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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February 7, 2019 updates

Comment on “the ultimate limits of the relativistic rocket equation. The Planck photon rocket”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576518317818

Interlocking, reconfigurable, reconstitutable, reformable cell-based system with nested ring structures
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/64/69/b3/34ca612390a3af/US20190023419A1.pdf

Interlocking, reconfigurable, reconstitutable, reformable cell-based space system
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/43/91/5b/494501958ec00e/US20190023424A1.pdf

astroquery: An Astronomical Web-querying Package in Python
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafc33

Exploring the formation by core accretion and the luminosity evolution of directly-imaged planets: The case of HIP 65426 b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01869

Dark Hole Maintenance and A Posteriori Intensity Estimation in the Presence of Speckle Drift in a High-Contrast Space Coronagraph
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01880

So close, so different: characterization of the K2-36 planetary system with HARPS-N
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01881

The misaligned orbit of the Earth-sized planet Kepler-408b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.02057

February 5, 2019 updates

Two Jovian Planets around the Giant Star HD 202696: A Growing Population of Packed Massive Planetary Pairs around Massive Stars?
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafa11

Surface tide on a rapidly rotating body
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00859

Preliminary models of the outer disk of RU Lup presently showing only four dark gaps
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01222

Correction to: Effect of the rotation and tidal dissipation history of stars on the evolution of close-in planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01283

A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01316

easyaccess: Enhanced SQL command line interpreter for astronomical surveys
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02721

February 4, 2019 updates

Materials Design for Heat Exchangers of Interstellar Solar Thermal Propulsion Missions at Three Solar Radii
https://search.proquest.com/openview/0c0aeed6daf64a02eed899b6713a43ea/

An Upper Limit on He Absorption in GJ 1214b
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab01b8

Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS) – II. A broadened sodium feature on the ultra-hot giant WASP-76b
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00001

Topography of (exo)planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00047

Cloud Atlas: High-Contrast Time-Resolved Observations of Planetary-Mass Companions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00085

A generic frequency dependence for the atmospheric tidal torque of terrestrial planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00280

On the 9:7 Mean Motion Resonance Capture in a System of Two Equal-mass Super-Earths
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00437

February 1, 2019 updates

Rotational Light Curves of Jupiter from Ultraviolet to Mid-infrared and Implications for Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aafba7

Hundreds More Planets Await Discovery in Kepler’s K2 Data Set
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ab01c6

S-Type and P-Type Habitability in Stellar Binary Systems: A Comprehensive Approach III. Results for Mars, Earth, and super-Earth Planets
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11171

Minerva-Australis I: Design, Commissioning, & First Photometric Results
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11231

Predicting multiple planet stability and habitable zone companions in the TESS era
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11297

The Effects of Gravity on the Climate and Circulation of a Terrestrial Planet
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11426

ExPRES: a Tool to Simulate Exoplanetary and Planetary Radio Emissions
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11523