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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December 11, 2019 updates

Searching for a standard Drake equation
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01783

Planetary Astrobiology
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/planetary-astrobiology

The Helical Engine
http://people.uncw.edu/ganl/phy335/project/group-A/Calton-Landon.pdf

The Young Suns Exoplanet Survey: Detection of a wide orbit planetary mass companion to a solar-type Sco-Cen member
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04284

Upper Limits on Planet Occurrence around Ultracool Dwarfs with K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04286

Constraining Orbital Periods from Nonconsecutive Observations: Period Estimates for Long-Period Planets in Six Systems Observed by K2 During Multiple Campaigns
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04287

Constraints on Aquatic Photosynthesis for Terrestrial Planets Around Other Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04301

The Influence of Stellar Contamination on the Interpretation of Near Infrared Transmission Spectra of Sub-Neptune Worlds around M-Dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04389

December 10, 2019 updates

The Exoplanets Channel
https://exoplanetschannel.wixsite.com/home

Water Vapor and Clouds on the Habitable-zone Sub-Neptune Exoplanet K2-18b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab59dc

FLAMINGOS-2 Infrared Photometry of 2I/Borisov
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab5f69

Future stellar flybys of the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03503

The circumstellar environment of 55 Cnc: The super-Earth 55 Cnc e as a primary target for star-planet interactions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03736

Star-planet interaction through spectral lines
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03778

KMT-2019-BLG-0842Lb: A Cold Planet Below the Uranus/Sun Mass Ratio
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03822

December 9, 2019 updates

How to Find an Interstellar Comet: A Q&A with Discoverer Gennady Borisov
https://www.space.com/interstellar-comet-borisov-discoverer-interview-gennady-borisov.html

The Trans-Neptunian Solar System (Chapters 15 and 16)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128164907/the-trans-neptunian-solar-system

Stellar engines: Design considerations for maximizing acceleration
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576519312457

XO-7 b: A transiting hot Jupiter with a massive companion on a wide orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02821

Habitable Age Instead of Location for Terrestrial Worlds
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02862

December 6, 2019 updates

Atmospheric dynamics in high obliquity planets
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0019103518305906

The dynamical history of the evaporating or disrupted ice giant planet around white dwarf WD J0914+1914
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02199

Signatures of Clouds in Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Modeled High Resolution Emission Spectra from 3D General Circulation Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02268

O2- and CO-Rich Atmospheres for Potentially Habitable Environments on TRAPPIST-1 Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02313

Cold giant planets evaporated by hot white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02345

A Linear Formation Flying Astronomical Interferometer in Low Earth Orbit
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02350

Superabundance of Exoplanet Sub-Neptunes Explained by Fugacity Crisis
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02701

Wind of Change: retrieving exoplanet atmospheric winds from high-resolution spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02787

Interstellar communication network. I. Overview and assumptions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02616

December 5, 2019 updates

Testing exoplanet evaporation with multi-transiting systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01609

Impact of Binary Stars on Planet Statistics — I. Planet Occurrence Rates, Trends with Stellar Mass, and Wide Companions to Hot Jupiter Hosts
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01699

Cool Jupiters greatly outnumber their toasty siblings: Occurrence rates from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.01821

Evolution of the radius valley around low mass stars from Kepler and K2
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02170