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 6, 2020 updates

Is the Faint Young Sun Problem for Earth Solved?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00711-9

Dust size and spatial distributions in debris discs: predictions for exozodiacal dust dragged in from an exo-Kuiper belt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01313

Losing Oceans: The Effects of Composition on the Thermal Component of Impact-driven Atmospheric Loss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01446

Impact of Tides on the Potential for Exoplanets to Host Exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01487

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) V. Detection of sodium on the bloated super-Neptune WASP-166b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01783

July 3, 2020 updates

A transition between the hot and the ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/07/aa37394-19/aa37394-19.html

The Hubble Space Telescope PanCET Program: An Optical to Infrared Transmission Spectrum of HAT-P-32Ab
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab96cb

The Star Tug: An active stellar engine capable of accelerating a star to relativistic velocities
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520304239

The K2 & TESS Synergy I: Updated Ephemerides and Parameters for K2-114, K2-167, K2-237, & K2-261
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00678

Tracing bulk elemental ratios in exoplanetary atmospheres with TiO chemistry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01066

Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system. Unraveling one of the densest planets known to date
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01081

July 2, 2020 updates

History of the Plurality of Worlds
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41448-1

A remnant planetary core in the hot-Neptune desert
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2421-7

The Venus Life Equation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00105

JWST Transit Spectra II: Constraining Aerosol Species, Particle-size Distributions, Temperature, and Metallicity for Cloudy Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00109

Tess asteroseismology of the known planet host star λ2 Fornacis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00497

July 1, 2020 updates

Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00703-9

A multiple planet system of super-Earths orbiting the brightest red dwarf star GJ887
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16372

Analysis of Close Stellar Encounters with the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16555

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Convective shift and starspot constraints from chromatic radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16608

Dyson Spheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16734

Dust Populations in the Iconic Vega Planetary System Resolved by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16257

Scaling K2. III. Comparable Planet Occurrence in the FGK Samples of Campaign 5 and Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16261