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 30, 2019 updates

New wavelength calibration of the HARPS spectrograph
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/09/aa33272-18/aa33272-18.html

On the Transit Probability of the Habitable-zone Exoplanet GJ 357d
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab3e10

SOAR TESS Survey. I: Sculpting of TESS planetary systems by stellar companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10871

Ingredients for Solar-like Systems: protostar IRAS 16293-2422 B versus comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11290

August 29, 2019 updates

1:1 orbital resonance of circumbinary planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10395

Using Independent Component Analysis to detect exoplanet reflection spectrum from composite spectra of exoplanetary binary systems
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10605

Exoplanet Atmosphere Forecast: Observers Should Expect Spectroscopic Transmission Features to be Muted to 33%
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10669

Remote sensing of exoplanetary atmospheres with ground-based high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10695

Sodium and Potassium Signatures of Volcanic Satellites Orbiting Close-in Gas Giant Exoplanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10732

WASP-169, WASP-171, WASP-175 and WASP-182: three hot Jupiters and one bloated sub-Saturn mass planet discovered by WASP-south
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10388

August 28, 2019 updates

Radial Velocity Discovery of an Eccentric Jovian World Orbiting at 18 au
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09925

Extremophilic models for astrobiology: haloarchaeal survival strategies and pigments for remote sensing
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00792-019-01126-3

Telescope for NASA’s WFIRST Mission Advances to New Phase of Development
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/telescope-for-nasa-s-wfirst-mission-advances-to-new-phase-of-development

An empirical infrared transit spectrum of Earth: opacity windows and biosignatures
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/489/1/196/5552693

Light Curve Analysis of Ground-Based Data from Exoplanets Transit Database
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1384107619300508

Project BMK10k: Zeiss Ballistische Messkammer with a 10k × 10k CCD for ground‐based PLATO support
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913646

From cold to hot irradiated gaseous exoplanets: Fingerprints of chemical disequilibrium in atmospheric spectra
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09847

New thermodynamic constraints on internal, thermal and magnetic states of terrestrial-like Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09871

KMT-2016-BLG-1836Lb: A Super-Jovian Planet From A High-Cadence Microlensing Field
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10011

August 26, 2019 updates

Uniformly hot nightside temperatures on short-period gas giants
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-019-0859-z

Detecting Planets from Direct-imaging Observations Using Common Spatial Pattern Filtering
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab3642

A Real-Time Search for Interstellar Impacts on the Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08543

Estimation of singly-transiting K2 planet periods with Gaia parallaxes
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08548

An 11 Earth-Mass, Long-Period Sub-Neptune Orbiting a Sun-like Star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08585