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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January 10, 2019 updates

A Wild ‘Interstellar Probe’ Mission Idea Is Gaining Momentum
https://www.space.com/42935-nasa-interstellar-probe-mission-idea.html

Signs of life on a global scale: Earth as a laboratory for exoplanet biosignatures
http://www.portlandpresspublishing.com/sites/default/files/biochemist/Biochemist%20Space%20issue%20Dec%202018/BioDEC18_exoplanet%20biosignatures%20pg%2022.pdf

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

Testing the Detectability of Extraterrestrial O2 with the ELTs using Real Data with Real Noise
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02469

The Oxyometer: A Novel Instrument Concept for Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02562

On the formation of our solar system and many other protoplanetary systems observed by ALMA and SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02593

Conundrums and constraints concerning the formation of our solar system — An alternative view
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02594

Short life and abrupt death of PicSat, a small 3U CubeSat dreaming of exoplanet detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02677

Time-variable electromagnetic star-planet interaction: The TRAPPIST-1 system as an exemplary case
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02747

Secular spin-axis dynamics of exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02831

Review: Far-Infrared Instrumentation and Technology Development for the Next Decade
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02389

January 9, 2019 updates

Young planets orbiting red dwarfs may lack ingredients for life
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2521-young-planets-orbiting-red-dwarfs-may-lack-ingredients-for-life

NASA’s TESS Rounds Up its First Planets, Snares Far-flung Supernovae
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1542/nasas-tess-rounds-up-its-first-planets-snares-far-flung-supernovae/

Why planetary and exoplanetary protection differ: The case of long duration genesis missions to habitable but sterile M-dwarf oxygen planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02286

Transit Least Squares: An optimized transit detection algorithm to search for periodic transits of small planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02015

Killing Planet Candidates with EVEREST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02017

Time-resolved image polarimetry of Trappist-1 during planetary transits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02041

The Rise of ROME (Radio Observations of Magnetized Exoplanets) I. A Multiwavelength Analysis of the Star-Planet Interaction in the HD 189733 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02048

Assessing the Intrinsic Uncertainty and Structural Stability of Planetary Models: 1) Parameterized Thermal-Tectonic History Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02136

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs – The enigmatic planetary system GJ 4276: One eccentric planet or two planets in a 2:1 resonance?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02367

The secondary transit of the hot Jupiter WASP-121b at 2 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02383

January 8, 2019 updates

Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beamer: Concept, Costs and Realities
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/07/ultrahigh-acceleration-neutral-particle-beamer-concept-costs-and-realities/

Charge generating devices and methods of making and use thereof
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/71/3f/3f/4710d6cb02da8d/US20180372891A1.pdf

Scientists pleased with TESS exoplanet mission
https://spacenews.com/scientists-pleased-with-tess-exoplanet-mission/

Comparing Non-Redundant Masking and Filled-Aperture Kernel Phase for Exoplanet Detection and Characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01266

Photosynthesis on habitable planets around low-mass stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01270

Rotational Light Curves of Jupiter from UV to Mid-Infrared and Implications for Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01323

Estimation of Planetary Photometric Emissions for Extremely Close-in Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01361

A gap in HD 92945’s broad planetesimal disc revealed by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01406

Two Super-Earths in the 3:2 MMR around KOI-1599
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01435

The BEBOP radial-velocity survey for circumbinary planets I. Eight years of CORALIE observations of 47 single-line eclipsing binaries and abundance constraints on the masses of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01627

A Hot Saturn Orbiting An Oscillating Late Subgiant Discovered by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01643

Analytic solutions to the maximum and average exoplanet transit depth for common stellar limb darkening laws
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01730

Close-in Super-Earths: The first and the last stages of planet formation in an MRI-accreting disc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01800

The XUV irradiation and likely atmospheric escape of the super-Earth π Men c
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01875

Star-disc (mis-)alignment in Rho Oph and Upper Sco: insights from spatially resolved disc systems with K2 rotation periods
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01929

Two Jovian planets around the giant star HD202696. A growing population of packed massive planetary pairs around massive stars?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01935

Revisiting the Long-Period Transiting Planets from Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01974

Modeling microlensing events with MulensModel
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.01003

January 7, 2019 updates

Astrosociology and the Search for Technosignatures
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1517

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-1122

Dynamics and Estimation of Origami-Inspired Deployable Space Structures: A Review
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-0480

Assuring Spacecraft Swarm Byzantine Resilience
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-0224

Data Reduction Pipeline of the TOU Optical Very High Resolution Spectrograph and Its sub-m s−1 Performance
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz028/5274148

Close-in Super-Earths: The first and the last stages of planet formation in an MRI-accreting disc
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz004/5274141

K2-288Bb: A Small Temperate Planet in a Low-mass Binary System Discovered by Citizen Scientists
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafa70

Project Lyra: Sending a spacecraft to 1I/’Oumuamua (former A/2017 U1), the interstellar asteroid
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317004

Study of terrestrial glints based on DSCOVR observations
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018EA000509

Flat Spectrum Radio Continuum Emission Associated with ε Eridani
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00903

January 4, 2019 updates

Ultrahigh Acceleration Neutral Particle Beam-Driven Sails
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/01/03/ultrahigh-acceleration-neutral-particle-beam-driven-sails/

Precovery of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Single Transits with Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf23c

VLT/SPHERE Multiwavelength High-contrast Imaging of the HD 115600 Debris Disk: New Constraints on the Dust Geometry and the Presence of Young Giant Planets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaf1bd

Bifurcation in the Growth of Continental Crust
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031920118301924

HAZMAT. V. The Ultraviolet and X-ray Evolution of K Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00502

Wobble: a data-driven method for precision radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00503

Re-Evaluating Small Long-Period Confirmed Planets From Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00506

Turning up the heat on `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00508

The atmospheric circulation and climate of terrestrial planets orbiting Sun-like and M-dwarf stars over a broad range of planetary parameters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00567

Physics of Planet Trapping with Applications to HL Tau
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00778