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 8, 2021 updates

Giant Magellan Telescope project casts sixth mirror
https://www.space.com/giant-magellan-telescope-6th-mirror-casting

Determination of stellar parameters for Ariel targets: a comparison analysis between different spectroscopic methods
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-020-09695-4

The contribution of water radiolysis to marine sedimentary life
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21218-z

Revisiting the Kepler field with TESS: Improved ephemerides using TESS 2min data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03259

Interstellar Objects in the Solar System: 1. Isotropic Kinematics from the Gaia Early Data Release 3
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03289

On the Detection of Habitable Trojan Planets in the Kepler Circumbinary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03455

March 5, 2021 updates

A Method for Creating Enormous Space Telescopes
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/03/04/a-method-for-creating-enormous-space-telescopes/

A nearby transiting rocky exoplanet that is suitable for atmospheric investigation
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6533/1038

A blazing nearby super-Earth
https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2021-05-gliese486b

The JADE code: Coupling secular exoplanetary dynamics and photo-evaporation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02627

Closed-formed ab initio solutions of geometric albedos and reflected light phase curves of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02673

A transiting warm giant planet around the young active star TOI-201
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02685

The future lifespan of Earth’s oxygenated Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02694

A Gaussian Process Regression Reveals No Evidence for Planets Orbiting Kapteyn’s Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02709

Longevity is the key factor in the search for technosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02923

First Detection of Hydroxyl Radical Emission from an Exoplanet Atmosphere: High-dispersion Characterization of WASP-33b using Subaru/IRD
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03094

March 4, 2021 updates

Origins Space Telescope science drivers to design traceability
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/Journal-of-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instruments-and-Systems/volume-7/issue-1/011012/Origins-Space-Telescope-science-drivers-to-design-traceability/10.1117/1.JATIS.7.1.011012.full

Evo-SETI: Life Evolution Statistics on Earth and Exoplanets
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030519308

Hemispheric Tectonics on LHS 3844b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abe400

Semiempirical Modeling of the Atmospheres of the M Dwarf Exoplanet Hosts GJ 832 and GJ 581
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd62f

Experimental investigation of Mach-Effect thrusters on torsion balances
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576521001119

Exoplanet Statistics and Theoretical Implications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02127

The Impact of Stellar Clustering on the Observed Multiplicity and Orbital Periods of Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01974

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Instrument (CGI) Technology Demonstration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01980

March 2, 2021 updates

Atmospheric Technosignatures: Searching for Intelligent Life in Alien Skies
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e1e52526fe19076661d2a77/t/600638f0825cad7378ca8eeb/1611020536262/

Damage to Relativistic Interstellar Spacecraft by ISM Impact Gas Accumulation
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abd4ec/meta

Atmospheric characterization of hot Jupiters using hierarchical models of Spitzer observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00010

An ultra-short-period transiting super-Earth orbiting the M3 dwarf TOI-1685
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.01016