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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August 13, 2019 updates

Resonant Laplace-Lagrange theory for extrasolar systems in mean-motion resonance
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-019-9913-5

Biofluorescent Worlds I: Global Biological Fluorescence as a Biosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04089

Biofluorescent Worlds – II. Biological fluorescence induced by stellar UV flares, a new temporal biosignature
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06930

Higher Order Harmonics in the Light Curves of Eccentric Planetary Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.07078

Venus: Key to understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04269

Design Considerations for a Ground-Based Search for Transiting Planets around L and T Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03593

New Astronomy Reviews Special Issue: History of Kepler’s Major Exoplanet “Firsts”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03611

High-resolution Infrared Spectrograph for Exoplanet Characterization with the Keck and Thirty Meter Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03623

August 12, 2019 updates

Maximizing specific energy by breeding deuterium
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00834

A Long-Term Vision for Space-Based Interferometry
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190028276.pdf

Phobos LIFE (Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment)
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1904

Hidden Concepts in the History and Philosophy of Origins-of-Life Studies: a Workshop Report
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11084-019-09580-x

The potassium absorption on HD189733b and HD209458b
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slz123/5548780

Estimating dayside effective temperatures of hot Jupiters and associated uncertainties through Gaussian process regression
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2226/5548807

Analytic Planetary Transit Light Curves and Derivatives for Stars with Polynomial Limb Darkening
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03222

A Great Successor to the Hubble Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03277

Evolution of atmospheric escape in close-in giant planets and their associated Lyα and Hα transit predictions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03510

August 9, 2019 updates

Life May Be Common in the Milky Way, Thanks to Comet Swapping
https://www.space.com/life-spread-around-galaxy-panspermia.html

The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab2fe7

SiO2 – SiC mixtures at high pressures and temperatures: Implications for planetary bodies containing SiC
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JE005856

Relativistic Astronomy. III. test of special relativity via Doppler effect
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02985

Sulfate Aerosol Hazes and SO2 Gas as Constraints on Rocky Exoplanets’ Surface Liquid Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02769

Characterizing the Distribution of Parameters of Planets Found by Radial Velocity is Essential for Understanding Planet Formation and Evolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02771

Venus as a Laboratory for Exoplanetary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02783

August 8, 2019 updates

Intrinsic Climate Cooling
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1942

Search for gas from the disintegrating rocky exoplanet K2-22b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa34433-18/aa34433-18.html

Pileups and Migration Rates for Planets in Low Mass Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02326

The Mid-InfraRed Exo-planet CLimate Explorer MIRECLE: Exploring the Nearest M-Earths Through Ultra-Stable Mid-IR Transit and Phase-Curve Spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02356

LRG-BEASTS: transmission spectroscopy and retrieval analysis of the highly-inflated Saturn-mass planet WASP-39b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02358

Modelling atmospheric escape and MgII near-ultraviolet absorption of the highly irradiated hot Jupiter WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02527

Scaling Relations for Terrestrial Exoplanet Atmospheres from Baroclinic Criticality
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02661

Comet C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto): dislodged from the Oort Cloud or coming from interstellar space?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02666

The Nine Axes of Merit for Technosignature Searches
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02683

WFIRST and EUCLID: enabling the microlensing parallax measurement from space
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02720

Towards a Comprehensive Bibliography for SETI
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02587

August 7, 2019 updates

The “Terrascope”: On the Possibility of Using the Earth as an Atmospheric Lens
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00490

ESA Voyage 2050 White Paper: Detecting life outside our solar system with a large high-contrast-imaging mission
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01803

OWL-MOON : Very high resolution spectro-imaging and Earth-Moon interferometry: exoplanets to cosmology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02080

Uranus and Neptune are key to understand planets with hydrogen atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02092

Recurrence Network Analysis of Exoplanetary Observables
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02158

Clouds of Fluffy Aggregates: How They Form in Exoplanetary Atmospheres and Influence Transmission Spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02201

Biases in retrieving planetary signals in the presence of quasi-periodic stellar activity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02217