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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October 15, 2020 updates

Planetary system LHS 1140 revisited with ESPRESSO and TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/10/aa38922-20/aa38922-20.html

The cloudy shape of hot Jupiter thermal phase curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06934

Clouds in Three-Dimensional Models of Hot Jupiters Over a Wide Range of Temperatures I: Thermal Structures and Broadband Phase Curve Predictions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06936

Statistics of the Chemical Composition of Solar Analog Stars and Links to Planet Formation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07241

Impossible moons — Transit timing effects that cannot be due to an exomoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04230

October 14, 2020 updates

Out of a Silent Planet
https://geopolicraticus.tumblr.com/post/631920838097223680/out-of-a-silent-planet

Abundance measurements of H2O and carbon-bearing species in the atmosphere of WASP-127b confirm its super-solar metallicity
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3116/5922728

Search for radio emission from the exoplanets Qatar-1b and WASP-80b near 150 MHz using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06337

Exploring Super-Earth Surfaces: Albedo of Near-Airless Magma Ocean Planets and Topography
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06433

Chemical Fingerprints of Formation in Rocky Super-Earths’ Data
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06480

October 13, 2020 updates

Coupled Day-Night Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa3143/5921219

Change in the brightness of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063320303305

Statistical properties of habitable zones in stellar binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05585

Kozai Migration Naturally Explains the White Dwarf Planet WD1856b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04724

Measuring Transit Signal Recovery in the Kepler Pipeline IV: Completeness of the DR25 Planet Candidate catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04796

The Color of Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05046

Physically constrained causal noise models for high-contrast imaging of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05591

October 12, 2020 updates

Exoplanet Hunting in Deep Space with Machine Learning
https://www.journals.resaim.com/ijresm/article/view/323

Propulsion for Spacecrafts using on-board Laser Reflection and Absorption
https://engrxiv.org/fh6ez/

Sun-as-a-star Spectral Irradiance Observations of Transiting Active Regions
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abadf9

Towards a more complex description of chemical profiles in exoplanets retrievals: A 2-layer parameterisation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11180

Direct confirmation of the radial-velocity planet β Pic c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04442

Solid tidal friction in multi-layer planets: Application to Earth, Venus, a Super Earth and the TRAPPIST-1 planets. Can a multi-layer planet be approximated as a homogeneous planet?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04587

Europium as a lodestar: diagnosis of radiogenic heat production in terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04632

October 9, 2020 updates

Cardiovascular deconditioning during long-term spaceflight through multiscale modeling
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-020-00117-5

Stable climates for temperate rocky circumbinary planets
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JE006712

A Highly Eccentric Warm Jupiter Orbiting TIC 237913194
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03570

Microelectromechanical deformable mirror development for high-contrast imaging, part 2: the impact of quantization errors on coronagraph image contrast
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03704

Mutual detectability: a targeted SETI strategy that avoids the SETI Paradox
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04089

The TESS Phase Curve of KELT-1b Suggests a High Dayside Albedo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10292