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 14, 2020 updates

Center for Astrobiology: Toward the RNA-World in the Interstellar Medium—Detection of Urea and Search of 2-Amino-oxazole and Simple Sugars
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2125

Tidal fragmentation as the origin of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1065-8

Stability analysis of three exoplanet systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa847/5819459

Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. II. Occurrence Rate Estimates for FGK Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05296

April 10, 2020 updates

Dust Environment Model of the Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8455

Molecular Cross Sections for High Resolution Spectroscopy of Super Earths, Warm Neptunes and Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04160

Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross-Sections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04185

Impossible moons — Transit timing effects that cannot be due to an exomoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04230

April 9, 2020 updates

Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich rocky planets more irradiated than the runaway greenhouse limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08878

Updated Parameters and a New Transmission Spectrum of HD 97658b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03601

Detectability of Life Using Oxygen on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03631

Global Mapping of the Surface Composition on an Exo-Earth using Color Variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03931

Global Mapping of an Exo-Earth using Sparse Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03941

The Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong Limits for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03968

April 8, 2020 updates

Multidimensional Habitability: Exploring the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
https://www.academia.edu/33461406/Multidimensional_Habitability_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Life_Beyond_Earth

Antimatter Propulsion
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001904.pdf

Atmospheric convection plays a key role in the climate of tidally-locked terrestrial exoplanets: insights from high-resolution simulations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03007

Tidal Oscillations of Rotating Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03094

Optical to near-infrared transmission spectrum of the warm sub-Saturn HAT-P-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03551