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 16, 2019 updates

On‐the‐fly calculation of absorbed and equivalent atmospheric radiation dose in a water phantom with the AtRIS
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA026622

Capture of interstellar objects: a source of long-period comets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06338

Exporting Terrestrial Life Out of the Solar System with Gravitational Slingshots of Earthgrazing Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06414

How do Planetary Radius and Gravity Influence the Surface Climate of Earth-like Planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06479

Tidally-Induced Radius Inflation of Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06794

Detection of the nearest Jupiter analog in radial velocity and astrometry data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06804

Detection of ionized calcium in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06882

Nebula-Relay theory: a new theory about the origin of life on the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06396

October 15, 2019 updates

Exoclimes V 2019: The Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres, Oxford University
https://www.spacetv.net/exoclimes-v-conference-2019-oxford-university/

Nearly polar orbit of the sub-Neptune HD 3167 c – Constraints on the dynamical history of a multi-planet system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/11/aa35944-19/aa35944-19.html

Evaporating Planets in SNe Ia
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab4c97

Giant planet occurrence within 0.2 AU of low-luminosity red giant branch stars with K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05346

Circumbinary exoplanets and brown dwarfs with LISA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05414

The Effect of Land Fraction and Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution on the Planetary Albedo of Terrestrial Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05439

Precise radial velocities of giant stars XIII. A second Jupiter orbiting in 4:3 resonance in the 7 CMa system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05853

Asteroseismic Investigation of 20 Planet and Planet-Candidate Host
Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05942

No Snowball on Habitable Tidally Locked Planets with a Dynamic Ocean
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06285

October 14, 2019 updates

Helical Engine
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20190029657

Characterization of a Non-Stationary Spherical Inflated Light Sail for Ultra-Fast Interstellar Travel by Using Commercial 3D Codes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328028194_Characterization_of_a_Non-Stationary_Spherical_Inflated_Light_Sail_for_Ultra-Fast_Interstellar_Travel_by_Using_Commercial_3D_Codes

The Problem of Identifying Possible Signals of Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations in the Framework of the Information-Based Method
https://www.scirp.org/html/1-1721672_95549.htm

Solar sailing technology challenges
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1270963818314391

Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05224

October 11, 2019 updates

Electron cross-field transport mechanism observed under the azimuthally inhomogeneous neutral supply in a Hall thruster
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336231329

PEXO: a global modeling framework for nanosecond timing, microsecond astrometry, and μm/s radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01750

ROME/REA: A Gravitational Microlensing Search for Exoplanets Beyond the Snow Line on a Global Network of Robotic Telescopes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab3b19

Four newborn planets transiting the young solar analog V1298 Tau
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04563

The Fast Atmospheric Self-Coherent Camera Technique: Laboratory Results and Future Directions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04554

October 10, 2019 updates

A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) — I. Search for exoplanets and variable stars in the field of 47 Tuc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03592

In the Presence of a Wrecking Ball: Orbital Stability in the HR 5183 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03626

Breakthrough Listen Follow-up of the Random Transiter (EPIC 249706694/HD 139139) with the Green Bank Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03711

Stability of Nitrogen in Planetary Atmospheres in Contact with Liquid Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04111