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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April 21, 2020 updates

New HST data and modeling reveal a massive planetesimal collision around Fomalhaut
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/04/15/1912506117

The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1095-2

Unusually high CO abundance of the first active interstellar comet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1087-2

Focal Plane Wavefront Sensing with the FAST TGV Coronagraph
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab84c9

Searching for the near infrared counterpart of Proxima c using multi-epoch high contrast SPHERE data at VLT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06685

High-resolution Transmission Spectroscopy of MASCARA-2 b with EXPRES
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08415

OGLE-2017-BLG-0406: Spitzer Microlens Parallax Reveals Saturn-mass Planet orbiting M-dwarf Host in the Inner Galactic Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09067

WASP-4 transit timing variation from a comprehensive set of 129 transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09109

April 20, 2020 updates

Cheops observes its first exoplanets and is ready for science
http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Cheops_observes_its_first_exoplanets_and_is_ready_for_science

Mitigating flicker noise in high-precision photometry I. Characterization of the noise structure, impact on the inferred transit parameters, and predictions for CHEOPS observations
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37412-19/aa37412-19.html

The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets I. Outgassing of common rock and the stability of liquid water
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa36614-19/aa36614-19.html

Exoplanet System Kepler-2 with comparisons to Kepler-1 and 13
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07971

Inertial modes of a freely rotating ellipsoidal planet and their relation to nutations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08218

Frequency Modulation of Directly Imaged Exoplanets: Geometric Effect as a Probe of Planetary Obliquity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02898

Detectability of Molecular Signatures on TRAPPIST-1e through Transmission Spectroscopy Simulated for Future Space-Based Observatories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01338

April 17, 2020 updates

Possible Transfer of Life by Earth-Grazing Objects to Exoplanetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02235

H- and Dissociation in Ultra-hot Jupiters: A Retrieval Case Study of WASP-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07252

Colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams for Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07431

Simultaneous TESS and NGTS Transit Observations of WASP-166b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07589

TOI-1338: TESS’ First Transiting Circumbinary Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07783

The onset of instability in resonant chains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07789

April 16, 2020 updates

Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing. II. The radial-velocity tides and a tighter constraint on the orbital decay rate in the WASP-18 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06781

Concept for the GMT High-Contrast Exoplanet Instrument GMagAO-X and the GMT High-Contrast Phasing Testbed with MagAO-X
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06808

No consistent atmospheric absorption detected for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06859

Atmospheric stability and collapse on tidally locked rocky planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07134

Polar planets around highly eccentric binaries are the most stable
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07230

Survival of Primordial Planetary Atmospheres: Mass Loss from Temperate Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08820

April 15, 2020 updates

Space, the Final Frontier: In the Scientific Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life Away from Earth
https://www.academia.edu/42678316/Space_the_Final_Frontier_In_the_Scientific_Pursuit_of_Extraterrestrial_Life_Away_from_Earth

Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/earth-size-habitable-zone-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data

A Habitable-zone Earth-sized Planet Rescued from False Positive Status
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab84e5

Precise mass and radius of a transiting super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1235: a planet in the radius gap?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06218

Atmospheric Characterization via Broadband Color Filters on the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06396

Planetary transits at radio wavelengths: secondary eclipses of hot Jupiter extended atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06528

Two transiting hot Jupiters from the WASP survey: WASP-150b and WASP-176b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06622

TOI-1235 b: a keystone super-Earth for testing radius valley emergence models around early M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06682

Habitability is a continuous property of nature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06470