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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November 5, 2020 updates

PyLightcurve-torch: a transit modelling package for deep learning applications in PyTorch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02030

SPECULOOS — Ultracool Dwarf Transit Survey: Target List and Strategy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02069

Activity time series of old stars from late F to early K. V. Effect on exoplanet detectability with high-precision astrometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02158

Generalized Stoichiometry and Biogeochemistry for Astrobiological Applications
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02425

November 4, 2020 updates

From Earth-Orbit Space Colonies to Deep-Space and Interstellar Habitats and Worldships: Solving the Economics
https://jbis.org.uk/paper/2020.73.382

Effect of mantle oxidation state and escape upon the evolution of Earth’s magma ocean atmosphere
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa38779-20/aa38779-20.html

A Fast, Two-dimensional Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abbc16

Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b with ESPRESSO
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01245

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — LP 714-47b (TOI 442.01): Populating the Neptune desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01716

November 3, 2020 updates

The widest broadband transmission spectrum (0.38–1.71 μm) of HD 189733b from ground-based chromatic Rossiter–McLaughlin observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/11/aa39213-20/aa39213-20.html

The eccentricity distribution of giant planets and their relation to super-Earths in the pebble accretion scenario
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/11/aa38856-20/aa38856-20.html

Reflected Light Observations of the Galilean Satellites from Cassini: A Test Bed for Cold Terrestrial Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abb8df

Dynamical Mass Estimates of the β Pictoris Planetary System through Gaussian Process Stellar Activity Modeling
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/abba30

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning. IV. Removing Stellar Activity Signals from Radial Velocity Measurements Using Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00003

Separating planetary reflex Doppler shifts from stellar variability in the wavelength domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00018

The Three Dimensional Flow Field Around Planets on Eccentric Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00022

A new perspective on interiors of ice-rich planets: Ice-rock mixture rather than a layered structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00602

Evaluating the Effect of Four Unknown Parameters Included in a Latitudinal Energy Balance Model on the Habitability of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06907

November 2, 2020 updates

Curvature Invariants for the Alcubierre and Natário Warp Drives
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13693

Space travel by reduced effective mass after induced matter theory
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4171

Design Reference Mission Development for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Enabled Science Missions
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4126

Laser Fusion Propulsion using Extreme CPA-Laser Pulses for Boron Fusion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4081

A Future for Leptonic Fuels
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4204

The Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Engine – Nacelle Concept and Development Roadmap
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4082

In-Space Fabrication and Growth of Affordable Large Interior Rotating Habitats
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2020-4193

The Concept of Developmental Relativity: Thoughts on the Technological Synchrony of Interstellar Civilizations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0265964620300333

Thresholds in origin of life scenarios
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220309536

Evolutionary History of Bioessential Elements Can Guide the Search for Life in the Universe
https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cbic.202000500

TOI 122b and TOI 237b, two small warm planets orbiting inactive M dwarfs, found by \textit{TESS}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15905

Lessons Learned from the 1st ARIEL Machine Learning Challenge: Correcting Transiting Exoplanet Light Curves for Stellar Spots
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15996

HAT-P-68b: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Around a K5 Dwarf Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16026