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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September 13, 2019 updates

Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor
https://www.space.com/possible-interstellar-comet-identified.html

MPEC 2019-R106 : Comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov)
https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K19/K19RA6.html

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05851

Fast and precise light curve model for transiting exoplanets with rings
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz2556/5568385

Radial velocity confirmation of K2-100b: a young, highly irradiated, and low density transiting hot Neptune
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05252

An Integrable Model for the Dynamics of Planetary Mean Motion Resonances
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05264

September 12, 2019 updates

Water vapour in the atmosphere of the habitable-zone eight-Earth-mass planet K2-18 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05218

He I λ 10 830 Å in the transmission spectrum of HD209458 b
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/09/aa35979-19/aa35979-19.html

Wōtan: Comprehensive Time-series Detrending in Python
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3984

Keck Observations Confirm a Super-Jupiter Planet Orbiting M-dwarf OGLE-2005-BLG-071L
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04740

OGLE-2018-BLG-1700L: Microlensing Planet in Binary Stellar System
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04854

The potassium absorption on HD189733b and HD209458b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04884

Uranus and Neptune: Origin, Evolution and Internal Structure
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04891

September 11, 2019 updates

The Climates of Other Worlds: A Review of the Emerging Field of Exoplanet Climatology
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04046

Dynamical Interactions in the Planetary System GJ4276
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04059

Model of the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence with Coronagraphic Imaging
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04128

No further evidence for a transiting inner companion to the hot Jupiter HATS-50b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04389

Revisiting MOA 2013 BLG-220L: A Solar-type star with a super-Jupiter companion
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04444

ODEA: Orbital Dynamics in a complex Evolving Architecture — Application to the planetary system HD 106906
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04536

The Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer: Demonstrating advanced exoplanet characterization techniques for future extremely large telescopes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04541

Water Vapor on the Habitable-Zone Exoplanet K2-18b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04642

September 10, 2019 updates

Angles-Only EKF Navigation for Hyperbolic Flybys
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7608/

Is Interstellar Travel Really Possible?
https://www.space.com/is-interstellar-travel-possible.html

Parameterizing the Search Space of Starshade Fuel Costs for Optimal Observation Schedules
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.G003747

2.5-D retrieval of atmospheric properties from exoplanet phase curves: Application to WASP-43b observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03233

Eigenvectors, Circulation and Linear Instabilities for Planetary Science in 3 Dimensions (ECLIPS3D)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03722

September 9, 2019 updates

Measuring the Orbital Parameters of Radial Velocity Systems in Mean-motion Resonance: A Case Study of HD 200964
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3b02

Searching for Wide Companions and Identifying Circum(sub)stellar Disks through PSF Fitting of Spitzer/IRAC Archival Images
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab32e6

Detection of Hundreds of New Planet Candidates and Eclipsing Binaries in K2 Campaigns 0–8
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ab346b

Oceanographic Constraints on Exoplanet Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02928

TESS observations of the WASP-121 b phase curve
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03000

Optical phase curve of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03010