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 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

March 5, 2020 updates

Capability considerations for enhancing safety on long duration crewed missions: Insights from a technical interchange meeting on autonomous crew operations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896720300082

Pattern recognition in time series for space missions: A rosetta magnetic field case study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519314328

Joint Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging Planet Yield Calculations: I. Self-consistent Planet Populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01739

Assessment of astronomical images using combined machine learning models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01785

ExoReLR: A Bayesian Inverse Retrieval Framework For Exoplanetary Reflected Light Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01814

Breaking Resonant Chains: Destabilization of Resonant Planets due to Long-term Mass Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01965

Proxima Centauri b: A Strong Case for including Cosmic-Ray-induced Chemistry in Atmospheric Biosignature Studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02036