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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January 24, 2020 updates

Collisional formation of massive exomoons of super-terrestrial exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa211/5715471

On the Habitable Lifetime of Terrestrial Worlds with High Radionuclide Abundances
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab68e5

A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. I. High-contrast imaging with VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08224

A multiplicity study of transiting exoplanet host stars. II. Revised properties of transiting planetary systems with companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08225

Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-Resolved Observations of Directly-Imaged Exoplanet HD106906b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08304

A Search for Transiting Planets in the Globular Cluster M4 with K2: Candidates and Occurrence Limits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08362

January 22, 2020 updates

Spacecraft Guidance Sensing at Relativistic Velocities
https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-spacecraft-attitude-control/spacecraft-guidance-sensing-at-relativistic-velocities

On the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/on-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-seti/F6EB673C1E3F670D1DE68588824636B1

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06683

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) III. Atmospheric structure of the misaligned ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06836

Detection of neutral atomic species in the ultra-hot jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07196

TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A Warm sub-Saturn on a Moderately Eccentric Orbit Around an Evolved F-type Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07345

Confirmation of WASP-107b’s extended Helium atmosphere with Keck II/NIRSPEC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07667