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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February 8, 2021 updates

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov: dust composition from multiband photometry and modelling
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/502/2/1882/6129807

Parametrizing XO-2b exoplanet
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349086388_Parametrizing_XO-2b_exoplanet

Host-star and exoplanet compositions: a pilot study using a wide binary with a polluted white dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02843

Detecting Atmospheric Molecules of Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets using High-Resolution Spectroscopy in the Mid Infrared Domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03194

3-D climate simulations for the detectability of Proxima Centauri b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03255

February 5, 2021 updates

Could Humans Dwell beyond the Earth? Thinking with Heidegger on Space Colonization and the Topology of Technology
https://academic.oup.com/isle/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/isle/isaa164/6128700

Atmosphere Escape Inferred from Modeling the Hα Transmission Spectrum of WASP-121b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abda41

Two Massive Jupiters in Eccentric Orbits from the TESS Full Frame Images
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02222

The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Detects a Terrestrial-mass Planet Candidate Closely Orbiting Gliese 1151: The Likely Source of Coherent Low-frequency Radio Emission from an Inactive Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02233

February 4, 2021 updates

Modeling Rendezvous Trajectories to Objects of Interstellar Origin
https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/3197xr742

Android Noahs and embryo Arks: ectogenesis in global catastrophe survival and space colonization
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/abs/android-noahs-and-embryo-arks-ectogenesis-in-global-catastrophe-survival-and-space-colonization/CCF34021A78A7556FE87925AFFAFA109

Magnetic induction heating of planetary satellites: Analytical formulae and applications
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103521000543

The Demographics of Wide-Separation Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01715

Icy Exomoons Evidenced by Spallogenic Nuclides in Polluted White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01835

KMT-2018-BLG-1025Lb: microlensing super-Earth planet orbiting a low-mass star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01890

A Search for Optical Laser Emission from Proxima Centauri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01910

February 3, 2021 updates

Genetic evolution of a multi-generational population in the context of interstellar space travels — Part I: Genetic evolution under the neutral selection hypothesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01508

On a Possible Solution to the Tidal Realignment Problem for Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01081

Confirmation of Asymmetric Iron Absorption in WASP-76b with HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01095

Revisiting the Planet Mass and Stellar Metallicity Relation for Low-Mass Exoplanets Orbiting GKM Class Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01125

A Note on Planet Size and Cooling Rate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01077

February 2, 2021 updates

Phase curve and variability analysis of WASP-12b using TESS photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00052

A Heavy Molecular Weight Atmosphere for the Super-Earth π Men c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00203

Neutral metals in the atmosphere of HD149026b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00211

Influence of Biomass Emissions upon Habitability, Biosignatures and Detectability in Earth-like Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00220

Terrestrial Exoplanet Simulator (TES): an error optimal planetary systems integrator that permits close encounters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00465

Steady State by Recycling prevents Premature Collapse of Protoplanetary Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00939