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 3, 2019 updates

Giant telescope set to rise on hallowed peak in Hawaii
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6447/1220

The Random Transiter — EPIC 249706694/HD 139139
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11268

Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-artificial-gravity-free-science-fiction.html

Artificial Gravity System Configurations Informed by Physiological Spin-Tolerance Research
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2018-5358

In-flight photometry extraction of PLATO targets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/07/aa35269-19

Chasing star-planet magnetic interactions: the case of Kepler-78
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01020

Synergies between space telescopes in the photometric characterization of the atmospheres of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01026

July 2, 2019 updates

Persistence of Technosignatures: A Comment on Lingam and Loeb
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2052

Testing gravity with interstellar precursor missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00006

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs — Photospheric parameters of target stars from high-resolution spectroscopy. II. Simultaneous multiwavelength range modeling of activity insensitive lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00807

Runaway climate cooling of ocean planets in the habitable zone: a consequence of seafloor weathering enhanced by melting of high-pressure ice
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00827

Pairwise Tidal Equilibrium States and the Architecture of Extrasolar Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00915

Bond strengthening in dense H2O and implications to planetary composition
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11990

High order regularised symplectic integrator for collisional planetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13240

July 1, 2019 updates

A sub-Neptune exoplanet with a low-metallicity methane-depleted atmosphere and Mie-scattering clouds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0800-5

The natural history of ‘Oumuamua
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0816-x

An emission spectrum for WASP-121b measured across the 0.8– wavelength range using the Hubble Space Telescope
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1753/5524368

Close-in Sub-Neptunes Reveal the Past Rotation History of Their Host Stars: Atmospheric Evolution of Planets in the HD 3167 and K2-32 Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.12153

A Gap in the Mass Distribution for Warm Neptune and Terrestrial Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11865

The Application of International Human Rights Instruments in Outer Space Settlements: Today’s Science Fiction, Tomorrow’s Reality
https://journals.assaf.org.za/index.php/per/article/download/5904/7781/

June 28, 2019 Updates

Ploonets: formation, evolution, and detectability of tidally detached exomoons
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11400

Overcast on Osiris: 3D radiative-hydrodynamical simulations of a cloudy hot Jupiter using the parameterised, phase-equilibrium cloud formation code EddySed
https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph/new

Upper limits on protolunar disc masses using ALMA observations of directly-imaged exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11774

TESS mission finds its smallest planet yet
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-finds-its-smallest-planet-yet

Moving Beyond Definitions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1980

Hot, rocky and warm, puffy super-Earths orbiting TOI-402 (HD 15337)
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/07/aa35457-19/aa35457-19.html

The L 98-59 System: Three Transiting, Terrestrial-size Planets Orbiting a Nearby M Dwarf
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2459

June 27, 2019 updates

Main instrument for NASA’s WFIRST mission completes milestone review
https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3366-main-instrument-for-nasa-s-wfirst-mission-completes-milestone-review

Constraints on HD 113337 fundamental parameters and planetary system: Combining long-base visible interferometry, disc imaging, and high-contrast imaging
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/07/aa35494-19

TESS Hunt for Young and Maturing Exoplanets (THYME): A planet in the 45 Myr Tucana-Horologium association
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10703

Nearly Polar orbit of the sub-Neptune HD3167 c: Constraints on a multi-planet system dynamical history
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11013

KMT-2018-BLG-0029Lb: A Very Low Mass-Ratio Spitzer Microlens Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11183

The Atmosphere
https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04481