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 7, 2019 updates

New constraints on the HR 8799 planetary system from mid-infrared direct imaging
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz3117/5614511

Habitable Zone Boundaries for Circumbinary Planets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab50cb

TOI-132 b: A short-period planet in the Neptune desert transiting a V=11.3 G-type star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02012

The Feasibility of Directly Imaging Nearby Cold Jovian Planets with MIRI/JWST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02022

The origin of the high metallicity of close-in giant exoplanets: Combined effect of the resonant and aerodynamic shepherding
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02292

Transmission Spectroscopy of WASP-79b from 0.6 to 5.0 μm
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02051

OGLE-2015-BLG-1771Lb: A Microlens Planet Orbiting an Ultracool Dwarf?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02439

The Dynamics of Interstellar Asteroids and Comets within the Galaxy: an Assessment of Local Candidate Source Regions for
1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02473

November 6, 2019 updates

Electric Sail Propulsion for Deep Space Missions
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20190032324.pdf

Life on Venus and the interplanetary transfer of biota from Earth
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3678-x

2I/Borisov: A C2-depleted interstellar comet
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2019/11/aa36959-19/aa36959-19.html

Identifiable Acetylene Features Predicted for Young Earth-like Exoplanets with Reducing Atmospheres undergoing Heavy Bombardment
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01643

Wind erosion on Mars and other small terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01692

November 5, 2019 updates

A Full Implementation of Spectro-perfectionism for Precise Radial Velocity Exoplanet Detection: A Test Case With the MINERVA Reduction Pipeline
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ab4103

Multi-planet disc interactions in binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00520

Collapse of the general circulation in shortwave-absorbing atmospheres: an idealized model study
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00629

The Effect of Clouds as an Additional Opacity Source on the Inferred Metallicity of Giant Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01191

November 4, 2019 updates

A Bundle of Sticks in Zero G: Non-State Actor Mining Rights for Celestial Bodies
https://www.swlaw.edu/sites/default/files/2019-09/6.%20Lewis_393-412_JIL_v25n2.pdf

The SpaceDrive Project -Overview of Revolutionary Propulsion Efforts at TU Dresden
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336824506_The_SpaceDrive_Project_-Overview_of_Revolutionary_Propulsion_Efforts_at_TU_Dresden

Characterization of a Rotational Thrust Balance for Propellantless Propulsion Concepts Utilizing Magnetic Levitation with Superconductors
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335995569_Characterization_of_a_Rotational_Thrust_Balance_for_Propellantless_Propulsion_Concepts_Utilizing_Magnetic_Levitation_with_Superconductors

A limbus mundi elucidation of habitability: the Goldilocks Edge
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13336

Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Flows at High Resolution
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00084

Ionized calcium in the atmospheres of two ultra-hot exoplanets WASP-33b and KELT-9b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.00380

November 1, 2019 updates

Giant Magellan Telescope signs contract for telescope structure
https://spacenewsfeed.com/index.php/news/3939-giant-magellan-telescope-signs-contract-for-telescope-structure

Optimal Steering Law of Refractive Sail
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117719307835

Molecular kinetic simulations of transient perturbations in a planet’s upper atmosphere
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103519301964

Photon-Sail Trajectory Optimization in Alpha Centauri using Evolutionary Neurocontrol
https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:0d5ccff2-42b9-43cc-9735-3ad6bd27bfb1

A Simple Multi-Pass Side-Pumping Scheme for Solar Powered Lasers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334953452_A_Simple_Multi-Pass_Side-Pumping_Scheme_for_Solar_Powered_Lasers

Principles Of Heliophysics: a textbook on the universal processes behind planetary habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.14022