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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January 22, 2020 updates

Spacecraft Guidance Sensing at Relativistic Velocities
https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-spacecraft-attitude-control/spacecraft-guidance-sensing-at-relativistic-velocities

On the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/on-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence-seti/F6EB673C1E3F670D1DE68588824636B1

The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) Mission Concept Study Final Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06683

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) III. Atmospheric structure of the misaligned ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06836

Detection of neutral atomic species in the ultra-hot jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07196

TOI-257b (HD 19916b): A Warm sub-Saturn on a Moderately Eccentric Orbit Around an Evolved F-type Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07345

Confirmation of WASP-107b’s extended Helium atmosphere with Keck II/NIRSPEC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.07667

January 17, 2020 updates

Aspects of Pulsar Navigation for Deep Space Mission Applications
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40295-019-00209-9

Regime-switching model detection map for direct exoplanet detection in ADI sequences
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/01/aa36421-19/aa36421-19.html

Expected performances of the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS) II. The CHEOPS simulator
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05587

A public HARPS radial velocity database corrected for systematic errors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05942

January 16, 2020 updates

Controversy over giant telescope roils astronomy conference in Hawaii
https://www.space.com/thirty-meter-telescope-controversy-roils-astronomy-conference.html

A low-mass planet candidate orbiting Proxima Centauri at a distance of 1.5 AU
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/3/eaax7467

Tidal disruption of planetary bodies by white dwarfs II: Debris disc structure and ejected interstellar asteroids
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa143/5707428

Visions of a Martian Future
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328720300045

Wind erosion on Mars and other small terrestrial planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103519302726

A toolbox for identifying the expression of dome-forming volcanism on exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063319302648