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 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

May 5, 2020 updates

Spaceship Earth
https://www.sundance.org/projects/spaceship-earth

Laboratory studies on the viability of life in H2-dominated exoplanet atmospheres
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1069-4

Visible and near-infrared observations of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov with the 10.4-m GTC and the 3.6-m TNG telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00786

The occurrence rate of exoplanets orbiting ultracool dwarfs as probed by K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01440

Stellar impact on disequilibrium chemistry and on observed spectra of hot Jupiter atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01470

Microlensed Radio Emission from Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01542

Testing Earth-like atmospheric evolution on exo-Earths through oxygen absorption: required sample sizes and the advantage of age-based target selection
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01587

Original Research By Young Twinkle Students (ORBYTS): Ephemeris Refinement of Transiting Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01684

HAZMAT VI: The Evolution of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Emitted from Early M Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01687

May 1, 2020 updates

Toward Complete Characterization: Prospects for Directly Imaging Transiting Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14396

Discovery and characterization of the exoplanets WASP-148b and c. A transiting system with two interacting giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14645

Atmospheric dynamics on terrestrial planets with eccentric orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14673

KELT-9 b’s Asymmetric TESS Transit Caused by Rapid Stellar Rotation and Spin-Orbit Misalignment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14812

Bayesian Methods for Joint Exoplanet Transit Detection and Systematic Noise Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.14893