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 12, 2020 updates

Growth on Carbohydrates from Carbonaceous Meteorites Alters the Immunogenicity of Environment-Derived Bacterial Pathogens
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2173

A new set of atmosphere and evolution models for cool T–Y brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/05/aa37381-19/aa37381-19.html

Earths in Other Solar Systems N-body simulations: the Role of Orbital Damping in Reproducing the Kepler Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04233

Inflation of Migrated Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04927

An Unusual Transmission Spectrum for the Sub-Saturn KELT-11b Suggestive of a Sub-Solar Water Abundance
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.05153

May 8, 2020 updates

Dynamic Orbital Slingshot for Rendezvous with Interstellar Objects
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Dynamic_Orbital_Slingshot/

Deceleration of Interstellar Spacecraft Utilizing Antimatter
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2020_Phase_I_Phase_II/Deceleration_of_Interstellar_Spacecraft_Utilizing_Antimatter/

Biosignature Surveys to Exoplanet Yields and Beyond
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa1284/5834560

Design considerations for relativistic laser sails
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576520302836

Simulating the Multi-Epoch Direct Detection Technique to Isolate the Thermal Emission of the Non-Transiting Hot Jupiter HD187123B
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03020

Modeling Radial Velocity Data of Resonant Planets to Infer Migration Histories
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03034

The PHOENIX Exoplanet Retrieval Algorithm and Using H− Opacity as a Probe in Ultra-hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03056

Oxidation of the Interiors of Carbide Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03175

The GAPS Programme at TNG — XXIII. HD 164922 d: a close-in super-Earth discovered with HARPS-N in a system with a long-period Saturn mass companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03368

May 7, 2020 updates

Cosmic Anarchy and Its Consequences
https://medium.com/@KevinKohlerFM/cosmic-anarchy-and-its-consequences-b1a557b1a2e3

Determining the nature of motion around Jupiter-like exoplanets using the elliptic restricted three-body problem
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319304313

Photometry and Performance of SPECULOOS-South
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02423

UV Exoplanet Transmission Spectral Features as Probes of Metals and Rainout
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02528

Alkaline Exospheres of Exoplanet Systems: Evaporative Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02536

The Hubble PanCET program: Transit and Eclipse Spectroscopy of the Strongly Irradiated Giant Exoplanet WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02568

Why do warm Neptunes present nonzero eccentricity?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02700

May 6, 2020 updates

A Practical Guide for Selecting and Utilizing Pulsars for Galactic Navigation
http://dses.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/19-A-Practical-Guide-for-Selecting-and-Utilizing-Pulsars-for-Galactic-Navigation.pdf

The Italian National Project of Astrobiology—Life in Space—Origin, Presence, Persistence of Life in Space, from Molecules to Extremophiles
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2020.2247

A Coupled Analysis of Atmospheric Mass Loss and Tidal Evolution in XUV Irradiated Exoplanets: the TRAPPIST-1 Case Study
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01740

Consistently Simulating a Wide Range of Atmospheric Scenarios for K2-18b with a Flexible Radiative Transfer Module
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02114

Increasing the raw contrast of VLT/SPHERE with the dark hole technique. I. Simulations and validation on the internal source
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02179

ARES I: WASP-76 b, A Tale of Two HST Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02374