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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March 9, 2020 updates

Solar One – A Proposal for The First Manned Interstellar Spaceship
https://engrxiv.org/qcrxa/

Prospectives in Deep Space Infrastructures, Development, and Colonization
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20200001142.pdf

TOI-677b: A Warm Jupiter (P = 11.2 days) on an Eccentric Orbit Transiting a Late F-type Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f67

Ogle-2018-blg-0677lb: A super earth near the galactic bulge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02983

Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03231

A statistical search for Star-Planet Interaction in the UltraViolet using GALEX
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03349

March 6, 2020 updates

PANOSETI: A Panoramic All-sky All-time Near InfraRed and Optical Technosignature Finder
https://oirlab.ucsd.edu/PANOSETI.html

Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378 𝑓?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/03/aa37618-20/aa37618-20.html

Peas in a Pod? Radius correlations in Kepler multi-planet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02290

KMT-2019-BLG-1339L: an M Dwarf with a Giant Planet or a Companion Near the Planet/Brown Dwarf Boundary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02375

Orbital Refinement and Stellar Properties for the HD 9446, HD 43691, and HD 179079 Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02385

Accurate Machine Learning Atmospheric Retrieval via a Neural Network Surrogate Model for Radiative Transfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02430

Doppler Tomographic Measurement of the Nodal Precession of WASP-33b
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02724

March 5, 2020 updates

Capability considerations for enhancing safety on long duration crewed missions: Insights from a technical interchange meeting on autonomous crew operations
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468896720300082

Pattern recognition in time series for space missions: A rosetta magnetic field case study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519314328

Joint Radial Velocity and Direct Imaging Planet Yield Calculations: I. Self-consistent Planet Populations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01739

Assessment of astronomical images using combined machine learning models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01785

ExoReLR: A Bayesian Inverse Retrieval Framework For Exoplanetary Reflected Light Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01814

Breaking Resonant Chains: Destabilization of Resonant Planets due to Long-term Mass Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01965

Proxima Centauri b: A Strong Case for including Cosmic-Ray-induced Chemistry in Atmospheric Biosignature Studies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02036

March 4, 2020 updates

The effect of high nitrogen pressures on the habitable zone and an appraisal of greenhouse states
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/staa603/5780240

Cloud Atlas: High-precision HST/WFC3/IR Time-resolved Observations of Directly Imaged Exoplanet HD 106906b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab6f65

A free-floating or wide-orbit planet in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0551
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01126

A pair of TESS planets spanning the radius valley around the nearby mid-M dwarf LTT 3780
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01136

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two planets on the opposite sides of the radius gap transiting the nearby M dwarf LP 729-54
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01140

Follow-up imaging observations of comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01457

Disentangling Atmospheric Compositions of K2-18 b with Next Generation Facilities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.01486

March 3, 2020 updates

NASA Approves Development of Universe-Studying, Planet-Finding Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-approves-development-of-universe-studying-planet-finding-mission

Why do warm Neptunes present nonzero eccentricity?
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/03/aa36967-19/aa36967-19.html

Exoplanet Occurrence Rates of Mid M-dwarfs Based on Kepler DR25
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab7afd

Laser-driven high-velocity microparticle launcher in atmosphere and under vacuum
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0734743X19306402

General Relativity Theory for Navigation
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339389635_PREPRINT_GENERAL_RELATIVITY_THEORY_FOR_NAVIGATION

High-resolution spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry of the total lunar eclipse January 2019
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08690

The white dwarf planet WD J0914+1914 b: barricading potential rocky pollutants?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00020

Birth environment of circumbinary planets: are there CBPs on the inclined orbits?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00375

Into the UV: A precise transmission spectrum of HAT-P-41b using Hubble’s WFC3/UVIS G280 grism
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00536