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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May 19, 2020 updates

An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrival
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/12/1921655117

Artificial Gravity in Interstellar Travel
https://zenodo.org/record/3747351

Planetary Spin and Obliquity from Mergers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07718

Atmospheric Escape of Close-in Giants around Hot Stars: Far-Ultraviolet Radiation and Photoelectric Heating Effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08676

Super-Rayleigh Slopes in Transmission Spectra of Exoplanets Generated by Photochemical Haze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08880

May 15, 2020 updates

A Numerical Method for Determining the Elements of Circumbinary Orbits and Its Application to Circumbinary Planets and the Satellites of Pluto-Charon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06498

Two examples of how to use observations of terrestrial planets orbiting in temperate orbits around low mass stars to test key concepts of planetary habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06512

A possible transit of a disintegrating exoplanet in the nearby multiplanet system DMPP-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.07086

May 13, 2020 updates

Predictions of cognitive detriments from galactic cosmic ray exposures to astronauts on exploration missions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552419301221

The GAPS programme at TNG XXII. The GIARPS view of the extended helium atmosphere of HD189733 b accounting for stellar activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05676

2I/Borisov and the Jets: Constraints on the Spin-Pole Orientation, Jet Morphology and Rotation of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov with Deep HST Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07386