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 11, 2019 updates

Electron cross-field transport mechanism observed under the azimuthally inhomogeneous neutral supply in a Hall thruster
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336231329

PEXO: a global modeling framework for nanosecond timing, microsecond astrometry, and μm/s radial velocities
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01750

ROME/REA: A Gravitational Microlensing Search for Exoplanets Beyond the Snow Line on a Global Network of Robotic Telescopes
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab3b19

Four newborn planets transiting the young solar analog V1298 Tau
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04563

The Fast Atmospheric Self-Coherent Camera Technique: Laboratory Results and Future Directions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04554

October 10, 2019 updates

A PSF-based Approach to TESS High quality data Of Stellar clusters (PATHOS) — I. Search for exoplanets and variable stars in the field of 47 Tuc
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03592

In the Presence of a Wrecking Ball: Orbital Stability in the HR 5183 System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03626

Breakthrough Listen Follow-up of the Random Transiter (EPIC 249706694/HD 139139) with the Green Bank Telescope
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03711

Stability of Nitrogen in Planetary Atmospheres in Contact with Liquid Water
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04111

October 9, 2019 updates

The space-soup theory of life: Tiny primordial soups on interstellar dust
https://figshare.com/articles/The_space_soup_theory_of_life_Tiny_primordial_soups_on_interstellar_dust/1340126

NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/2192-ssc2019-14-NASA-Gets-a-Rare-Look-at-a-Rocky-Exoplanet-s-Surface

The Possible Astrometric Signature of a Planetary-mass Companion to the Nearby Young Star TW Piscis Austrini (Fomalhaut B): Constraints from Astrometry, Radial Velocities, and Direct Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02965

Carbon Chain Depletion of 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03222

Climates of Warm Earth-Like Planets III: Fractional Habitability from a Water Cycle Perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03479

Using HARPS-N to characterise the long-period planets in the PH-2 and Kepler-103 systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03518

October 8, 2019 updates

A Ghost in the Toast: TESS Background Light Produces a False “Transit” Across τ Ceti
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab49ff

Analyzing Eight Years of Transiting Exoplanet Observations Using WFC3’s Spatial Scan Monito
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02073

Climate Diversity in the Habitable Zone due to Varying pN2 Levels
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02355

Initial Characterization of Interstellar Comet 2I/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02547

October 7, 2019 updates

Biosignatures Search in Habitable Planets
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/7/4/82

The Search for Planets Around Other Stars: An Introductory Resource Guide for College Instructors
https://www.academia.edu/24164361/The_Search_for_Planets_Around_Other_Stars_An_Introductory_Resource_Guide_for_College_Instructors

Detection of He I 10830 Å~ absorption during the transit of a warm Neptune around the M-dwarf GJ 3470 with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02070