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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March 12, 2020 updates

The Impact of Molecular Oxygen on Anion Composition in a Hazy Archean Earth Atmosphere
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2145

Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2107-1

Resonance in the K2-19 system is at odds with its high reported eccentricities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04931

Dynamical instabilities in systems of multiple short-period planets are likely driven by secular chaos: a case study of Kepler-102
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05040

The reliability of the Titius-Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05121

Atmospheric compositions and observability of nitrogen dominated ultra-short period super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05354

Normalized Angular Momentum Deficit: a tool for comparing the violence of the dynamical histories of planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05366

A weak spectral signature of water vapour in the atmosphere of HD 179949 b at high spectral resolution in the L-band
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05397

March 11, 2020 updates

Hermeneutics as the Methodology of Interpretation of Languages and Texts of Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/hermeneutics-as-the-methodology-of-interpretation-of-languages-and-texts-of-extraterrestrial-intelligence

Photonic crystal lightsail with nonlinear reflectivity for increased stability
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-28-6-8223&id=428802

Comparing focal plane wavefront control techniques:\Numerical simulations and laboratory experiments
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04336

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. II: An Intrinsic Relation between Planetary System Occurrence and Spectral Type for Kepler’s FGK Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04348

Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. I. 17 New Planet Candidates Including 1 Habitable Zone World
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04397

Probability of simultaneous parallax detection for free-floating planet microlensing events near Galactic Centre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04504

LHS 1815b: The First Thick-Disk Planet Detected By TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04525

Detection of Fe I and Fe II in the atmosphere of MASCARA-2b using a cross-correlation method
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04650

Searching for Thermal Inversion Agents in the Transmission Spectrum of MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b: Detection of Neutral Iron and Ionised Calcium H&K Lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04856

Modelling the He I triplet absorption at 10830 Angstroms in the atmosphere of HD 209458 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04872

Re-inflation of warm and hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04877

Dynamical evolution of close-in binary systems formed by a super-earth and its host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575

March 9, 2020 updates

Solar One – A Proposal for The First Manned Interstellar Spaceship
https://engrxiv.org/qcrxa/

Prospectives in Deep Space Infrastructures, Development, and Colonization
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001142.pdf

TOI-677b: A Warm Jupiter (P = 11.2 days) on an Eccentric Orbit Transiting a Late F-type Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f67

Ogle-2018-blg-0677lb: A super earth near the galactic bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02983

Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03231

A statistical search for Star-Planet Interaction in the UltraViolet using GALEX
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03349

March 6, 2020 updates

PANOSETI: A Panoramic All-sky All-time Near InfraRed and Optical Technosignature Finder
https://oirlab.ucsd.edu/PANOSETI.html

Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378 𝑓?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37618-20/aa37618-20.html

Peas in a Pod? Radius correlations in Kepler multi-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02290

KMT-2019-BLG-1339L: an M Dwarf with a Giant Planet or a Companion Near the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02375

Orbital Refinement and Stellar Properties for the HD 9446, HD 43691, and HD 179079 Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02385

Accurate Machine Learning Atmospheric Retrieval via a Neural Network Surrogate Model for Radiative Transfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02430

Doppler Tomographic Measurement of the Nodal Precession of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02724