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 4, 2020 updates

The effect of high nitrogen pressures on the habitable zone and an appraisal of greenhouse states
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa603/5780240

Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-resolved Observations of Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 106906b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f65

A free-floating or wide-orbit planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0551
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01126

A pair of TESS planets spanning the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf LTT 3780
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01136

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LP 729-54
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01140

Follow-up imaging observations of comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01457

Disentangling Atmospheric Compositions of K2-18 b with Next Generation Facilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01486

March 3, 2020 updates

NASA Approves Development of Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-approves-development-of-universe-studying-planet-finding-mission

Why do warm Neptunes present nonzero eccentricity?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/03/aa36967-19/aa36967-19.html

Exoplanet Occurrence Rates of Mid M-dwarfs Based on Kepler DR25
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab7afd

Laser-driven high-velocity microparticle launcher in atmosphere and under vacuum
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734743X19306402

General Relativity Theory for Navigation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339389635_PREPRINT_GENERAL_RELATIVITY_THEORY_FOR_NAVIGATION

High-resolution spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry of the total lunar eclipse January 2019
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08690

The white dwarf planet WD J0914+1914 b: barricading potential rocky pollutants?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00020

Birth environment of circumbinary planets: are there CBPs on the inclined orbits?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00375

Into the UV: A precise transmission spectrum of HAT-P-41b using Hubble’s WFC3/UVIS G280 grism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00536

March 2, 2020 updates

Modeling and simulating a regenerative life support system to understand the effects of system interaction on survivability during deep space missions
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:dc29a485-a014-454f-9dde-aff5bb133c1d

TYCHO — Realistically Simulating Exoplanets within Stellar Clusters I: Improving the Monte Carlo Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12375

Indexing Exoplanets with Physical Conditions Potentially Suitable for Rock-Dependent Extremophiles
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12650

Achieving the required mobility in the solar system through Direct Fusion Drive
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12686

February 28, 2020 updates

The reliability of the Titius–Bode relation and its implications for the search for exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pasj/psz146/5763006

Birth environment of circumbinary planets: are there circumbinary planets on inclined orbits?
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/493/2/1907/5764173

The UV surface habitability of Proxima b : first experiments revealing probable life survival to stellar flares
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slaa037/5762693

Frequency of Planets in Binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11734

Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11871

Planets in Binaries: Formation and Dynamical Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12006

February 27, 2020 updates

A probabilistic analysis of the Fermi paradox in terms of the Drake formula: the role of the L factor
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa512/5741733

Grand challenges for nanophotonics: Steering and riding light
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/101355/

Energy-sensitive Detectors for Astronomy: Past, Present and Future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1387647320300038

High-Energy and High-Quality Ion beams in Light Sail Acceleration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11563

The interior and atmosphere of the habitable-zone exoplanet K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11115

Fingerprints of giant planets in the composition of solar twins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11135

Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378f?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11422