August 2020 News skycharts and research papers

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Edwin Rod

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Aug 24, 2020, 6:33:21 AM8/24/20
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Hi everyone

 

Please find all the usual newsletters, starcharts and papers attached.

Its Covid level level 2 for us in Wellington and NZ until Sunday night (29th Aug) and its level 3 for the Auckland region, I have one or two links on Covid for those who might be interesting, in the attached notepad file.

There sure is no shortage of interesting articles this month and a lot to get through. Did the Sun form with another star? A binary companion? Interesting research suggests it might have, with intriguing implications for the proposed outer ice giant Planet. Ganymede has always been a Moon of interest for me and this month there is a look at a big impact basin on the moon and the tidal heating of Jupiter’s Moons.  There is also an interesting look at a Star that is just big enough to be on the main sequence. How many habitable planets can you fit around a Star? Its an interesting question that is answered this month. There is a look at a very high density Neptune planet and a look at the Trappist planets too.

 

Andrew from the UK has also summed up nicely some top stories from the month too.

 

Cheers Edwin

 

 

Research papers


Surface and oceanic habitability of Trappist-1 planets under the impact of flares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09147

Magma ocean evolution of the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09599

Potential For Liquid Water Biochemistry Deep Under The Surfaces Of The Moon, Mars And Beyond
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08709

Isotopically distinct terrestrial planets via local accretion
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.08850

High-resolution survey for planetary companions to young stars in the Taurus Molecular Cloud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06065

Quantifying the information impact of future searches for exoplanetary biosignatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07586

Detection of ten new planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07998

Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07647

An eclipsing M-dwarf close to the hydrogen burning limit from NGTS
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07354

Powering the Galilean Satellites with Moon-Moon Tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02825

The Science Case for a Titan Flagship-class Orbiter with Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05680

Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Exoplanet LHS 3844b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05444

Effects of Flux Variation on the Surface Temperatures of Earth-like Circumbinary Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04992

Could the Migration of Jupiter have Accelerated the Atmospheric Evolution of Venus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04927

Differing Enceladean ocean circulation and ice shell geometries driven by tidal heating
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03764

Non-detection of O2/O3 informs frequency of Earth-like planets with LUVOIR but not HabEx
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03952

Water worlds in N-body simulations with fragmentation in systems without gaseous giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03594

Monte Carlo estimation of the probability of causal contacts between communicating civilisations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03597

A Long-Lived Sharp Disruption on the Lower Clouds of Venus
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL087221

The Habitable-zone Planet Finder Reveals A High Mass and a Low Obliquity for the Young Neptune K2-25b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12766

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/08/07/a-dense-sub-neptune-challenges-formation-theories/

An astrometric planetary companion candidate to the M9 Dwarf TVLM 513-46546
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01595

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/08/05/saturn-class-exoplanet-is-a-win-for-astrometry/
http://spaceref.com/extrasolar-planets/radio-telescopes-find-extrasolar-planet-around-main-sequence-star.html


The Habitability of the Galactic Bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01419

Stellar Pulsation and the Production of Dust and Molecules in Galactic Carbon Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11401

Prebiotic precursors of the primordial RNA world in space
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00228

Exoplanets Sciences with Nulling Interferometers and a Single-Mode Fiber-Fed Spectrograph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15529

Asteroid impact, Schumann resonances and the end of dinosaurs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15463

Observing Earth from the Moon to prepare for detecting life on Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.16078

Dynamical Packing in the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13962

The stability of tightly-packed, evenly-spaced systems of Earth-mass planets orbiting a Sun-like star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08426

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/08/04/a-tight-fit-planets-in-the-habitable-zone/

Oceanic and atmospheric methane cycling in the cGENIE Earth system model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15053

Colors of an Earth-like exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15624

investigating the biological potential of galactic cosmic ray-induced radiation-driven chemical disequilibrium in the Martian subsurface
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68715-7

Near-parabolic comets observed in 2006-2010
https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0563

No evidence for interstellar planetesimals trapped in the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04534

The Science Case for Spacecraft Exploration of the Uranian Satellites
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07284

Can Volcanism Build Hydrogen-Rich Early Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.12037



Using a real-world network to model localized COVID-19 control strategies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1036-8


Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzn5a/theoretical-physicists-say-90-chance-of-societal-collapse-within-several-decades


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Interesting News items


New Zealand Astrophotography Weekend 2020
http://www.horoastronomy.org.nz/upcoming-events/astrophotography-weekend


'Shallow Lightning' and 'Mushballs' Reveal Ammonia to NASA's Juno Scientists
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7721


Vincent Van Gogh’s art comes alive and larger than life on Wellington waterfront
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/122282691/vincent-van-goghs-art-comes-alive-and-larger-than-life-on-wellington-waterfront

The People’s Space Odyssey: 2010: The Year We Make Contact
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/07/31/the-peoples-space-odyssey-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/


The scramble for space at Earth’s outer limits
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/423083/the-scramble-for-space-at-earth-s-outer-limits

The Unraveling of America   
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206





Further links and discussion can be found at the groups/links below

Astronomy in New Zealand - Groups.io
Astronomy in New Zealand - Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5889909863/
RASNZ_20_08_2020.txt
STCEnews20200820.pdf
All charts 2009.pdf
The Case for an Early Solar Binary Companion.pdf
Could the Migration of Jupiter have Accelerated the Atmospheric Evolution of Venus.pdf
Deforestation and world population sustainability a quantitative analysis.pdf
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