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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August 19, 2020 updates

Evaluating Biosignatures for Life Detection
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2151

TFAW survey. I. Wavelet-based denoising of K2 light curves. Discovery and validation of two new Earth-sized planets in K2 campaign 1
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2509/5894404

Stability of planetary, single M dwarf, and binary star companions to Kepler detached eclipsing binaries and a possible five body system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07731

Constraining the Bulk Composition of Disintegrating Exoplanets Using Combined Transmission Spectra from JWST and SPICA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07781

Search for Nearby Earth Analogs. III. Detection of ten new planets, three planet candidates, and confirmation of three planets around eleven nearby M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07998

August 17, 2020 updates

Curvature Invariants for the Accelerating Natario Warp Drive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03366

Passive shielding of space radiation for human exploration missions – Simulations and Radiation Tests
https://iris.polito.it/handle/11583/2711122?mode=full.8023

The Multiplanet System TOI-421
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba124

From the LIPS of a serial killer: Endogenic retardation of biological evolution on unstable stagnant-lid planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320302816

Interstellar Now! Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343678500_Interstellar_Now_Missions_to_and_Sample_Returns_from_Nearby_Interstellar_Objects

August 14, 2020 updates

A Featureless Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Super-Puff Planet Kepler-79d
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05480

The Nature of the Radius Valley: Hints from Formation and Evolution Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05513

Paving the Way to Future Missions: the Roman Space Telescope Coronagraph Technology Demonstration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05624

Strong Scatterings of Cold Jupiters and their Influence on Inner Low-mass Planet Systems: Theory and Simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05698

Detection Limits of Low-mass, Long-period Exoplanets Using Gaussian Processes Applied to HARPS-N Solar RVs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05970

Where are the Extrasolar Mercuries?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05992

August 13, 2020 updates

The Gaia–Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. II. Planet Radius Demographics as a Function of Stellar Mass and Age
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba18a

ARES. II. Characterizing the Hot Jupiters WASP-127 b, WASP-79 b, and WASP-62b with the Hubble Space Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab94a3

Could the Migration of Jupiter have Accelerated the Atmospheric Evolution of Venus?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04927

Effects of Flux Variation on the Surface Temperatures of Earth-like Circumbinary Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04992

The GALAH Survey: Using Galactic Archaeology to Refine our Knowledge of TESS Target Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05372

Early science with SPIRou: near-infrared radial velocity and spectropolarimetry of the planet-hosting star HD 189733
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05411

Project Lyra: Catching 1I/’Oumuamua Using Nuclear Thermal Rockets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05435

Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Exoplanet LHS 3844b from 13 Ground-Based Transit Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05444