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 6, 2019 updates

The Curious Case of KOI 4: Confirming Kepler’s First Exoplanet Detection
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~dhuber/docs/kepler1658-accepted.pdf

Spitzer Detection of the Transiting Jupiter-analog Exoplanet Kepler-167e
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01478

Self-Assembling Ice Membranes on Europa: Brinicle Properties, Field Examples, and Possible Energetic Systems in Icy Ocean Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01584

MOVES II. Tuning in to the radio environment of HD189733b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01809

Planet migration in wind-fed accretion disks in binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01873

March 5, 2019 updates

Exoplanet Exploration Program Science Plan Appendix
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/system/internal_resources/details/original/1089_ExEP_SciencePlanAppendix_v1.2.pdf

Astrobiology: From the Origins of Life to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-3639-3

Obliquity-driven sculpting of exoplanetary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01386

Erratum: A library of ATMO forward model transmission spectra for hot Jupiter exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10269

Predator-Prey Behaviour in Self-Replicating Interstellar Probes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00770

Catalog of New K2 Exoplanet Candidates from Citizen Scientists
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00474

Filtering solar-like oscillations for exoplanet detection in radial velocity observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00657

Atmospheres on Nonsynchronized Eccentric-tilted Exoplanets I: Dynamical Regimes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00907

Atmospheres on Nonsynchronized Eccentric-tilted Exoplanets II: Thermal Light Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00908

March 4, 2019 updates

Handbook of Astrobiology
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351661119

Detection and Doppler monitoring of K2-285 (EPIC 246471491), a system of four transiting planets smaller than Neptune
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/03/aa34001-18/aa34001-18.html

KELT-23b: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Near-Solar Twin Close to the TESS and JWST Continuous Viewing Zones
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00031

Mass-Radius relationship for M dwarf exoplanets: Comparing nonparametric and parametric methods
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00042

A Spectroscopic Analysis of the California-Kepler Survey Sample: I. Stellar Parameters, Planetary Radii and a Slope in the Radius Gap
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00174

Exoplanet host-star properties: the active environment of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00234

From Dark Energy to Exolife: Improving the Digital Information Infrastructure for Astrophysics
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00297

Using Deep Neural Networks to compute the mass of forming planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00320

February 28, 2019 updates

University research center will search for extraterrestrial intelligence
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/university-research-center-will-search-extraterrestrial-intelligence

The Penn State Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center
http://pseti.psu.edu/

A Search for Technosignatures from TRAPPIST-1, LHS 1140, and 10 Planetary Systems in the Kepler Field with the Green Bank Telescope at 1.15–1.73 GHz
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab0105

Detectable molecular features above hydrocarbon haze via transmission spectroscopy with JWST: Case studies of GJ 1214b, GJ 436b, HD 97658b, and Kepler-51b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10151

A Near-coplanar Stellar Flyby of the Planet Host Star HD 106906
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10220