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 6, 2019 updates

Direct Fusion Drive for Interstellar Exploration
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.37

Intermediate Beamers for Starshot: Probes to the Sun’s Inner Gravity Focus
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.51

Reality, The Breakthrough Initiatives and Prospects for Colonization of Space
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.56

A Gravitational Wave Transmitter
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.62

Accounting for Multiplicity in Calculating Eta Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01032

MOA-bin-29b : A Microlensing Gas Giant Planet Orbiting a Low-mass Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01239

Outgassing As Trigger of 1I/`Oumuamua’s Nongravitational Acceleration: Could This Hypothesis Work at All?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00935

May 1, 2019 updates

HD 2685 b: a hot Jupiter orbiting an early F-type star detected by TESS
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/05/aa34640-18/aa34640-18.html

Detection of Planetary and Stellar Companions to Neighboring Stars via a Combination of Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging Techniques
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12931

The Formation of Habitable Planets in the Four-Planet System HD 141399
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.13120

Equatorial anti-rotating day side wind flow in WASP-43b elicited by deep wind jets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.13334

April 30, 2019 updates

The California-Kepler Survey. VIII. Eccentricities of Kepler Planets and Tentative Evidence of a High-metallicity Preference for Small Eccentric Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1009

The ExoEarth Yield Landscape for Future Direct Imaging Space Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.11988

Effects of Radius and Gravity on the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12267

Detecting Exoplanet Transits through Machine Learning Techniques with Convolutional Neural Networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12419

A planetary system around the nearby M dwarf Gl 357 including a transiting hot Earth-sized planet optimal for atmospheric characterisation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12818

Collisional formation of detectable exomoons of super-terrestrial exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12854

Low-Eccentricity Migration of Ultra-Short Period Planets in Multi-Planet Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08258