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 29, 2021 updates

Precise radial velocities of giant stars – XV. Mysterious nearly periodic radial velocity variations in the eccentric binary ε Cygni
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/03/aa40087-20/aa40087-20.html

Simulation and analysis of the coherent-dispersion spectrometer for exoplanet detection
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/503/2/3032/6196008

The “Breakthrough” Proposal for Laser-accelerated Spacecraft is not Feasible
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abf124

A joint mind consideration of the Drake equation in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521001338

Assessment of Isoprene as a Possible Biosignature Gas in Exoplanets with Anoxic Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14228

An exploration of model degeneracies with a unified phase curve retrieval analysis: The light and dark sides of WASP-43 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14566

March 26, 2021 updates

Assessing the Abundance of Super-Mercuries and Their Habitability
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2477.pdf

Differentiating Exo-Venus and Exo-Earth Using Transmission Spectroscopy
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2580.pdf

To See a World in a Shard of Ice: ‘Oumuamua as a Fragment of N2 Ice from an Exo-Pluto
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1718.pdf

Petrological Experiments on Rocky Exoplanet Compositions Reveal Clues to Habitability
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1967.pdf

The Compositional Range of Terrestrial Exoplanets in the Solar Neighborhood
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2605.pdf

Energetic Requirements for Dynamos in the Metallic Cores of Super-Earth and Super-Venus Exoplanets
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2323.pdf

Characterizing Exoplanet Transits and Stellar Activity in Kepler Lightcurves with Scalable Gaussian Processes
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1552.pdf

Towards Deep Learning for Transiting Exoplanet Search Using Simulated TESS Data
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2080.pdf

Leveraging Meteorite Outgassing Experiments to Improve Models of the Initial Atmospheres of Terrestrial Exoplanets
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1313.pdf

The Scientific Case for an Earth Transit Observer
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1265.pdf

Habitability Models for Planetary Sciences
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2291.pdf

Evolution of Terrestrial Habitability
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2720.pdf

Habitability of Cloudy Worlds: Intersecting Constraints and Unknowns
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/2691.pdf

Activity of TRAPPIST-1 analogue stars observed with TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13540

The Mass Budget Necessary to Explain `Oumuamua as a Nitrogen Iceberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.14032

March 25, 2021 updates

The ‘Oumuamua Encounter: How Modern Cosmology Handled Its First Black Swan
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/3/510

Close encounters with the Death Star: Interactions between collapsed bodies and the Solar system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12745

Two Bright M Dwarfs Hosting Ultra-Short-Period Super-Earths with Earth-like Compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12760

GRIT: a package for structure-preserving simulations of gravitationally interacting rigid-bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12767

TOI-1634 b: an Ultra-Short Period Keystone Planet Sitting Inside the M Dwarf Radius Valley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12790

A Spectral Survey of WASP-19b with ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12858

Biases in orbit fitting of directly-imaged exoplanets with small orbital coverage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12877

How does the mass and activity history of the host star affect the population of low-mass planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13117

March 24, 2021 updates

Pandora Mission Would Expand NASA’s Capabilities in Probing Alien Worlds
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/pandora-mission-would-expand-nasa-s-capabilities-in-probing-alien-worlds

Three-dimensional Climate Simulations for the Detectability of Proxima Centauri b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abdeb4

SOAR TESS Survey. II: The impact of stellar companions on planetary populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12076

TransitFit: an exoplanet transit fitting package for multi-telescope datasets and its application to WASP-127~b, WASP-91~b, and WASP-126~b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12139

The TESS Objects of Interest Catalog from the TESS Prime Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12538

March 23, 2021 updates

Thrust Measurements and Evaluation of Asymmetric Infrared Laser Resonators for Space Propulsion
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350108417_Thrust_Measurements_and_Evaluation_of_Asymmetric_Infrared_Laser_Resonators_for_Space_Propulsion

Kinematics of the Interstellar Vagabond 1I/‘Oumuamua (A/2017 U1)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017RNAAS…1…21M/abstract

The ‘‘Detectability Window’’ Method to Take into Account Observational Selection in the Statistics of Exoplanets Discovered through Radial Velocity Measurements
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773721010059

Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10 830 Å in the atmospheres of HD 189733 b and GJ 3470 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/03/aa39417-20/aa39417-20.html

Climate Change of over 20 °C Induced by Continental Movement on a Synchronously Rotating Exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abebe6

On the Period-Ratio-Mass-Ratio Correlation of Extra-Solar Multi-Planet Systems
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107621000348

PCS — A Roadmap for Exoearth Imaging with the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11196

Galactic internet made possible by star gravitational lensing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11483

Systematic KMTNet Planetary Anomaly Search, Paper I: OGLE-2019-BLG-1053Lb, A Buried Terrestrial Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11880