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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April 24, 2019 updates

Theoretical Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres with Hydrocarbon Haze. II. Dependence on UV Irradiation Intensity, Metallicity, C/O Ratio, Eddy Diffusion Coefficient, and Temperature
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09986

First radial velocity results from the MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array (MINERVA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09991

The Heavy-element Content Trend of Planets: A Tracer of their Formation Sites
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10288

WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175 and WASP-182: One bloated sub-Saturn and three hot Jupiters discovered by WASP-south
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10388

April 23, 2019 updates

Interstellar travels aboard radiation powered rockets
https://journals.aps.org/prd/accepted/fe07dQa3Ocd11b24316b3a9841e784ec625ddfacc

An Updated Model for Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the sdB Binary NY Virginis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1139

SETI in Russia, USSR and the post-Soviet space: A century of research
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518318393

Exoplanet Reflected Light Spectroscopy with PICASO
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09355

Vertical Tracer Mixing in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09676

Constraints on a Putative Planet Sculpting the V4046 Sagittarii Circumbinary Disk
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09866

April 18, 2019 updates

Polynesian Civilization and the Future Colonization of Space
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2085&context=ccr

The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets XVIII Three new massive planets and two low mass brown dwarfs at separation larger than 5 AU
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332173182_The_CORALIE_survey_for_southern_extrasolar_planets_XVIII_Three_new_massive_planets_and_two_low_mass_brown_dwarfs_at_separation_larger_than_5_AU

Stellar activity and planetary atmosphere evolution in tight binary star systems
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332494435_Stellar_activity_and_planetary_atmosphere_evolution_in_tight_binary_star_systems

Could there be an undetected inner planet near the stability limit in Kepler-1647?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07929

NGTS-6b: An Ultra Hot-Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-rich star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07997

Linking the evolution of terrestrial interiors and an early outgassed atmosphere to astrophysical observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.08300