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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December 19, 2019 updates

The Exo.MAST Table for JWST Exoplanet Atmosphere Observability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab62a1

Dim Prospects for Transmission Spectra of Ocean Earths Around M Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08235

Chemical abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the HARPS-GTO planet search sample. III. Sulfur
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08659

Tidal evolution of circumbinary systems with arbitrary eccentricities: applications for Kepler systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08728

Ozone chemistry on tidally locked M dwarf planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08743

Clouds will likely prevent the detection of water vapor in JWST transmission spectra of terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08781

December 18, 2019 updates

Power Systems for Miniature Interstellar Flyby Probe
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190033432.pdf

NameExoWorlds
http://www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/

JWST Guaranteed Time Observations
http://www.stsci.edu/jwst/observing-programs/approved-gto-programs

Holistic approach for studying planetary hydrospheres: Gibbs representation of ices thermodynamics, elasticity and the water phase diagram to 2300 MPa
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JE006176

TauREx III: A fast, dynamic and extendable framework for retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07759

Can close-in giant exoplanets preserve detectable moons?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08049

December 17, 2019 updates

A comparison of inner Solar System volcanism
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0944-3

K2 Looks Toward WASP-28 and WASP-151
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab5598

TESS Phase Curve of the Hot Jupiter WASP-19b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06773

Could star-planet magnetic interactions lead to planet migration and influence stellar rotation?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06867

Is pi Men c’s atmosphere hydrogen-dominated? Insights from a non-detecton of Hy Ly-alpha absorption
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06913

A new chemical scheme for giant planet thermochemistry. Update of the methanol chemistry and new reduced chemical scheme
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07246

Evolving Coma Morphology of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov with Deep HST Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07386

December 16, 2019 updates

Experimental Verification of a Bigrating Beam Rider
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.244302

Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets
https://smd-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/science-red/s3fs-public/atoms/files/FARSIDE_FinalRpt-2019-Nov8.pdf

The Mass Distribution of Transiting Exoplanets Corrected for Observational Selection Effects
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773719100049

Stepwise Earth oxygenation is an inherent property of global biogeochemical cycling
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6471/1333

Diffusion of volatiles in hot stagnant-lid regime planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319302922

Low Resolution Optical Spectra and Diatomic Carbon Detections of 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06161

The LUVOIR Mission Concept Study Final Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06219

December 13, 2019 updates

Approach to exploring interstellar objects and long-period comets
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/100202/

The K2-18b Planetary System: Estimates of the Age and X-UV Irradiances of a Habitable Zone “Wet” Sub-Neptune Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab6086

SWIMMERs: A Thought Experiment on the Potential and Limitations of Propellantless Interstellar Travel
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/12/12/swimmers-a-thought-experiment-on-the-potential-and-limitations-of-propellantless-interstellar-travel/

The young planetary system K2-25: constraints on companions and starspots
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05552

GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R⊕ planet transiting an M-dwarf at 20.4 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05556

Do the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Have Hydrogen-rich Atmospheres?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05749

Hot Super-Earths with Hydrogen Atmospheres: A Model Explaining Their Paradoxical Existence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05884

HST/STIS capability for Love number measurement of WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05889