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 3, 2019 updates

Lethal Radiation from Nearby Supernovae Helps Explain the Small Cosmological Constant
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1895

The Longest Period TESS Planet Yet: A Sub-Neptune Transiting A Bright, Nearby K Dwarf Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00051

Accounting for Incompleteness due to Transit Multiplicity in Kepler Planet Occurrence Rates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00196

Breezing through the space environment of Barnard’s Star b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00219

Stellar Flares from the First Tess Data Release: Exploring a New Sample of M-dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00443

January 1, 2019 updates

Dust bombardment can explain the extremely elongated shape of 1I/’Oumuamua and the lack of interstellar objects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11334

Modular Inflatable Composites for Space Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11667

Microlensing Results Challenge the Core Accretion Runaway Growth Scenario for Gas Giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11785

Exoplanets in the Antarctic Sky. I. The First Data Release of AST3-II (CHESPA) and New Found Variables within the Southern CVZ of TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.11907

December 31, 2018 updates

Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) –Phase I Report
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20180008679.pdf

Propellant-less Propulsion from Quantised Inertia
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329754104_Propellant-less_Propulsion_from_Quantised_Inertia

Overstable Convective Modes of Rotating Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10598

Secondary eclipses of WASP-18b — Near Infrared observations with the Anglo Australian Telescope, the Magellan Clay Telescope and the LCOGT network
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10623

December 28, 2018 updates

Computer Simulations of Space Societies
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319905594

What We Know About Extraterrestrial Intelligence
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319444550

The Ethics of Space Exploration
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319398259

Dissent, Revolution and Liberty Beyond Earth
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319293479

Human Governance Beyond Earth
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319180625

The Meaning of Liberty Beyond Earth
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319095660

Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319105505

New Comparative Metric for Evaluating Spacecraft Radiation Shielding
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.A34360

December 27, 2018 updates

Cold Hibernated Elastic Memory Structure: Self-Deployable Technology and Its Applications
https://www.crcpress.com/Cold-Hibernated-Elastic-Memory-Structure-Self-Deployable-Technology-and/Sokolowski/p/book/9780429425950

Exoplanet Imaging from Space: EXCEDE & Expectations
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/12/26/exoplanet-imaging-from-space-excede-expectations/

HATS-71b: A giant planet transiting an M3 dwarf star in TESS Sector 1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09406

The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey X. Stellar spots versus Rayleigh scattering: the case of HAT-P-11b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10154

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Searching Boyajian’s Star for Laser Line Emission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10161

Stability of a rotating asteroid housing a space station
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10436