Interstellar Updates

On-Board Decision Making in Space with Deep Neural Networks and RISC-V Vector Processors
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.I010916

The similarity of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov to Solar System comets from high-resolution optical spectroscopy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/06/aa41245-21/aa41245-21.html

A brief history of the term ‘habitable zone’ in the 19th century
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/brief-history-of-the-term-habitable-zone-in-the-19th-century/73FAD17A3E1F7B58CDDE64A79D941CF7

New giant planet beyond the snow line for an extended MOA exoplanet microlens sample
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1787/6309902

Searching For Transiting Planets Around Halo Stars. I. Sample Selection and Validation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13251

Searching For Transiting Planets Around Halo Stars. II. Constraining the Occurrence Rate of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13242

Implications of a search for intergalactic civilizations on prior estimates of human survival and travel speed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13348

Speckle Observations of TESS Exoplanet Host Stars. II. Stellar Companions at 1-1000 AU and Implications for Small Planet Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13354

The Exomoon Corridor for Multiple Moon Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13421

Simulating Reflected Light Exoplanet Spectra of the Promising Direct Imaging Target, υ Andromedae d, with a New, Fast Sampling Method Using the Planetary Spectrum Generator
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf657

The IRG Staff

Past, present and future stars that can see Earth as a transiting exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03596-y

Machine learning techniques in studies of the interior structure of rocky exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/06/aa40375-21/aa40375-21.html

The future influence of six exoplanets on the envelope properties of their parent stars on the giant branches
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stab1774/6308832

Understanding the Effects of Systematics in Exoplanetary Atmospheric Retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12358

Radiative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and the structure of clouds in planetary atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12448

Tidally Heated Exomoons around Gas Giants
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/abf6cb

Gaia search for stellar companions of TESS Objects of Interest II
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202113972

Exploiting timing capabilities of the CHEOPS mission with warm-Jupiter planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11331

Non-detection of Helium in the upper atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1b, e and f
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11444

Simulating gas giant exoplanet atmospheres with Exo-FMS: Comparing semi-grey, picket fence and correlated-k radiative-transfer schemes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11664

A Framework for Discovering Optimal Solutions in Photonic Inverse Design
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08419

Timescales for Prebiotic Photochemistry Under Realistic Surface Ultraviolet Conditions
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2335

Nonlinear Deployment Dynamics and Wrinkling of a Membrane Attached to Two Axially Moving Beams
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34962

Evolution of the Exoplanet Size Distribution: Forming Large Super-Earths Over Billions of Years
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abf439

Detection of Aerosols at Microbar Pressures in an Exoplanet Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10292

Planetary magnetosphere evolution around post-main-sequence stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10293

Irradiation-driven escape of primordial planetary atmospheres I. The ATES photoionization hydrodynamics code
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10294

An analytic solution for evaluating the magnetic field induced from an arbitrary, asymmetric ocean world
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10878

Formulation and Resolutions of the Red Sky Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11207

Non-local thermodynamic equilibrium effects determine the upper atmospheric temperature structure of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11263

The impact of classical and General Relativistic obliquity precessions on the habitability of circumstellar neutron stars’ planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06024

Self-stabilization of light sails by damped internal degrees of freedom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10961