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 24, 2019 updates

Dispersed Matter Planet Project discoveries of ablating planets orbiting nearby bright stars
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0973-y

An ablating 2.6 M⊕ planet in an eccentric binary from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0972-z

A compact multi-planet system around a bright nearby star from the Dispersed Matter Planet Project
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0974-x

TOI 564 b and TOI 905 b: Grazing and Fully Transiting Hot Jupiters Discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10186

A search for the origin of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10213

Gemini-GRACES high-quality spectra of Kepler evolved stars with transiting planets I. Detailed characterization of multi-planet systems Kepler-278 and Kepler-391
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10278

The Detectability and Constraints of Biosignature Gases in the Near & Mid-Infrared from Transit Transmission Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10939

Orbital Stability of Circumstellar Planets in Binary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11019