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 10, 2020 updates

Observing The Growth Of Breathable O2 Producer In High And Low Pressure And Light Conditions
https://spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/sites/spacegrant.oregonstate.edu/files/roodzack-5bf8q_presentation.pdf

Power Beaming Leakage Radiation as a Technosignature Observable
https://www.essoar.org/doi/abs/10.1002/essoar.10503872.1

Heat and charge transport in H2O at ice-giant conditions from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17275-5

Ground-Based Transmission Spectroscopy with FORS2: A featureless optical transmission spectrum and detection of H2O for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-103b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2307/5885344

Thermal Variations of Extremely Close-in Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/abacb9

The challenge of identifying interstellar meteors
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320302737

Monitoring of transiting exoplanets and their host stars with small aperture telescopes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620301457

Multiple Explanations for the Single Transit of KIC 5951458 based on Radial Velocity Measurements Extracted with a Novel Matched-template Technique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02811

Tidal dissipation in evolving low-mass and solar-type stars with predictions for planetary orbital decay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03262

August 7, 2020 updates

Pixel Level Decorrelation in Service of the Spitzer Microlens Parallax Survey
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2245/5881942

The effect of galactic chemical evolution on terrestrial exoplanet composition and tectonics
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103520303869

A Large Repository of 3D Climate Model Outputs for Community Analysis and Postprocessing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02339

A white dwarf bound to the transiting planetary system WASP-98
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02533

Multiple Transits during a Single Conjunction: Identifying Transiting Circumbinary Planetary Candidates from TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02756

Inverse design of surfaces by deployable origami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02349

August 6, 2020 updates

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Near-UV and Optical Transmission Spectrum of Earth as an Exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba0b4

Characterization of the Atmosphere of Super-Earth 55 Cancri e Using High-resolution Ground-based Spectroscopy
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aba1eb

Planck Frequencies as Schelling Points in SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01817

A Library of Self-Consistent Simulated Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01856

Venus as a Nearby Exoplanetary Laboratory
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01888

August 5, 2020 updates

An Astrometric Planetary Companion Candidate to the M9 Dwarf TVLM 513–46546
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01595

Primordial Radius Gap and Potentially Broad Core Mass Distributions of Super-Earths and Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01105

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — A deep learning approach to determine fundamental parameters of target stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01186

A dayside thermal inversion in the atmosphere of WASP-19b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01288

The Habitability of the Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01419

August 4, 2020 updates

Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for relativistic lightsail propulsion
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00768

Low-albedo Surfaces of Lava Worlds
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9cba

Detection of Fe i Emission in the Dayside Spectrum of WASP-33b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aba4b6

LRG-BEASTS: Ground-based Detection of Sodium and a Steep Optical Slope in the Atmosphere of the Highly Inflated Hot-Saturn WASP-21b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00971

Colour-magnitude diagrams of transiting Exoplanets — III. A public code, nine strange planets, and the role of Phosphine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00995

The dynamical evolution of close-in binary systems formed by a super-Earth and its host star. Case of the Kepler-21 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575