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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April 15, 2020 updates

Space, the Final Frontier: In the Scientific Pursuit of Extraterrestrial Life Away from Earth
https://www.academia.edu/42678316/Space_the_Final_Frontier_In_the_Scientific_Pursuit_of_Extraterrestrial_Life_Away_from_Earth

Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/earth-size-habitable-zone-planet-found-hidden-in-early-nasa-kepler-data

A Habitable-zone Earth-sized Planet Rescued from False Positive Status
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab84e5

Precise mass and radius of a transiting super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1235: a planet in the radius gap?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06218

Atmospheric Characterization via Broadband Color Filters on the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06396

Planetary transits at radio wavelengths: secondary eclipses of hot Jupiter extended atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06528

Two transiting hot Jupiters from the WASP survey: WASP-150b and WASP-176b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06622

TOI-1235 b: a keystone super-Earth for testing radius valley emergence models around early M dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06682

Habitability is a continuous property of nature
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06470

April 14, 2020 updates

Center for Astrobiology: Toward the RNA-World in the Interstellar Medium—Detection of Urea and Search of 2-Amino-oxazole and Simple Sugars
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2125

Tidal fragmentation as the origin of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1065-8

Stability analysis of three exoplanet systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa847/5819459

Searching the Entirety of Kepler Data. II. Occurrence Rate Estimates for FGK Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05296

April 10, 2020 updates

Dust Environment Model of the Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8455

Molecular Cross Sections for High Resolution Spectroscopy of Super Earths, Warm Neptunes and Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04160

Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Habitable Planet Atmospheres: Impact of New H2O Cross-Sections
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04185

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

April 9, 2020 updates

Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich rocky planets more irradiated than the runaway greenhouse limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08878

Updated Parameters and a New Transmission Spectrum of HD 97658b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03601

Detectability of Life Using Oxygen on Pelagic Planets and Water Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03631

Global Mapping of the Surface Composition on an Exo-Earth using Color Variability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03931

Global Mapping of an Exo-Earth using Sparse Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03941

The Astrobiological Copernican Weak and Strong Limits for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.03968