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 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

January 14, 2020 updates

In-Space Manufacturing: The Gateway to the High Frontier and an Enabling Technology for Human Space Exploration
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200000035.pdf

Natural intelligence and anthropic reasoning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01109

Understanding the atmospheric properties and chemical composition of the ultra-hot Jupiter HAT-P-7b II. Mapping the effects of gas kinetics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03668

Simulated mass measurements of the young planet K2-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04304

January 10, 2020 updates

Extremophilic models for astrobiology: haloarchaeal survival strategies and pigments for remote sensing
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01126-3

Detecting Interstellar Objects Through Stellar Occultations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02681

Kepler-1661 b: A Neptune-sized Kepler Transiting Circumbinary Planet around a Grazing Eclipsing Binary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.02840

Near-ultraviolet Transmission Spectroscopy of HD 209458b: Evidence of Ionized Iron Beyond the Planetary Roche Lobe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03126

Magnitude and direction of the local interstellar magnetic field inferred from Voyager 1 and 2 interstellar data and global heliospheric model
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03061