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 16, 2019 updates

Experimental Verification of a Bigrating Beam Rider
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.244302

Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets
https://smd-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/science-red/s3fs-public/atoms/files/FARSIDE_FinalRpt-2019-Nov8.pdf

The Mass Distribution of Transiting Exoplanets Corrected for Observational Selection Effects
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773719100049

Stepwise Earth oxygenation is an inherent property of global biogeochemical cycling
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6471/1333

Diffusion of volatiles in hot stagnant-lid regime planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032063319302922

Low Resolution Optical Spectra and Diatomic Carbon Detections of 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06161

The LUVOIR Mission Concept Study Final Report
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06219

December 13, 2019 updates

Approach to exploring interstellar objects and long-period comets
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/100202/

The K2-18b Planetary System: Estimates of the Age and X-UV Irradiances of a Habitable Zone “Wet” Sub-Neptune Planet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab6086

SWIMMERs: A Thought Experiment on the Potential and Limitations of Propellantless Interstellar Travel
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/12/12/swimmers-a-thought-experiment-on-the-potential-and-limitations-of-propellantless-interstellar-travel/

The young planetary system K2-25: constraints on companions and starspots
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05552

GJ 1252 b: A 1.2 R⊕ planet transiting an M-dwarf at 20.4 pc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05556

Do the TRAPPIST-1 Planets Have Hydrogen-rich Atmospheres?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05749

Hot Super-Earths with Hydrogen Atmospheres: A Model Explaining Their Paradoxical Existence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05884

HST/STIS capability for Love number measurement of WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05889

December 12, 2019 updates

Circumbinary exoplanets and brown dwarfs with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/12/aa36729-19/aa36729-19.html

Searching for Planets Orbiting α Cen A with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab5066

Design and Experimental Test of a Common-path Coherent-dispersion Spectrometer for Exoplanet Searches
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab503a

Mass-Metallicity Trends in Transiting Exoplanets from Atmospheric Abundances of H2O, Na, and K
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04904

Searching for water ice in the coma of interstellar object 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05318

Climate bistability of Earth-like exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05392

The Nucleus of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05422

December 11, 2019 updates

Searching for a standard Drake equation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01783

Planetary Astrobiology
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/planetary-astrobiology

The Helical Engine
http://people.uncw.edu/ganl/phy335/project/group-A/Calton-Landon.pdf

The Young Suns Exoplanet Survey: Detection of a wide orbit planetary mass companion to a solar-type Sco-Cen member
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04284

Upper Limits on Planet Occurrence around Ultracool Dwarfs with K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04286

Constraining Orbital Periods from Nonconsecutive Observations: Period Estimates for Long-Period Planets in Six Systems Observed by K2 During Multiple Campaigns
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04287

Constraints on Aquatic Photosynthesis for Terrestrial Planets Around Other Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04301

The Influence of Stellar Contamination on the Interpretation of Near Infrared Transmission Spectra of Sub-Neptune Worlds around M-Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04389

December 10, 2019 updates

The Exoplanets Channel
https://exoplanetschannel.wixsite.com/home

Water Vapor and Clouds on the Habitable-zone Sub-Neptune Exoplanet K2-18b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab59dc

FLAMINGOS-2 Infrared Photometry of 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab5f69

Future stellar flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03503

The circumstellar environment of 55 Cnc: The super-Earth 55 Cnc e as a primary target for star-planet interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03736

Star-planet interaction through spectral lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03778

KMT-2019-BLG-0842Lb: A Cold Planet Below the Uranus/Sun Mass Ratio
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03822