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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April 9, 2019 updates

Lessons from early Earth: UV surface radiation should not limit the habitability of active M star systems
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/485/4/5598/5426502

Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Key Insights, Challenges and Prospects
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03190

Orbital relaxation and excitation of planets tidally interacting with white dwarfs
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03195

The Impact of Stellar Surface Magnetoconvection and Oscillations on the Detection of Temperate, Earth-Mass Planets Around Sun-Like Stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03200

The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Different roads to radii and masses of the target stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03231

Exoplanet atmospheres with GIANO II. Detection of molecular absorption in the dayside spectrum of HD 102195b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04170

April 8, 2019 updates

Efficient Searches for Galactic Stream Interstellar Asteroids
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330765570_Efficient_Searches_for_Galactic_Stream_Interstellar_Asteroids

A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: CO and H2 as Potential Antibiosignatures
https://liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1835

Detectability of atmospheric features of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone around M dwarfs
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/04/aa34504-18/aa34504-18.html

K 2 Ultracool Dwarfs Survey. V. High superflare rates on rapidly rotating late-M dwarfs
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/mnras/stz886/5427921

Revisiting the Biological Ramifications of Variations in Earth’s Magnetic Field
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab12eb

How stars and planets interact: A look through the high‐energy window
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913619

Exocometary Science
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02715

Identifying Exoplanets with Deep Learning III: Automated Triage and Vetting of TESS Candidates
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02726

MASCARA-4 b/bRing-1b – A retrograde hot Jupiter around the bright A3V star HD 85628
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02733

April 5, 2019 updates

The sub-Jupiter/Neptune desert of exoplanets: parameter dependent boundaries and implications on planet formation
https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article-abstract/485/1/L116/5427910

Evidence against non-gravitational acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02218

Exciting mutual inclination in planetary systems with a distant stellar companion: the case of Kepler-108
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02290

Evaluating Climate Variability Of The Canonical Hot Jupiters Hd 189733b & Hd 209458b Through Multi-epoch Eclipse Observations
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02294

April 4, 2019 updates

Nonthermal Emission from the Interaction of Magnetized Exoplanets with the Wind of Their Host Star
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab108d

The vast potential of exoplanet satellites for high‐energy astrophysics
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.201913615

A possibly inflated planet around the bright, young star DS Tuc A
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01591

High-precision analysis of binary stars with planets. I. Searching for condensation temperature trends in the HD 106515 system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01955

Storms or Systematics? The changing secondary eclipse depth of WASP-12b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01973

Climate of an Ultra hot Jupiter: Spectroscopic phase curve of WASP-18b with HST/WFC3
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02069

Characterization of Exoplanet Atmospheres with the Optical Coronagraph on WFIRST
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08964

April 3, 2019 updates

Theoretical Reflectance Spectra of Earth-Like Planets through Their Evolutions: Impact of Clouds on the Detectability of Oxygen, Water, and Methane with Future Direct Imaging Missions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01019

Extreme hydrodynamic losses of Earth-like atmospheres in the habitable zones of very active stars
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01063

Stellar Characterization Necessary to Define Holistic Planetary Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01089

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Elements in Astrobiology: From Stars to Planets to Life
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01092

Detecting exoplanets with FAST?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01239

The influence of general-relativity effects, dynamical tides and collisions on planet-planet scattering close to the star
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01420

Three new massive planets and two low mass brown dwarfs at separation larger than 5 AU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01573

Advanced Aspects of the Galactic Habitability
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01062