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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August 26, 2019 updates

Uniformly hot nightside temperatures on short-period gas giants
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0859-z

Detecting Planets from Direct-imaging Observations Using Common Spatial Pattern Filtering
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3642

A Real-Time Search for Interstellar Impacts on the Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08543

Estimation of singly-transiting K2 planet periods with Gaia parallaxes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08548

An 11 Earth-Mass, Long-Period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08585

August 23, 2019 updates

Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth
https://phys.org/news/2019-08-exoplanets-greater-variety-life-earth.html

The multiplicity distribution of Kepler’s exoplanets
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2350/5553998

Lamarck and Panspermia – On the Efficient Spread of Living Systems Throughout the Cosmos
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610719301129

Tidal circularization of gaseous planets orbiting white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08052

August 22, 2019 updates

Three Nearby K-Giants with Planets: Accurate Determination of Basic Parameters, Including an Analysis of Metallicity Based on Fe I Lines
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10511-019-09586-3

Calculating risk and payoff in planetary exploration and life detection missions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117719303539

Planetary systems in a star cluster I: the Solar system scenario
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07747

Do Androids Dream of Magnetic Fields? Using Neural Networks to Interpret the Turbulent Interstellar Medium
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00918

August 21, 2019 updates

Does the Evolution of Complex Life Depend on the Stellar Spectral Energy Distribution?
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1946

Geoscience for Understanding Habitability in the Solar System and Beyond
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0608-8

How Flow Isolation May Set the Mass Scale for Super-Earth Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06991

Hot Jupiters are Destroyed by Tides While Their Host Stars are on the Main Sequence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06998