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 5, 2019 Updates

Detection of ammonia on Pluto’s surface in a region of geologically recent tectonism
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaav5731

Surface properties of large TNOs: Expanding the study to longer wavelengths with the James Webb Space Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12320

Effects of dust evolution on protoplanetary disks in the mid-infrared
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/06/aa34365-18/aa34365-18.html

Review on Solar Sail Technology
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-019-0038-x

Two accreting protoplanets around the young star PDS 70
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0780-5

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

June 4, 2019 Updates

TechDemoSat-1 deploys drag sail
http://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3254-techdemosat-1-deploys-drag-sail

Two accreting protoplanets around the young star PDS 70
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0780-5

Testing gravity with interstellar precursor missions
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1508/5510438

Planet seeding through gas-assisted capture of interstellar objects
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz1505/5510437

Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager Non-redundant Mask and Spectroscopy of Two Close-separation Binaries: HR 2690 and HD 142527
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab17db

The protoplanetary disc of HD 163296 as observed by ALMA
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11868

June 3, 2019 Updates

Long Range Plasma Momentum Coupling by High Voltage Static Electric field and Deep Space Exploration 2
https://www.ann-geophys-discuss.net/angeo-2019-41/

The non-destructive separation of diverse astrobiologically relevant organic molecules by customizable capillary zone electrophoresis and monolithic capillary electrochromatography
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1473550419000065

Host Stars and their Effects on Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030114510

Titan as Revealed by the Cassini Radar
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-019-0598-6

Fast radio bursts
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00159-019-0116-6

Exoplanet has rare earths
https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atz114

TESS spots first Earth-size exoplanet
https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atz123

A Hot Saturn Orbiting an Oscillating Late Subgiant Discovered by TESS
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1488

May 30, 2019 updates

Interstellar Workshop on 20-21 June 2019
https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/news/2019-05-08-interstellar_exploration_workshop.html

A New View of Exoplanets With NASA’s Upcoming Webb Telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/a-new-view-of-exoplanets-with-nasa-s-webb-telescope

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Emerges Successfully from Final Thermal Vacuum Test
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope-emerges-successfully-from-final-thermal-vacuum-test

Examining the Radius Valley: a Machine Learning Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12048

Carbon cycling and interior evolution of water-covered plate tectonics and stagnant lid planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12392

Atmospheric characterization of the ultra-hot Jupiter MASCARA-2b/KELT-20b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12491

Revisiting the pulsational characteristics of the exoplanet host star β Pictoris
https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12545