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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April 17, 2019 updates

Foundations of Interstellar Studies Workshop 2019
https://www.fisw.space/fisw-2019

Planetary Exploration, Horizon 2061
https://h2061-tlse.sciencesconf.org/

Discovery of a Third Transiting Planet in the Kepler-47 Circumbinary System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07255

Observation of a possible superflare on Proxima Centauri
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slz054/5472906

Excitation of Planetary Obliquities Through Planet-Disk Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07338

Orbital decay of short-period gas giants under evolving tides
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07596

April 16, 2019 updates

Dual Use Exoplanet Telescope (DUET)
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/duet/

Power for Interstellar Fly-by
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Power_for_Interstellar_Fly_by/

Self-Guided Beamed Propulsion for Breakthrough Interstellar Missions
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Self_Guided_Beamed_Propulsion/

Diffractive Lightsails
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2019_Phase_I_Phase_II/Diffractive_Lightsails/

On the feasibility of studying the exospheres of Earth-like exoplanets by Lyman-α monitoring
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10686-018-9574-5

Indications for transit timing variations in the exo-Neptune HAT-P-26b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06360

On the Mass Function, Multiplicity, and Origins of Wide-Orbit Giant Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06438

Impacts of Quantum Chemistry Calculations on Exoplanetary Science, Planetary Astronomy, and Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07161

Discovery of a Meteor of Interstellar Origin
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07224

April 15, 2019 updates

Oumuamua and Scout ET Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04914

Gravitat: Proposal for a Standard Design Vessel for Space Settlement
https://space.nss.org/media/NSS-JOURNAL-Gravitat-Standard-Design-Vessel.pdf

Searching for Atmospheric Bioindicators in Planets around the Two Nearby Stars, Proxima Centauri and Epsilon Eridani—Test Cases for Retrieval of Atmospheric Gases with Infrared Spectroscopy
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1938

TESS Delivers Its First Earth-sized Planet and a Warm Sub-Neptune
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab12ed

The unbiased frequency of planetary signatures around single and binary white dwarfs using Spitzer and Hubble
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05891

Developing a vision for exoplanetary transit spectroscopy: a shared window on the analysis of planetary atmospheres and of stellar magnetic structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05976

Pushing the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery via Direct Imaging with Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06155

Dust-to-gas ratio resurgence in circumstellar disks due to the formation of giant planets: the case of HD 163296
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.04361

The fate of planetesimal discs in young open clusters: implications for 1I/’Oumuamua, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and more
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02465

April 12, 2019 updates

The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/eaau8650

Simulations of Water Vapor and Clouds on Rapidly Rotating and Tidally Locked Planets: A 3D Model Intercomparison
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f1

On degeneracies in retrievals of exoplanetary transmission spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05356

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics From 10-100 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05358

First Light of Engineered Diffusers at the Nordic Optical Telescope Reveal Time Variability in the Optical Eclipse Depth of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05362

Survival Rates of Planets in Open Clusters: the Pleiades, Hyades, and Praesepe clusters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08598

April 11, 2019 updates

Solar System Escape Mission with Solar Sail Spacecraft within a Framework of post-Newtonian Gravitational Theory
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.438

Do Alien Industrial Civilisations Exist?
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.443

Heat Transfer in Fusion Starship Radiation Shielding Systems
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.450

Stellar encounters with Giant Molecular Clouds
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz813/5437685

Precision characterization of the TESS CCD detectors: Quantum efficiency, charge blooming and undershoot effects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518304429

Global climate by Rossby number in the Solar system planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107619300806

Equatorial Kelvin-like waves on slowly rotating and/or small-sized spheres: Application to Venus and Titan
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103518304809

The binary mass ratios of circumbinary planet hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04832

Astro 2020 Science White Paper: Evolved Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04839

Transiting Planets near the Snow Line from Kepler. I. Catalog
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04980

Stars and exoplanets in Stokes IQUV: a decadal opportunity for HIRES at the ELT
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05075