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 9, 2019 updates

How to Find an Interstellar Comet: A Q&A with Discoverer Gennady Borisov
https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-discoverer-interview-gennady-borisov.html

The Trans-Neptunian Solar System (Chapters 15 and 16)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128164907/the-trans-neptunian-solar-system

Stellar engines: Design considerations for maximizing acceleration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576519312457

XO-7 b: A transiting hot Jupiter with a massive companion on a wide orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02821

Habitable Age Instead of Location for Terrestrial Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02862

December 6, 2019 updates

Atmospheric dynamics in high obliquity planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518305906

The dynamical history of the evaporating or disrupted ice giant planet around white dwarf WD J0914+1914
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02199

Signatures of Clouds in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Modeled High Resolution Emission Spectra from 3D General Circulation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02268

O2- and CO-Rich Atmospheres for Potentially Habitable Environments on TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02313

Cold giant planets evaporated by hot white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02345

A Linear Formation Flying Astronomical Interferometer in Low Earth Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02350

Superabundance of Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes Explained by Fugacity Crisis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02701

Wind of Change: retrieving exoplanet atmospheric winds from high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02787

Interstellar communication network. I. Overview and assumptions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02616

December 5, 2019 updates

Testing exoplanet evaporation with multi-transiting systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01609

Impact of Binary Stars on Planet Statistics — I. Planet Occurrence Rates, Trends with Stellar Mass, and Wide Companions to Hot Jupiter Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01699

Cool Jupiters greatly outnumber their toasty siblings: Occurrence rates from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01821

Evolution of the radius valley around low mass stars from Kepler and K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02170

December 4, 2019 updates

KELT-25b and KELT-26b: A Hot Jupiter and a Substellar Companion Transiting Young A-stars Observed by TESS
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01017

PlanetEvidence: Planet or Noise?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01232

Fourier series for eclipses on exoplanet binaries
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01298

An apparently eccentric orbit of the exoplanet WASP-12 b as a radial velocity signature of planetary-induced tides in the host star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01360

Effects of the general relativistic spin precessions on the habitability of rogue planets orbiting supermassive black holes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01518

Habitability on local, Galactic and cosmological scales
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01569

December 3, 2019 updates

Multidimensional Habitability: Exploring the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
https://www.academia.edu/33461406/Multidimensional_Habitability_Exploring_the_Possibility_of_Life_Beyond_Earth

No Snowball Cycles at the Outer Edge of the Habitable Zone for Habitable Tidally Locked Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab5957

The Structure and Stability of Extended, Inclined Circumplanetary Disk or Ring Systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00034

A sub-Neptune sized planet transiting the M2.5-dwarf G 9-40: Validation with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00291

Mutual Orbital Inclinations Between Cold Jupiters and Inner Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.00387