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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July 29, 2019 updates

Coronagraphic phase diversity through residual turbulence: performance study and experimental validation
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1986/5538847

A Possible Scenario for the Random Transiter EPIC 249706694/HD 139139
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab346a

Calibration of quasi-static aberrations in exoplanet direct-imaging instruments with a Zernike phase-mask sensor. III. On-sky validation in VLT/SPHERE
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11241

OGLE-2015-BLG-1649Lb: A gas giant planet around a low-mass dwarf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11536

WASP-South hot Jupiters: WASP-178b, WASP-184b, WASP-185b & WASP-192b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11667

July 26, 2019 updates

Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Applications for the In Situ Measurement of Nonvolatile Organics at Ocean Worlds
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1961

NASA’s TESS Mission Completes First Year of Survey, Turns to Northern Sky
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-tess-mission-completes-first-year-of-survey-turns-to-northern-sky

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b – Detection of CaII, FeII, NaI, and the Balmer series of H (Hα, Hβ, and Hγ) with high-dispersion transit spectroscopy
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa35623-19/aa35623-19.html

The runaway greenhouse radius inflation effect – An observational diagnostic to probe water on Earth-sized planets and test the habitable zone concept
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa35585-19/aa35585-19.html

K2-146: Discovery of Planet c, Precise Masses from Transit Timing, and Observed Precession
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10620

Setting the Stage for the Planet Formation Imager
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10663

Detection of Hundreds of New Planet Candidates and Eclipsing Binaries in K2 Campaigns 0-8
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10806

The Bio-habitable Zone and atmospheric properties for Planets of Red Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11098

Classifying Exoplanet Candidates with Convolutional Neural Networks: Application to the Next Generation Transit Survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11109

It takes two planets in resonance to tango around K2-146
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11141

July 25, 2019 updates

Obliquity Evolution of the Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Kepler-62f
https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.08052

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG XIX. Atmospheric Rossiter-McLaughlin effect and improved parameters of KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10078

Revisiting Kepler-444 Part I. Seismic modelling and inversions of stellar structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10315

Dynamical evolution of close-in super-earths tidally interacting with its host star near spin-orbit resonances. The case of Kepler-21 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10575

July 24, 2019 updates

Deciphering Biosignatures in Planetary Contexts
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1903

KELT-23Ab: A Hot Jupiter Transiting a Near-solar Twin Close to the TESS and JWST Continuous Viewing Zones
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab24c7

EXOFASTv2: A public, generalized, publication-quality exoplanet modeling code
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09480

High-Contrast Testbeds for Future Space-Based Direct Imaging Exoplanet Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09508

The Future of Exoplanet Direct Detection
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09561

A Realistic Roadmap to Formation Flying Space Interferometry
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09583

Multicolour photometry for exoplanet candidate validation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09776

Genetic Algorithms for Starshade Retargeting in Space-Based Telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09789

Orbital Evolution of a Circumbinary Planet in a Gaseous Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09793

Habitability and Spectroscopic Observability of Warm M-dwarf Exoplanets Evaluated with a 3D Chemistry-Climate Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10048