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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July 20, 2020 updates

Magnetic levitational bioassembly of 3D tissue construct in space
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/29/eaba4174

NGTS-11 b (TOI-1847 b): A Transiting Warm Saturn Recovered from a TESS Single-transit Event
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab9eb9

A significant mutual inclination between the planets within the π Mensae system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08549

Exogeoscience and Its Role in Characterizing Exoplanet Habitability and the Detectability of Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08665

The influence of bulk composition on long-term interior-atmosphere evolution of terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09021

July 17, 2020 updates

NASA delays JWST launch by seven months
https://spacenews.com/nasa-delays-jwst-launch-by-seven-months/

Exoplanet Transients: Possible Variations in the Limb-Darkening Coefficients of Eclipsed Stars at Short Time Intervals
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063772920080016

New Photometric Analysis of Hot Jupiter: WASP-135b
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1384107620300506

K2-280b — a low density warm sub-Saturn around a mildly evolved star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07939

July 16, 2020 updates

EXPRES. I. HD 3651 as an Ideal RV Benchmark
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab99c9

Global Analysis of the TRAPPIST Ultra-Cool Dwarf Transit Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07278

GJ 3470 c: A Saturn-like Exoplanet Candidate in the Habitable Zone of GJ 3470
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07373

The origins of nearly coplanar, non-resonant systems of close-in super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07385

Role of the impact parameter in exoplanet transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07716

ExoTiC-ISM: A Python package for marginalised exoplanet transit parameters across a grid of systematic instrument models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07828

July 15, 2020 updates

A Rayleigh-Ritz-method-based approach to computing seismic normal modes in rotating terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11082

The SPHERE infrared survey for exoplanets (SHINE). III. The demographics of young giant exoplanets below 300 au with SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06573

Hidden Worlds: Dynamical Architecture Predictions of Undetected Planets in Multi-planet Systems and Applications to TESS Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06745

KMT-2019-BLG-2073: Fourth Free-Floating-Planet Candidate with θE<10μas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06870

Stellar Oblateness versus Distant Giants in Exciting Kepler Planet Mutual Inclinations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06991

Will Gravitational Waves Discover the First Extra-Galactic Planetary System?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07010

A warm Jupiter transiting an M dwarf: A TESS single transit event confirmed with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07098

HATS-37Ab and HATS-38b: Two Transiting Hot Neptunes in the Desert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07135

July 14, 2020 updates

Interstellar Probe: The Next Step
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..22.6119M/abstract

Interstellar Probe: Pushing the Frontier of Space Science
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020EGUGA..2219605B/abstract

Optomechanics of a stable diffractive axicon light sail
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00542-1

On the survival of resonant and non-resonant planetary systems in star clusters
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa2047/5870702

Detectability of Thermal Emission from Sub-Relativistic Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.04892

Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06521

HAT-P-58b — HAT-P-64b: Seven Planets Transiting Bright Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05528

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). I. Bern global model of planet formation and evolution, model tests, and emerging planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05561

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). II. Planetary population of solar-like stars and overview of statistical results
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05562

The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS). III. Warm super-Earths and cold Jupiters: a weak occurrence correlation, but a strong architecture-composition link
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05563

A Fast, 2D Gaussian Process Method Based on Celerite: Applications to Transiting Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.05799

Search for helium in the upper atmosphere of the hot Jupiter WASP-127 b using Gemini/Phoenix
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06216

A precise architecture characterization of the π Men planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06410

The role of clouds on the depletion of methane and water dominance in the transmission spectra of irradiated exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06562