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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November 20, 2019 updates

NASA Takes a Cue From Silicon Valley to Hatch Artificial Intelligence Technologies
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-takes-a-cue-from-silicon-valley-to-hatch-artificial-intelligence-technologies

Spain has permits to build giant telescope blocked in Hawaii
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-spain-giant-telescope-blocked-hawaii.html

The Search for Planet and Planetesimal Transits of White Dwarfs with the Zwicky Transient Facility
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07889

A Holistic and Probabilistic Approach to the Ground-based Data of HAT-P-19 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07903

Stability of exoplanetary systems retrieved from scalar time series
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07957

Transit Timing Variations of Five Transiting Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08331

ROME (Radio Observations of Magnetized Exoplanets). II. HD 189733 Does Not Accrete Significant Material from its Exoplanet like a T Tauri Star from A Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08357

Emergence of life in an inflationary universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08092

November 19, 2019 updates

Free-floating planets in the Milky Way
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40065-019-0267-3

3D Modeling of absorption by various species for hot jupiter HD209458b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3211/5628332

High-resolution reflection spectra for Proxima b and Trappist-1e models for ELT observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3213/5628343

Obliquity Evolution of Circumstellar Planets in Sun-like Stellar Binaries
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab46b5

When is chemical disequilibrium in Earth-like planetary atmospheres a biosignature versus an anti-biosignature? Disequilibria from dead to living worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06852

Periodic transit timing variations and refined system parameters of the exoplanet XO-6b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07054

An extremely low-density and temperate giant exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07355

Asteroseismology of the Multiplanet
System K2-93
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07519

Know thy star, know thy planet: Chemo-kinematically characterizing TESS targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07825

November 18, 2019 updates

Telescope Technology Needs for HabEx and LUVOIR
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190032599.pdf

Extremophiles: a special or general case in the search for extra-terrestrial life?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01144-1

Circumbinary Planetary Systems in the Solar Neighborhood: Stability and Habitability
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773719080097

NASA Instrument to Probe Planet Clouds on European Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-instrument-to-probe-planet-clouds-on-european-mission

Unravelling the neural network of torpor
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-unravelling-neural-network-torpor.html

Hibernation
https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/projects/hibernation.html

HyDRA-H: Simultaneous Hybrid Retrieval of Exoplanetary Emission Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab4efc

Toward a More Complex Description of Chemical Profiles in Exoplanet Retrievals: A Two-layer Parameterization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a14

New aluminium hydroxide at multimegabar pressures: Implications for water reservoirs in deep planetary interiors
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306274

CEESA meets machine learning: A Constant Elasticity Earth Similarity Approach to habitability and classification of exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133719300319

Idealised simulations of the deep atmosphere of hot jupiters: Deep, hot, adiabats as a robust solution to the radius inflation problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06546

Revisited Mass-Radius relations for exoplanets below 120 Earth masses
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04745

November 15, 2019 updates

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) IX: a flat transmission spectrum and a highly eccentric orbit for the young Neptune K2-25b as revealed by Spitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05744

Investigating the Planet-Metallicity Correlation for Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05830

Pre-discovery Activity of New Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Beyond 5 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05902

Sublimation of Water Ice from a Population of Large, Long-Lasting Grains Near the Nucleus of 2I/Borisov?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06271

Information in the Reflected Light Spectra of Widely Separated Giant Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06274

Electric sails are potentially more effective than light sails near
most stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02765

November 14, 2019 updates

Search for stellar companions of exoplanet host stars by exploring the second ESA-Gaia data release

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/490/4/5088/5622591

Dusty phenomena in the vicinity of giant exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/11/aa36521-19/aa36521-19.html

TESS Reveals HD 118203 b to be a Transiting Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05150

WASP-52b. The effect of starspot correction on atmospheric retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05179

TOI-677 b: A Warm Jupiter (P=11.2d) on an eccentric orbit transiting a late F-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05574

Constraining the magnitude of climate extremes from time-varying instellation on a circumbinary terrestrial planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05577

How to Characterize Habitable Worlds and Signs of Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05597