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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August 20, 2019 updates

DMPP-2: The radial velocity discovery of a giant planet orbiting a bright pulsating star
http://physics.open.ac.uk/~ajnorton/papers/DMPP2.pdf

Planet formation and stability in polar circumbinary discs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa33976-18/aa33976-18.html

OGLE-2018-BLG-1011Lb,c: Microlensing Planetary System with Two Giant Planets Orbiting a Low-mass Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2f74

The impact of stripped cores on the frequency of Earth-size planets in the habitable zone
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06192

Homogeneous Analysis of Hot Earths: Masses, Sizes, and Compositions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06299

Impact of planetary mass uncertainties on exoplanet atmospheric retrievals
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06305

Orbital dynamics of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06331

Mini-magnetospheres and Moon-magnetosphere interactions: Overview Moon-magnetosphere Interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06446

Erosion of an exoplanetary atmosphere caused by stellar winds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06695

An independent analysis of the Spitzer/IRAC phase curves of WASP43 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06741

Inflation deployed torus-shaped solar sail accelerated via thermal desorption of coating
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06761

August 19, 2019 updates

Absence of a thick atmosphere on the terrestrial exoplanet LHS 3844b
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1497-4

Evidence for an additional planet in the β Pictoris system
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0857-1

Enabling a Near-Term Interstellar Probe with the Space Launch System
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4048

The Dipole Drive: A New Concept in Space Propulsion
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-1122

An Examination of Warp Theory and Technology to Determine the State of the Art and Feasibility
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4288

Development of a pulse-recharge magnetic nozzle for PuFF
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-4284

Numerical Simulation of Laser and Particle Coupled Beam Propagation
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-3803

Performance Analysis of a Combined Laser and Neutral Particle Beam Propulsion Concept Based on Self-Guiding
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/6.2019-3800

High-resolution Imaging Transit Photometry of Kepler-13AB
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab2f7b

A never-ending story in the sky: The secrets of chemical evolution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064519300958

The SpaceDrive project – Thrust balance development and new measurements of the Mach-Effect and EMDrive Thrusters
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009457651832071X

Simulations of starspot anomalies within TESS exoplanetary transit light curves — I. The detection limits of starspot anomalies in TESS light curves
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05747

The Kepler Peas in a Pod Pattern is Astrophysical
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05833

Inner Edge of Habitable Zones for Earth-sized Planets with Various Surface Water Distributions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05909

Habitability of galaxies and application of merger trees in astrobiology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05935

The Search for Living Worlds and the Connection to Our Cosmic Origins
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05951

Astrometric planet search around southern ultracool dwarfs IV. Relative motion of the FORS2/VLT CCD chips
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06056

August 15, 2019 updates

Different Is More: The Value of Finding an Inhabited Planet That Is Far from Earth2.0
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1833

Assessing the Intrinsic Uncertainty and Structural Stability of Planetary Models: 1) Parameterized Thermal‐Tectonic History Models
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JE005918

Constraining the Formation of the Four Terrestrial Planets in the Solar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04934

Linking the Solar System and Extrasolar Planetary Systems with Radar Astronomy: Infrastructure for “Ground Truth” Comparison
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05171

Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: Number of Potentially Habitable Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06784

August 15, 2019 updates

Telescopes in Hawaii reopen after deal with protesters
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/telescopes-hawaii-reopen-after-deal-protesters

Follow That Planet! How Astronomers Chase New Worlds in TESS Data
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/follow-that-planet-how-astronomers-chase-new-worlds-in-tess-data

Kepler Object of Interest Network III. Kepler-82f: a new non-transiting 21 M⊕ planet from photodynamical modelling
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/08/aa35879-19/aa35879-19.html

Viscosity and Prandtl Number of Warm Dense Water as in Ice Giant Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab2d21

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by Fractal Universe
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221137971931736X

Earth as an Exoplanet: A Two-dimensional Alien Map
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04350

Homogeneously derived transit timings for 17 exoplanets and reassessed TTV trends for WASP-12 and WASP-4
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04505

Lack of close-in, massive planets of main-sequence A-type stars from Kepler
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04570

Catalog for the ESPRESSO blind radial velocity exoplanet survey
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04627

Red Dots: A temperate 1.5 Earth-mass planet in a compact multi-terrestrial planet system around GJ1061
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04717