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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October 12, 2020 updates

Exoplanet Hunting in Deep Space with Machine Learning
https://www.journals.resaim.com/ijresm/article/view/323

Propulsion for Spacecrafts using on-board Laser Reflection and Absorption
https://engrxiv.org/fh6ez/

Sun-as-a-star Spectral Irradiance Observations of Transiting Active Regions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abadf9

Towards a more complex description of chemical profiles in exoplanets retrievals: A 2-layer parameterisation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11180

Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pic c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04442

Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets. Can a multi-layer planet be approximated as a homogeneous planet?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04587

Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04632

October 9, 2020 updates

Cardiovascular deconditioning during long-term spaceflight through multiscale modeling
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-020-00117-5

Stable climates for temperate rocky circumbinary planets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006712

A Highly Eccentric Warm Jupiter Orbiting TIC 237913194
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03570

Microelectromechanical deformable mirror development for high-contrast imaging, part 2: the impact of quantization errors on coronagraph image contrast
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03704

Mutual detectability: a targeted SETI strategy that avoids the SETI Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04089

The TESS Phase Curve of KELT-1b Suggests a High Dayside Albedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10292

October 8, 2020 updates

Phase-curve Pollution of Exoplanet Transit Depths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abac09

Mutual inclinations between giant planets and their debris discs in HD 113337 and HD 38529
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02961

Occurrence rates of small planets from HARPS: Focus on the Galactic context
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03237

Matched filtering with non-Gaussian noise for planet transit detections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03470

Astrochemistry and compositions of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03529

Interactive Visualization of Atmospheric Effects for Celestial Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03534

October 7, 2020 updates

The Isotopic Imprint of Life on an Evolving Planet
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00730-6

Waterworlds May Have Better Climate Buffering Capacities than Their Continental Counterparts
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abb882

Observable Signatures of the Ejection Speed of Interstellar Objects from their Birth Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02214

Earth as an Exoplanet: I. Time variable thermal emission using spatially resolved MODIS data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02589

October 6, 2020 updates

Lightweight metasurface mirror of silicon nanospheres
https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/abstract.cfm?uri=ome-10-10-2706

Habitable worlds of merging stars
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/habitable-worlds-of-merging-stars/89F8F995D2C47BCEE4CD800E5A60D8F8

Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/expecting-the-unexpected-in-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life/6D49A34118730A6DBA09E41DF75A72B3

KELT-11 b: Abundances of water and constraints on carbon-bearing molecules from the Hubble transmission spectrum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01310

Finding Signs of Life on Earth-like Planets: High-resolution Transmission Spectra of Earth through time around FGKM stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01734

K2-111: an old system with two planets in near-resonance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01993

Time-resolved rotational velocities in the upper atmosphere of WASP-33 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02118

Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02133