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 18, 2019 updates

Telescope Technology Needs for HabEx and LUVOIR
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190032599.pdf

Extremophiles: a special or general case in the search for extra-terrestrial life?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01144-1

Circumbinary Planetary Systems in the Solar Neighborhood: Stability and Habitability
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063773719080097

NASA Instrument to Probe Planet Clouds on European Mission
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-instrument-to-probe-planet-clouds-on-european-mission

Unravelling the neural network of torpor
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-10-unravelling-neural-network-torpor.html

Hibernation
https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/projects/hibernation.html

HyDRA-H: Simultaneous Hybrid Retrieval of Exoplanetary Emission Spectra
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab4efc

Toward a More Complex Description of Chemical Profiles in Exoplanet Retrievals: A Two-layer Parameterization
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a14

New aluminium hydroxide at multimegabar pressures: Implications for water reservoirs in deep planetary interiors
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518306274

CEESA meets machine learning: A Constant Elasticity Earth Similarity Approach to habitability and classification of exoplanets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213133719300319

Idealised simulations of the deep atmosphere of hot jupiters: Deep, hot, adiabats as a robust solution to the radius inflation problem
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06546

Revisited Mass-Radius relations for exoplanets below 120 Earth masses
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04745

November 15, 2019 updates

Zodiacal Exoplanets in Time (ZEIT) IX: a flat transmission spectrum and a highly eccentric orbit for the young Neptune K2-25b as revealed by Spitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05744

Investigating the Planet-Metallicity Correlation for Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05830

Pre-discovery Activity of New Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Beyond 5 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05902

Sublimation of Water Ice from a Population of Large, Long-Lasting Grains Near the Nucleus of 2I/Borisov?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06271

Information in the Reflected Light Spectra of Widely Separated Giant Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06274

Electric sails are potentially more effective than light sails near
most stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02765

November 14, 2019 updates

Search for stellar companions of exoplanet host stars by exploring the second ESA-Gaia data release

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/490/4/5088/5622591

Dusty phenomena in the vicinity of giant exoplanets
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/11/aa36521-19/aa36521-19.html

TESS Reveals HD 118203 b to be a Transiting Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05150

WASP-52b. The effect of starspot correction on atmospheric retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05179

TOI-677 b: A Warm Jupiter (P=11.2d) on an eccentric orbit transiting a late F-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05574

Constraining the magnitude of climate extremes from time-varying instellation on a circumbinary terrestrial planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05577

How to Characterize Habitable Worlds and Signs of Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05597

November 13, 2019 Updates

The Dynamics of Interstellar Asteroids and Comets within the Galaxy: an Assessment of Local Candidate Source Regions for 1I/Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02473

Advanced curation of astromaterials for planetary science
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0615-9

Design and Optimization of Power Sources for
Deep Space Missions
https://www.ijresm.com/Vol.2_2019/Vol2_Iss10_October19/IJRESM_V2_I10_174.pdf

Hyperbolic Orbits in the Solar System: Interstellar Origin or Perturbed Oort Cloud Comets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04524

The Compositional Diversity of Low-Mass Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04598

HD 117214 debris disk: scattered light images and constraints on the presence of planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04793

Gravity-Darkening Analysis of Misaligned Hot Jupiter MASCARA-4 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05025

November 12, 2018 updates

Incorporating Lessons from Geoarchaeology and Geoforensics into the Search for Non-Terrestrial Agnostic Biosignatures
https://agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon19/mediafile/ExtendedAbstract/Paper482099/2019_AGU_AbSciCon_Submission_McGeeBW.pdf

Engineered Exogenesis: Nature’s Model for Interstellar Colonization
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/11/01/engineered-exogenesis-natures-model-for-interstellar-colonization/

Host Star Dependence of Small Planet Mass-Radius Distributions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03579

A Joint Mass-Radius-Period Distribution of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03582

A TESS Search for Distant Solar System Objects: Yield Estimates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03676

Dust in brown dwarfs and extra-solar planets. VII. Cloud formation in diffusive atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03777

Multilayer Perceptron and Geometric Albedo Spectra for Quick Parameter Estimations of Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03997

Exoplanet Imitators: A test of stellar activity behavior in radial velocity signals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04106

Characterizing Exoplanet Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04441