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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June 19, 2019 updates

Breakthrough Listen Publishes Most Comprehensive and Sensitive Search for Radio Technosignatures Ever Performed
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/25

Breakthrough Listen Open Data Archive
http://seti.berkeley.edu/opendata

The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Public Data, Formats, Reduction and Archiving
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07391

Orbital Stability and Precession Effects in the Kepler-89 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07193

Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models: I. from cyclostrophic super-rotation to geostrophic turbulence
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07561

Comparative terrestrial atmospheric circulation regimes in simplified global circulation models: II. energy budgets and spectral transfers
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07595

Signatures of Obliquity in Thermal Phase Curves of Hot Jupiters
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07615

On the Habitability of Teegarden’s Star planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07704

June 18, 2019 updates

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Two temperate Earth-mass planet candidates around Teegarden’s Star
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935460

A pair of temperate sub-Neptunes transiting the star EPIC 212737443
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1641/5519234

Termination of an inward migration of a gap-opening planet triggered by dust feedback
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06338

Empirical Predictions for the Period Distribution of Planets to be Discovered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06795

Impact of Stellar Superflares on Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06797

Can we detect aurora in exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07089

June 17, 2019 updates

Near-term interstellar probe: First step
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576519303650

How Flares regulate Atmospheric Losses from the TRAPPIST-1 planets
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019AAS…23411302D/abstract

Starshade Would Take Formation Flying to Extremes
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/starshade-would-take-formation-flying-to-extremes

How NASA’s Spitzer Has Stayed Alive for So Long
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/how-nasas-spitzer-has-stayed-alive-for-so-long

On the enlargement of habitable zones around binary stars in hostile environments
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnrasl/slz082/5511792

Complex macroscale structures formed by the shock processing of amino acids and nucleobases — Implications to the Origins of life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05958

An emission spectrum for WASP-121b measured across the 0.8-1.1 micron wavelength range using the Hubble Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.06326

June 14, 2019 Updates

The escape of hydrogen-rich atmosphere of exoplanet: Mass loss rates and the absorptions of stellar Lyman α
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05520

The HD 181433 Planetary System: Dynamics and a New Orbital Solution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05525

Atmospheric Dynamics on Terrestrial Planets: The Seasonal Response to changes in Orbital, Rotational and Radiative Timescales
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05748

Effects of a Binary Companion Star on Habitability of Tidally Locked Planets around an M-type Host Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05844

Exoplanet Reflected-light Spectroscopy with PICASO
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1b51

The 3D secular dynamics of radial-velocity-detected planetary systems
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/06/aa34896-18/aa34896-18.html

June 13, 2019 Updates

Mass Loss from the Exoplanet WASP-12b Inferred from Spitzer Phase Curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04742

Disentangling Planets from Photoelectric Instability in Gas-Rich Optically Thin Dusty Disks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04816

The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Giant Planet and Brown Dwarf Demographics from 10 to 100 au
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab16e9

A Thousand Earths: A Very Large Aperture, Ultralight Space Telescope Array for Atmospheric Biosignature Surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05079

A self-consistent weak friction model for the tidal evolution of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05195

On The XUV Luminosity Evolution of TRAPPIST-1
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05250

MASCARA-3b: A hot Jupiter transiting a bright F7 star in an aligned orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05254

Positron propulsion for Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel
http://jbis.org.uk/paper/2019.72.110