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 19, 2021 updates

Configuration Selection and Analysis of a Superstructure Solar Sail
https://it-in-industry.org/index.php/itii/article/view/471

Survival of soil microbial community exposed to hyper-gravity conditions
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-385552/v1

Photonic solution to phase sensing and control for light-based interstellar propulsion
https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/fulltext.cfm?uri=josab-38-5-1477&id=450064

Neopanspermia – Evidence That Life Continuously Arrives at the Earth from Space
http://isaac-scientific.com/4/2087/6/1/02/2021/AdAp.html

Discovery of a directly imaged planet to the young solar analog YSES 2
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2021/04/aa40508-21/aa40508-21.html

Microalgae strategy in anoxic atmospheres with various CO2 concentrations – Environmental and (astro)biotechnological perspectives
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0098847221001040

Orbital stability of compact three-planet systems, I: Dependence of system lifetimes on initial orbital separations and longitudes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103521001512

Circumbinary Habitable Zones in the Presence of a Giant Planet
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.640830/full

Primary Velocity and Orbital Phase Effects on Planetary Detectability from Small Epoch Number Data Sets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07790

An Empirical Bayesian Approach to Limb-darkening in Modeling WASP-121b Transit Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07864

Shortest Microlensing Event with a Bound Planet: KMT-2016-BLG-2605
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07906

April 14, 2021 updates

How likely are Snowball episodes near the inner edge of the habitable zone?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06216

Main ways in which stars influence the climate and surface habitability of their planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06391

No Sub-Saturn Mass Planet Desert in the CORALIE/HARPS Radial Velocity Sample
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05713

The impact of tidal friction evolution on the orbital decay of ultra-short period planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05967

Physics of star-planet magnetic interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05968

Revisiting Kepler-444. II. Rotational, orbital and high-energy fluxes evolution of the system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.06061

April 13, 2021 updates

Breakthrough Discuss 2021: Alpha Centauri System: A Beckoning Neighbor
https://youtu.be/qpewt9qEYXw

Breakthrough Discuss 2021: Yuri’s Night
https://youtu.be/Q3lP65PLaJA

Hunting Exoplanets Using Transit Method With Convolution Neural Networks
https://irjmets.com/rootaccess/forms/uploads/IRJMETS672856.pdf

Pushing planets into an inner cavity by a resonant chain
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/04/aa38772-20/aa38772-20.html

Relativistic modeling of atmospheric occultations with time transfer functions
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2021/04/aa40269-20/aa40269-20.html

Oxygen False Positives on Habitable Zone Planets Around Sun‐Like Stars
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020AV000294

Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04824

A Stellar Activity F-statistic for Exoplanet Surveys (SAFE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04887

Tides in the high-eccentricity migration of hot Jupiters: Triggering diffusive growth by nonlinear mode interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04929

3D convection-resolving model of temperate, tidally-locked exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05559

Hot planets around cool stars — two short-period mini-Neptunes transiting the late K-dwarf TOI-1260
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05653