60F2833576357CEE32FDFB

Super‐Earth internal structures and initial thermal states
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JE006124

Robustly detecting changes in warm Jupiters’ transit impact parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13796

Retrograde-rotating exoplanets experience obliquity excitations in an eccentricity-enabled resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13864

Resolving Exo-Continents with Einstein Ring Deconvolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13918

Thermally Driven Angular Momentum Transport in Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14044

Physical Characterisation of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14064

Outstanding Challenges of Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14311

Allesfitter: Flexible Star and Exoplanet Inference From Photometry and Radial Velocity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14371

Kepler’s Dark Worlds: a Low Albedo for an Ensemble of Neptunian and Terran Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10213