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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May 6, 2020 updates

A Practical Guide for Selecting and Utilizing Pulsars for Galactic Navigation
http://dses.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/19-A-Practical-Guide-for-Selecting-and-Utilizing-Pulsars-for-Galactic-Navigation.pdf

The Italian National Project of Astrobiology—Life in Space—Origin, Presence, Persistence of Life in Space, from Molecules to Extremophiles
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2247

A Coupled Analysis of Atmospheric Mass Loss and Tidal Evolution in XUV Irradiated Exoplanets: the TRAPPIST-1 Case Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01740

Consistently Simulating a Wide Range of Atmospheric Scenarios for K2-18b with a Flexible Radiative Transfer Module
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02114

Increasing the raw contrast of VLT/SPHERE with the dark hole technique. I. Simulations and validation on the internal source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02179

ARES I: WASP-76 b, A Tale of Two HST Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02374

May 5, 2020 updates

Spaceship Earth
https://www.sundance.org/projects/spaceship-earth

Laboratory studies on the viability of life in H2-dominated exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1069-4

Visible and near-infrared observations of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov with the 10.4-m GTC and the 3.6-m TNG telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00786

The occurrence rate of exoplanets orbiting ultracool dwarfs as probed by K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01440

Stellar impact on disequilibrium chemistry and on observed spectra of hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01470

Microlensed Radio Emission from Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01542

Testing Earth-like atmospheric evolution on exo-Earths through oxygen absorption: required sample sizes and the advantage of age-based target selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01587

Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01684

HAZMAT VI: The Evolution of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Emitted from Early M Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01687

May 1, 2020 updates

Toward Complete Characterization: Prospects for Directly Imaging Transiting Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14396

Discovery and characterization of the exoplanets WASP-148b and c. A transiting system with two interacting giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14645

Atmospheric dynamics on terrestrial planets with eccentric orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14673

KELT-9 b’s Asymmetric TESS Transit Caused by Rapid Stellar Rotation and Spin-Orbit Misalignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14812

Bayesian Methods for Joint Exoplanet Transit Detection and Systematic Noise Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14893

April 30, 2020 updates

What is the Exoplanet Technologies Lab?
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/exoplanet-technologies-lab

Blockchain Properties for Near-Planetary, Interplanetary, and Metaplanetary Space Domains
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.I010833

Toward Extremely Precise Radial Velocities. I. Simulated Solar Spectra for Testing Exoplanet Detection Algorithms
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab8d44

Performance Verification of the EXtreme PREcision Spectrograph
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab811d

Constraints on Metastable Helium in the Atmospheres of WASP-69b and WASP-52b with Ultra-Narrowband Photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13728

High-Resolution Spectral Discriminants of Ocean Loss for M Dwarf Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13731

Mass loss rate and local thermodynamic state of KELT-9 b thermosphere from the hydrogen Balmer series
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13733

Chemistry of Temperate Super-Earth and Mini-Neptune Atmospheric Hazes from Laboratory Experiments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13794

Thermodynamic and Energetic Limits on Continental Silicate Weathering Strongly Impact the Climate and Habitability of Wet, Rocky Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14058

Scattered light may reveal the existence of ringed exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14121