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 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

November 13, 2019 Updates

The Dynamics of Interstellar Asteroids and Comets within the Galaxy: an Assessment of Local Candidate Source Regions for 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02473

Advanced curation of astromaterials for planetary science
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0615-9

Design and Optimization of Power Sources for
Deep Space Missions
https://www.ijresm.com/Vol.2_2019/Vol2_Iss10_October19/IJRESM_V2_I10_174.pdf

Hyperbolic Orbits in the Solar System: Interstellar Origin or Perturbed Oort Cloud Comets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04524

The Compositional Diversity of Low-Mass Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04598

HD 117214 debris disk: scattered light images and constraints on the presence of planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04793

Gravity-Darkening Analysis of Misaligned Hot Jupiter MASCARA-4 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05025

November 12, 2018 updates

Incorporating Lessons from Geoarchaeology and Geoforensics into the Search for Non-Terrestrial Agnostic Biosignatures
https://agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon19/mediafile/ExtendedAbstract/Paper482099/2019_AGU_AbSciCon_Submission_McGeeBW.pdf

Engineered Exogenesis: Nature’s Model for Interstellar Colonization
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/11/01/engineered-exogenesis-natures-model-for-interstellar-colonization/

Host Star Dependence of Small Planet Mass-Radius Distributions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03579

A Joint Mass-Radius-Period Distribution of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03582

A TESS Search for Distant Solar System Objects: Yield Estimates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03676

Dust in brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets. VII. Cloud formation in diffusive atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03777

Multilayer Perceptron and Geometric Albedo Spectra for Quick Parameter Estimations of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03997

Exoplanet Imitators: A test of stellar activity behavior in radial velocity signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04106

Characterizing Exoplanet Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04441

November 11, 2019 updates

ODEA: Orbital Dynamics in a complex Evolving Architecture – Application to the planetary system HD 106906
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935728

Magnetic Field Evolution in Terrestrial Bodies from Planetesimals to Exoplanets
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108290135.018

Habitable Zone Boundaries for Circumbinary Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab50cb

The Dynamics of Interstellar Asteroids and Comets within the Galaxy: an Assessment of Local Candidate Source Regions for 1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov
arxiv.org/abs/1911.02473

Frequency of Coronal Mass Ejection Impacts with Early Terrestrial Planets and Exoplanets Around Active Solar-like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02701

NGTS-8b and NGTS-9b: two non-inflated hot-Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02814

On one effect of coronal mass ejections influence on the envelopes of hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02880

Orbital Properties and Gravitational Waves Signatures of Strange Crystal Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02946

Habitable Zone Boundaries for Circumbinary Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02983

The Acceleration of Superrotation in Simulated Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03182

ACCESS: A Visual to Near-infrared Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b with Evidence of H2O, but no evidence of Na or K
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03358

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

Image formation process with the solar gravitational lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03260

Linking the evolution of terrestrial interiors and an early outgassed atmosphere to astrophysical observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08300

November 7, 2019 updates

New constraints on the HR 8799 planetary system from mid-infrared direct imaging
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3117/5614511

Habitable Zone Boundaries for Circumbinary Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab50cb

TOI-132 b: A short-period planet in the Neptune desert transiting a V=11.3 G-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02012

The Feasibility of Directly Imaging Nearby Cold Jovian Planets with MIRI/JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02022

The origin of the high metallicity of close-in giant exoplanets: Combined effect of the resonant and aerodynamic shepherding
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02292

Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-79b from 0.6 to 5.0 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02051

OGLE-2015-BLG-1771Lb: A Microlens Planet Orbiting an Ultracool Dwarf?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02439

The Dynamics of Interstellar Asteroids and Comets within the Galaxy: an Assessment of Local Candidate Source Regions for
1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02473