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 2, 2019 updates

Detection of Na, K and H2O in the hazy atmosphere of WASP-6b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12628

Modeling the Thermal Bulge of A Hot Jupiter with the Two-Stream Approximation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12687

Machine learning inference of the interior structure of low-mass exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12745

RefPlanets: Search for reflected light from extra-solar planets with SPHERE/ZIMPOL
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12759

THOR 2.0: Major Improvements to the Open-Source General Circulation Model
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13158

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets. XVII. A compact planetary system in a near 3:2 mean motion resonance chain
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.13296

November 28, 2019 updates

Mission Analysis and Optimal Control for Cislunar Mission with Spinning Tether System in Hyperbolic Orbits
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576519314316

OGLE-2016-BLG-1227L: A Wide-separation Planet from a Very Short-timescale Microlensing Event
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11953

The Pan-Pacific Planet Search. VIII. Complete results and the occurrence rate of planets around low-luminosity giants
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11954

Exoplanet Vision 2050
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12114

Interstellar Asteroid Rotation with the Mechanical Torque Produced by Interstellar Medium
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12228

November 26, 2019 updates

Survivability of Anhydrobiotic Cyanobacteria in Salty Ice: Implications for the Habitability of Icy Worlds
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/9/4/86

Formation of compact systems of super-Earths via dynamical instabilities and giant impacts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10277

Prospects for Directly Imaging Young Giant Planets at Optical Wavelengths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10585

Different types of star-planet interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10915

Estimating Planetary Mass with Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11035

An Arc-Length Approximation For Elliptical Orbits
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.10584