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 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

July 15, 2019 updates

Superfast Exoplanets and 9600 s
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11038-019-09526-3

Simulating Radial Velocity Observations of Trappist-1 with SPIRou
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05710

Searching the Moon for Extrasolar Material and the Building Blocks of Extraterrestrial Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05427

Do the planets in the HD 34445 system really exist?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05495

The Composition and Mineralogy of Rocky Exoplanets: A Survey of >4,000 Stars from the Hypatia Catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05506

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05519

Simulating the interaction of a non-magnetized planet with the stellar wind produced by a sun-like star using the FLASH Code
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05480

Transit least-squares survey — II. Discovery and validation of 17 new sub- to super-Earth-sized planets in multi-planet systems from K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09038

July 11, 2019 updates

Language Development During Interstellar Travel
http://people.ku.edu/~a326m085/LanguageDevelopmentInInterstellarTravel-0429.pdf

Combining high contrast imaging and radial velocities to constrain the planetary architecture of nearby stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04334

SETI in the Spatio-Temporal Survey Domain
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04443

Diffuser-Assisted Infrared Transit Photometry for Four Dynamically Interacting \textit{Kepler} Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04445

July 10, 2019 updates

Expanding the Timeline for Earth’s Photosynthetic Red Edge Biosignature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab2769

Transiting Quasites as a Possible Technosignature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab2fdb

Simulations of a High-Contrast Single-Mode Fiber Coronagraphic Multi-Object Spectrograph for Future Space Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.03921

WASP-166b: a bloated super-Neptune transiting a V = 9 star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05292