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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July 22, 2019 updates

Magnetic field strengths of hot Jupiters from signals of star–planet interactions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0840-x

Evolution of the obliquity of an exoplanet: a non-resonant case
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518303634

Four Small Planets Buried in K2 Systems: What Can We Learn for TESS?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08244

Transit timing variations in the WASP-4 planetary system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08269

Astro2020 Project White Paper: PolyOculus — Low-cost Spectroscopy for the Community
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08273

July 19, 2019 updates

Phytoclimatic mapping of exoplanets
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/phytoclimatic-mapping-of-exoplanets/68C46D4C29719FC6E7602B60DCD561FF

How much of the Solar System should we leave as wilderness?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576517318507

Enabling the next generation of scientific discoveries by embracing photonic technologies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07742

Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems. I: A Clustered Forward Model for Exoplanetary Systems around Kepler’s FGK Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07773

The Intrinsic Temperature and Radiative-Convective Boundary Depth in the Atmospheres of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07777

The Social Sciences Interdisciplinarity for Astronomy and Astrophysics — Lessons from the History of NASA and Related Fields
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07800

Technosignatures in the Thermal Infrared
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07829

Technosignatures in Transit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07830

Searches for Technosignatures in Astronomy and Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07831

Searches for Technosignatures: The State of the Profession
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07832

The multiplicity distribution of Kepler’s exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08148

July 18, 2019 updates

Disruptive Space Technologies and Innovations
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22188-1

Breakthrough Listen launches new optical search with Arizona’s VERITAS telescope array
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/26

A Possible Advantage of Telescopes with a Noncircular Pupil
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab27c7

A Relationship between Blue and Near‐IR Global Spectral Reflectance and the Response of Global Average Reflectance to Change in Cloud Cover Observed from DSCOVR EPIC
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019EA000664

High-resolution transmission spectroscopy of four hot inflated gas giant exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07267

Role of planetary obliquity in regulating atmospheric escape: G-dwarf vs. M-dwarf Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07459

Constraining the initial planetary population in the gravitational instability model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07584

July 16, 2019 updates

HATS-54b–HATS-58Ab: Five New Transiting Hot Jupiters Including One with a Possible Temperate Companion
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab26bb

Small Planets in the Galactic Context: Host Star Kinematics, Iron, and Alpha-element Enhancement
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab27c9

The Hubble PanCET program: an extensive search for metallic ions in the exosphere of GJ 436 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05906

Final spin states of eccentric ocean planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06451

Kepler Object of Interest Network III. Kepler-82f: A new non-transiting 21M⨁ planet from photodynamical modelling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06534

Habitable Snowballs: Temperate Land Conditions, Liquid Water, and Implications for CO2 Weathering
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.00511

The Equation of State of MH-III: a possible deep CH4 reservoir in Titan, Super-Titan exoplanets and moons
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07925