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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December 11, 2018 updates

Stellar energetic particles in the magnetically turbulent habitable zones of TRAPPIST-1-like planetary systems
https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~ffrasche/TRAPPIST.pdf

Helping astronauts breathe in space: with RUAG and micro-algae
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/2439-helping-astronauts-breathe-in-space-with-ruag-and-micro-algae

Re-analyzing the Dynamical Stability of the HD 47366 Planetary System
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaef32

Detecting circumbinary exoplanets and hierarchical stellar triples with the LISA gravitational radiation mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03438

Exoplanet Clouds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03793

Cloud Atlas: Hubble Space Telescope Near-Infrared Spectral Library of Brown Dwarfs, Planetary-mass companions, and hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03963

December 10, 2018 updates

A Rapid, Low-Cost Approach to Permanently Extend Life Beyond Earth
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180007936.pdf

Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures
https://www.agnosticbiosignatures.org/

Pulsed Magnetic Nozzle for Fusion Propulsion
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.119

Fission Fragment Rocket: Fuel Production and Structural Considerations
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.126

Flying on a Rainbow: A Solar-Driven Diffractive Sailcraft
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.130

Evaluation of the Hazard of Dust Impacts on Interstellar Spacecraft
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.133

A Science-Driven Mission to an Exoplanet
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.140

Contact with Alien Biomes: Possible Biochemical Incompatibilities
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2018.71.151

Incidence of planet candidates in open clusters and a planet confirmation
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2018/12/aa33123-18/aa33123-18.html

Measuring precise radial velocities and cross-correlation function line-profile variations using a Skew Normal density
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12718

A Transmission Spectrum Of HD 189733b From Multiple Broadband Filter Observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/sty3368/5237730

Detecting Ocean Glint on Exoplanets Using Multiphase Mapping
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aaed3a

Angular Momentum of Stars and their Planets
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aae6b1

High-Resolution Transit Spectroscopy of Warm Saturns
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02748

Investigating the presence of two belts in the HD15115 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02750

Dynamical origin of S-type planets in close binary stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02754

A ground-based NUV secondary eclipse observation of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02773

Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03119

December 7, 2018 updates

Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030114510

Spectrally resolved helium absorption from the extended atmosphere of a warm Neptune-mass exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02189

Ground-based detection of an extended helium atmosphere in the Saturn-mass exoplanet WASP-69b
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/12/06/science.aat5348

Introduction: Detectability of Future Earth
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328718304683

Planet-star interactions with precise transit timing. I. The refined orbital decay rate for WASP-12 b and initial constraints for HAT-P-23 b, KELT-1 b, KELT-16 b, WASP-33 b, and WASP-103 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02438

Detection of He I λ10830 Å absorption on HD 189733 b with CARMENES high-resolution transmission spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02453

The imprint of X-ray photoevaporation of planet-forming discs on the orbital distribution of giant planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02173

December 6, 2018 updates

First Light for SPECULOOS
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1839a/

The Orbital Period Prior for Single Transits
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/aaf50c

qpower2 – a fast and accurate algorithm for the computation of exoplanet transit light curves with the power-2 limb-darkening law
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01606

Shadow Imaging of Transiting Objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01618

Obliquity Tides May Drive WASP-12b’s Rapid Orbital Decay
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01624

Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the sdB Binary NY Virginis: An Updated Two Planet Solution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01726

Evolutionary models of cold and low-mass planets: Cooling curves, magnitudes, and detectability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02027

Observability of hydrogen-rich exospheres in Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02145

December 5, 2018 updates

Orbit Orientation of the Planet in τ Boo (HD 120136)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1990341318040090

These dusty young stars are changing the rules of planet-building
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07591-8

A novel mixture model using the multivariate normal mean–variance mixture of Birnbaum–Saunders distributions and its application to extrasolar planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047259X18300599

Solar System Formation in the Context of Extra-Solar Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01033

Towards new solutions for scientific computing: the case of Julia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01219

Inclined Massive Planets in a Protoplanetary Disc: Gap Opening, Disc Breaking, and Observational Signatures
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01262

Transit analysis of the CoRoT-5, CoRoT-8, CoRoT-12, CoRoT-18, CoRoT-20, and CoRoT-27 systems with combined ground- and space-based photometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01536