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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October 18, 2019 updates

Oxygen fugacities of extrasolar rocks: Evidence for an Earth-like geochemistry of exoplanets
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6463/356

Constraints on the Occurrence and Distribution of 1–20 M Jup Companions to Stars at Separations of 5–5000 au from a Compilation of Direct Imaging Surveys
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab4130

Signatures of a Planet–Planet Impacts Phase in Exoplanetary Systems Hosting Giant Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab4a7b

A Hubble PanCET Study of HAT-P-11b: A Cloudy Neptune with a Low Atmospheric Metallicity
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07523

Transit Signatures of Inhomogeneous Clouds on Hot Jupiters: Insights From Microphysical Cloud Modeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07527

Resilient habitability of nearby exoplanet systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07573

Determining the mass of the planetary candidate HD 114762 b using Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07835

LcTools: A Windows-Based Software System for Finding and Recording Signals in Lightcurves from NASA Space Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08034

Predicting the Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation Environment of Exoplanets Around Low-Mass Stars: GJ 832, GJ 176, GJ 436
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08053

October 17, 2019 updates

Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope
http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/Nobel_Prize_2019.html

Planet2 / RESCEU Symposium 2019: From Protoplanetary Disks through Planetary System Architecture to Planetary Atmospheres and Habitability
http://www.resceu.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/symposium/resceu_sympo2019/

Predictions of Cognitive Detriments from Galactic Cosmic Ray Exposures to Astronauts on Exploration Missions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214552419301221

The interstellar object ‘Oumuamua as a fractal dust aggregate
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07135

A Flexible Bayesian Framework for Assessing Habitability with Joint Observational and Model Constraints
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07137

WASP-South detection of HD219666b transits provides an accurate ephemeris
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07276

October 16, 2019 updates

On‐the‐fly calculation of absorbed and equivalent atmospheric radiation dose in a water phantom with the AtRIS
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JA026622

Capture of interstellar objects: a source of long-period comets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06338

Exporting Terrestrial Life Out of the Solar System with Gravitational Slingshots of Earthgrazing Bodies
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06414

How do Planetary Radius and Gravity Influence the Surface Climate of Earth-like Planets?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06479

Tidally-Induced Radius Inflation of Sub-Neptunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06794

Detection of the nearest Jupiter analog in radial velocity and astrometry data
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06804

Detection of ionized calcium in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06882

Nebula-Relay theory: a new theory about the origin of life on the Earth
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06396

October 15, 2019 updates

Exoclimes V 2019: The Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres, Oxford University
https://www.spacetv.net/exoclimes-v-conference-2019-oxford-university/

Nearly polar orbit of the sub-Neptune HD 3167 c – Constraints on the dynamical history of a multi-planet system
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/11/aa35944-19/aa35944-19.html

Evaporating Planets in SNe Ia
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab4c97

Giant planet occurrence within 0.2 AU of low-luminosity red giant branch stars with K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05346

Circumbinary exoplanets and brown dwarfs with LISA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05414

The Effect of Land Fraction and Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution on the Planetary Albedo of Terrestrial Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05439

Precise radial velocities of giant stars XIII. A second Jupiter orbiting in 4:3 resonance in the 7 CMa system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05853

Asteroseismic Investigation of 20 Planet and Planet-Candidate Host
Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05942

No Snowball on Habitable Tidally Locked Planets with a Dynamic Ocean
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06285

October 14, 2019 updates

Helical Engine
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20190029657

Characterization of a Non-Stationary Spherical Inflated Light Sail for Ultra-Fast Interstellar Travel by Using Commercial 3D Codes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328028194_Characterization_of_a_Non-Stationary_Spherical_Inflated_Light_Sail_for_Ultra-Fast_Interstellar_Travel_by_Using_Commercial_3D_Codes

The Problem of Identifying Possible Signals of Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations in the Framework of the Information-Based Method
https://www.scirp.org/html/1-1721672_95549.htm

Solar sailing technology challenges
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1270963818314391

Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05224