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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May 30, 2019 updates

Interstellar Workshop on 20-21 June 2019
https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/news/2019-05-08-interstellar_exploration_workshop.html

A New View of Exoplanets With NASA’s Upcoming Webb Telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/a-new-view-of-exoplanets-with-nasa-s-webb-telescope

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Emerges Successfully from Final Thermal Vacuum Test
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-emerges-successfully-from-final-thermal-vacuum-test

Examining the Radius Valley: a Machine Learning Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12048

Carbon cycling and interior evolution of water-covered plate tectonics and stagnant lid planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12392

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12491

Revisiting the pulsational characteristics of the exoplanet host star β Pictoris
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12545

May 28, 2019 updates

Advanced Diffractive MetaFilm Sailcraft NIAC Phase I Final Report
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190025234.pdf

Nuclear microbomb propulsion for manned deep space exploration with return travel
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519306101

Formation Design of Distributed Telescopes in Earth Orbit for Astrophysics Applications
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.A34420

Transit-period search from single-event space-based data: the role of wide-field surveys
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/05/aa35349-19

An Ensemble of Bayesian Neural Networks for Exoplanetary Atmospheric Retrieval
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10659

Characterization of the L 98-59 multi-planetary system with HARPS: two confirmed terrestrial planets and a mass upper limit on the third
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10669

The Revised TESS Input Catalog and Candidate Target List
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10694

Constraints on HD113337 fundamental parameters and planetary system. Combining long-base visible interferometry, disk imaging and high-contrast imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11156

Precise photometric transit follow-up observations of five close-in exoplanets : update on their physical properties
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.11258

Gradient-index Solar Sail and its Optimal Orbital Control
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10977

May 27, 2019 updates

Universe Sandbox ²
http://universesandbox.com/

OGLE-2015-BLG-1670Lb: A Cold Neptune beyond the Snow Line in the Provisional WFIRST Microlensing Survey Field
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab141b

The Transcension Hypothesis: Sufficiently Advanced Civilizations May Invariably Leave Our Universe, and Implications for METI and SETI.
https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis.html

Transiting exocomets detected in broadband light by TESS in the β Pictoris system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/05/aa35552-19

Human Colonization of Other Worlds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/futures/vol/110/suppl/C

AutoRegressive Planet Search: Application to the Kepler Mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09852

Distinguishing Polar and Co-planar Circumbinary Exoplanets by Eclipsing Timing Variations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10179