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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October 1, 2019 updates

The polarimetric imaging mode of VLT/SPHERE/IRDIS I: Description, data reduction and observing strategy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13107

The polarimetric imaging mode of VLT/SPHERE/IRDIS II: Characterization and correction of instrumental polarization effects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13108

Exoplanet characterisation in the longest known resonant chain: the K2-138 system seen by HARPS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13527

An examination of the effect of the TESS extended mission on southern hemisphere monotransits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13546

September 30, 2019 updates

The Lost Planets: Peter van de Kamp and the Vanishing Exoplanets around Barnard’s Star
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lost-planets

The Habitability of GJ 357D: Possible Climate and Observability
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab3d40

What is Transiting HD 139139?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab465c

A toolbox for identifying the expression of dome-forming volcanism on exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319302648

Extrasolar Kuiper Belts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12312

NGTS-10b: The shortest period hot Jupiter yet discovered
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12424

On physical interpretations of the reference transit radius of gas-giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12639

September 27, 2019 updates

A giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12174

Nucleobase synthesis in interstellar ices
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12404-1

Kojima-1Lb is a Mildly Cold Neptune around the Brightest Microlensing Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11802

Planet and star synergy at high spectral resolution. A rationale for the characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres. I. The Infrared
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11807

Detection of CN gas in Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12144

September 26, 2019 updates

Exoplanet Habitability: Potential O2/O3 Biosignatures in the Ultraviolet
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S003809461905006X

Spin-orbit coupling for close-in planets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/10/aa36336-19/aa36336-19.html

Clues to Understanding the Microphysics of Dust in the Interstellar Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab46a6

Detection of Exoplanet as a Binary Source of Microlensing Events in WFIRST Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11559

A New Model Suite to Determine the Influence of Cosmic Rays on (Exo)planetary Atmospheric Biosignatures — Validation based on Modern Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11632

September 25, 2019 updates

Looking for Lurkers: Co-orbiters as SETI Observables
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3e35

Naming of New Interstellar Visitor: 2I/Borisov
https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau1910/

WFIRST Space Telescope Fitted for ‘Starglasses’
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/wfirst-space-telescope-fitted-for-starglasses

Performance and Early Science with the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics Project
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10522

Kruger 60 — a plausible home system of the interstellar comet C/2019 Q4
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10952