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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November 25, 2019 updates

Hyper-SETI–A New Way of Searching for Extraterrestrial Iintelligence
https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/ifex/2019/IAC-19_A4_1_13_x48686_full_paper.pdf

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Propellantless Propulsion
http://www.pioneerastro.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Dipole-Drive-A-New-Concept-in-Propellantless-Propulsion.pdf

Exoplanet atmospheres as indicators of life: From hot gas giants to Earth-like planets
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/204833/factsheet/en

Volcanic activity and the exosphere of HD3167b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09916

Atmospheric Characterization and Further Orbital Modeling of κ And b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09758

November 22, 2019 updates

Systematic simulations of FFP scattering by a star–planet pair
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10569-019-9931-3

A Search for Multiplanet Systems with TESS Using a Bayesian N-body Retrieval and Machine Learning
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab4e1c

Simulated Direct Imaging Detection of Water Vapor For Exo-Earths
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab5964

The Orbit of WASP-12b is Decaying
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09131

A mirage of the cosmic shoreline: Venus-like clouds as a statistical false positive for exoplanet atmospheric erosion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09132

Detecting and Characterizing Water Vapor in the Atmospheres of Earth Analogs through Observation of the 0.94 Micron Feature in Reflected Light
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09211

Exploring Whether Super-Puffs Can Be Explained as Ringed Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09673

November 21, 2019 updates

TARdYS: Design and prototype of an exoplanet hunter for TAO using a R6 Echelle grating
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10686-019-09642-y

Cosmic biology in perspective
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3698-6

Impact of Clouds and Hazes on the Simulated JWST Transmission Spectra of Habitable Zone Planets in the TRAPPIST-1 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08596

NASA Probe Study Report: Farside Array for Radio Science Investigations of the Dark ages and Exoplanets (FARSIDE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08649

A super-solar metallicity atmosphere for WASP-127b revealed by transmission spectroscopy from HST and Spitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08859

Revised mass-radius relationships for water-rich terrestrial planets beyond the runaway greenhouse limit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08878

November 20, 2019 updates

NASA Takes a Cue From Silicon Valley to Hatch Artificial Intelligence Technologies
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-takes-a-cue-from-silicon-valley-to-hatch-artificial-intelligence-technologies

Spain has permits to build giant telescope blocked in Hawaii
https://phys.org/news/2019-11-spain-giant-telescope-blocked-hawaii.html

The Search for Planet and Planetesimal Transits of White Dwarfs with the Zwicky Transient Facility
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07889

A Holistic and Probabilistic Approach to the Ground-based Data of HAT-P-19 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07903

Stability of exoplanetary systems retrieved from scalar time series
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07957

Transit Timing Variations of Five Transiting Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08331

ROME (Radio Observations of Magnetized Exoplanets). II. HD 189733 Does Not Accrete Significant Material from its Exoplanet like a T Tauri Star from A Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08357

Emergence of life in an inflationary universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08092

November 19, 2019 updates

Free-floating planets in the Milky Way
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40065-019-0267-3

3D Modeling of absorption by various species for hot jupiter HD209458b
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3211/5628332

High-resolution reflection spectra for Proxima b and Trappist-1e models for ELT observations
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3213/5628343

Obliquity Evolution of Circumstellar Planets in Sun-like Stellar Binaries
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab46b5

When is chemical disequilibrium in Earth-like planetary atmospheres a biosignature versus an anti-biosignature? Disequilibria from dead to living worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06852

Periodic transit timing variations and refined system parameters of the exoplanet XO-6b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07054

An extremely low-density and temperate giant exoplanet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07355

Asteroseismology of the Multiplanet
System K2-93
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07519

Know thy star, know thy planet: Chemo-kinematically characterizing TESS targets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.07825