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 5, 2019 updates

Testing exoplanet evaporation with multi-transiting systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01609

Impact of Binary Stars on Planet Statistics — I. Planet Occurrence Rates, Trends with Stellar Mass, and Wide Companions to Hot Jupiter Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01699

Cool Jupiters greatly outnumber their toasty siblings: Occurrence rates from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01821

Evolution of the radius valley around low mass stars from Kepler and K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02170

December 4, 2019 updates

KELT-25b and KELT-26b: A Hot Jupiter and a Substellar Companion Transiting Young A-stars Observed by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01017

PlanetEvidence: Planet or Noise?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01232

Fourier series for eclipses on exoplanet binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01298

An apparently eccentric orbit of the exoplanet WASP-12 b as a radial velocity signature of planetary-induced tides in the host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01360

Effects of the general relativistic spin precessions on the habitability of rogue planets orbiting supermassive black holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01518

Habitability on local, Galactic and cosmological scales
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01569

December 3, 2019 updates

Multidimensional Habitability: Exploring the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
https://www.academia.edu/33461406/Multidimensional_Habitability_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Life_Beyond_Earth

No Snowball Cycles at the Outer Edge of the Habitable Zone for Habitable Tidally Locked Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab5957

The Structure and Stability of Extended, Inclined Circumplanetary Disk or Ring Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00034

A sub-Neptune sized planet transiting the M2.5-dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00291

Mutual Orbital Inclinations Between Cold Jupiters and Inner Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00387

December 2, 2019 updates

Detection of Na, K and H2O in the hazy atmosphere of WASP-6b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12628

Modeling the Thermal Bulge of A Hot Jupiter with the Two-Stream Approximation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12687

Machine learning inference of the interior structure of low-mass exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12745

RefPlanets: Search for reflected light from extra-solar planets with SPHERE/ZIMPOL
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12759

THOR 2.0: Major Improvements to the Open-Source General Circulation Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13158

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVII. A compact planetary system in a near 3:2 mean motion resonance chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13296