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 6, 2020 updates

Demonstration of Deployment Accuracy of the Starshade Inner Disk Subsystem
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-1670

Thin-Ply Thermoplastic Composites for Foldable Structures
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-0206

Stowage and Recovery of Thin-ply Composite Deployable Structures
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-0205

Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 μm Feature in Reflected Light
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab5a8a

There’s No Place Like Home (in Our Own Solar System): Searching for ET Near White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00673

January 3, 2020 updates

MuSCAT2 multicolour validation of TESS candidates: an ultra-short-period substellar object around an M dwarf
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa35958-19/aa35958-19.html

A robust, template-free approach to precise radial velocity extraction
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3599/5695753

High-resolution Spectra and Biosignatures of Earth-like Planets Transiting White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00049

High resolution Spectra of Earth-Like Planets Orbiting Red Giant Host Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00050

Deflating Super-Puffs: Impact of Photochemical Hazes on the Observed Mass-Radius Relationship of Low Mass Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00055

How planetary surfaces can shape the climate of habitable exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00085

Creation and Evolution of Impact-generated Reduced Atmospheres of Early Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00095

Using Data Imputation for Signal Separation in High Contrast Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00563

January 1, 2020 Updates

Optical Transmission Spectra of Hot-Jupiters: Effects of Scattering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12495

MCMCI: a code to fully characterize an exoplanetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12632

Is Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov a Stardust Comet? Predictions for the Post Perihelion Period
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.12730

MIRACLES: atmospheric characterization of directly imaged planets and substellar companions at 4-5 micron. I. Photometric analysis of β Pic b, HIP 65426 b, PZ Tel B and HD 206893 B
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.13316