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 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

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